Thread by @0Calamity

#BigPowerOff
Some of you might be wondering about the usefulness of switching off as much as you can for one day, the 1st April.
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2. Power companies work on the principle that they are able to predict in advance how much energy the nation will use on a given day - even at a given time (ad break during the World Cup, anyone?)

3. By having days of action (I say "days" in the plural quite deliberately, we can screw with their economic model.

4. Making 1st April the first day of action - well, we all have to start somewhere, don't we?

5. "Why not just refuse to pay your bills?" people cry. Well, because disable people/people on benefits/low paid are already struggling to keep the minimum possible to support themselves, their families and, in some cases, their medical equipment working to survive.

6. "Why not protest on the streets?"
Well, two reasons. a) not everyone is physically able to protest, or can afford to take time away from just damn well struggling to survive to do so and b) the govt. are hammering traditional forms of protest, so we have to get smart.

7. They can lock you up for protesting, they can cut you off for not paying. They can literally do nothing if you just stop consuming. So all of us who can must switch off as much as we can on 1st April to start the ball rolling. That's not to say there can't be local protests.

8. In fact, local protests, in your own neighbourhood, with a small placard explaining what you are doing and why, are likely to be far more effective, and gain far more support locally from your own neighbours than a national, centralised protest that will be ignored.

9. So join the #BigPowerOff on 1st April.
Switch it off.
Use the hashtag
Post short clips of your action.
Start that ball rolling.
Make the energy companies understand that we will mess with them til they stop messing with us.