“Shut It Down”: Why Adam McKay Is Endorsing a Mass Strike for Workers Across Industries

“Shut It Down”: Why Adam McKay Is Endorsing a Mass Strike for Workers Across Industries

On Thursday Don’t Look Up filmmaker Adam McKay appeared at the virtual town hall of a grassroots group attempting to help organize a general strike, encouraging participants to “shut down this broken, befouled economy.”

McKay joined a town hall for the “General Strike 4 Resignations” group alongside Chris Smalls, the co-founder and former president of the Amazon Labor Union and one of the subjects of the 2024 documentary Union, which McKay executive produced.

The idea…