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In Person ActivismIt should be daily
bad link.. or anti-tor?
It opened for me. Not on tor, but on a VPN.
ah, works from tor now as well. Just a temporary glitch i suppose.
The first one had 5 million, and the second one had 7 million. Yesterday’s was the third one.
So its plateauing? Shit.
No need to be fatalistic.
- the previous protests were huge. Keeping up steam is more important than growing.
- 13% increase is still significant growth.
somewhere between 1 and 2 million new voices added to the bunch. it's also not really plateauing, at least not in any way significant enough to make us believe whe can't still place our hope and faith in the possibility of linear growth for the next round. and when we do plateau we'll know what we've got.
this is the strongest mass support movement i've seen in politics in the south since Occupy Wall Street. something is alive amongst The People, who refuse to be broken, refuse to have less in this world than everything their dignity demands. people are engagede with community support in ways i have never seen in my entire life.
i have hope and faith that we can end this selfish autocracy and win our freedom from these greedy parascites.
8 million is about 3% of the eligible voter population. That’s pretty crazy
Wake me when the guillotines come out.
So when all the hard work is done you want to take credit?
Who said I'd take credit? Furthermore, if you think these rallies are going to stop the police state from cracking down, you are beyond delusional.
All it does is give them a head start on identifying whos rights to violate first when the gulags open for all citizens.
I don't live in the US so my assessment might be completely off here, but with protests like this you shouldn't hope for the more radical positions. If you're more radical yourself this can be annoying or feel like it serves no purpose and I get that. It still provides opportunities for us.
There's two main reasons I advocate for showing up at things like this:
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Treat it like a networking event. Go talk to people, hand out flyers, wave your flags, bring funny signs, hand out vegan cookies... As an anarchist I'm very much aware that most people never think about anarchists, and when they it's rarely in a positive way. Protests like are an opportunity to get people to see, however briefly, that anarchists can be nice people with free cookies.
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If or when things go poorly, like if the police or the far-right decides to escalate, I'd want people with experience there to provide assistance. Whether that's taking up the front to defend others, yelling: "Walk! Don't run!" while people are trying to get out of tear gas, handing out water so people can rinse out pepper spray (and telling people not to use milk), explaining how to handle a kettle, etc.
These should be called rallies, not protests.
Sure, but that doesn't change my points in any way.
You yourself called them protests, even in your points. So... It kinda' does.
Acting like networking events are valid, effective protests is inoculative behavior and counterproductive.
Fuck that. Start building them yourself
I can build them, but if the crowd doesn't support it, it's painting a target on my own back for nothing.
By the time the guillotines are usable, you've already won. They'll just be turned against you. Build community if you want to win.
Por que no los dos?
There probably will never be a demonstration with perfectly aligned opinions, but I think you would definitely find your crowd or more likely your crowd would find you with such a rallying point.
The crowd aren't the ones who would be painting the target.
