I think they’d bring guns to their strike. Completely serious.
The strikers began to fight back, killing four mine guards and firing into a separate camp where strikebreakers lived. When the body of a strikebreaker was found nearby, the National Guard’s General Chase ordered the tent colony destroyed in retaliation.
I think they’d bring guns to their strike. Completely serious.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_union_busting_in_the_United_States#Strikebreaking_and_union_busting,_1870s–1935
Yup, and this is what every single protest needs to be doing.
You can be nonviolent, but if you want change, there has to be a very real threat to the status quo.