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Re:Google workers arrested after protesting company's work w... by Animats on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @01:00AM (#40060602)
When that happened in Poland in 1980, the activist workers won.[1] That's one of the places where the downfall of the USSR began.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solidarity_%28Polish_trade_uni...

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Re:Google workers arrested after protesting company's work w... by sakjur on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @02:09AM (#40061038)
The Czechoslovak velvet revolution in 1989 also comes to mind.
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Re:Google workers arrested after protesting company's work w... by dh2022 on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @01:31AM (#40060819)
Oh please. USSR broke to pieces because of internal problems not because some Polish workers locked themselves up in a shipyard.
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Re:Google workers arrested after protesting company's work w... by sakjur on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @02:19AM (#40061101)
Animats did not claim otherwise AFAICT. The forming of a union in Poland in 1980 is something I’ve been taught was one of the earliest public signs that Kremlin was losing its grasp over the east bloc. That’s not at all incompatible with Soviet falling apart due to internal problems.
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Re:Google workers arrested after protesting company's work w... by dh2022 on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @02:38AM (#40061198)
Well I read Animats’ comment in the context of activism producing change - not in the context of activism being a symptom of change…
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