Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., indicated to the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) that they couldn't outright call for things like a general strike amid the coronavirus crisis, but should slowly change public opinion before proposing "alternative structures" for society. "You know, there's a lot of people saying, 'call for a general strike, call for a general strike,'" the freshman congresswoman said during a DSA video event on Tuesday. "The majority of Americans don't know what a general strike is and so our responsibility is to talk about it, expand consciousness about it, and to actually create the conditions in which working people can generate and really exercise their own power, the power that they already have." The New York congresswoman previously told Vice TV that workers should boycott work rather than return to society when the economy reopens. The freshman congresswoman has received a lot of attention for her response to the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic.

Source: Fox News May 06, 2020 22:18 UTC