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Cake day: September 5th, 2023

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  • Generally, it’s a good idea for protests to target those in power as those in power are more likely to be able enact the desired change. Overwhelming the power grid would disproportionately impact the poor. They are more likely to be on medications that require refrigeration, more likely to live in densely populated heat islands (the 1st places to lose power), more likely to be reliant on public services that might shut down during such an event (like public transportation), and are less likely to have access to alternative power sources like generators or residential renewable generation (like geothermal or solar). This reasoning applies to any attempt to make society collapse under its own weight. The people a strike/protest is supposed to hurt are (some would argue, by design) also the most insulated from society. If they relied on the same systems the rest ofbus do, they wouldn’t be so willing to destroy those systems.