I guess we aren't protesting anymore on the level of 4/15 and 6/15? What the actual fuck is going on? I support RF and I know they protested in DC a couple weeks ago. But - what is the story with Indivisible or No Kings or whatever? It is almost like these groups are not in any way serious. Boutique "protests" with inflatables and cheeky, clever signs? When is the next "Big Day?" Halloween? More dress-up with no actual demands? Feels good to accomplish nothing and pose ZERO threat to the worst political scenario in US history? I am angry this shit is just sliding along... week after week, nothing, no organization, no calls to action on a national level - where are we headed? Nowhere?
We're you standing and walking in those protests or any others? Did you drum and bang, hold a sign and yell at the top of your lungs against tyranny and Fascism?Write letters to your congressmen, protest at the Capitol, the White House, the Supreme Court? Hold Community gatherings to discuss and come up with actions?
Yes, I'm just complaining that I want to participate in more big nationwide protests that will get to level where they aren't completely ignored by the Trump administration as they have been so far. Have you heard that the Trump administration has been affected or altered any plans as a result of two nationwide protests since January? I have not. I do not believe protests every few months is going to rid us of Trump and the growing fascist state. I don't know if there are even going to be any more of the scale of June's. I want more action, not less. I attend everything I can. I march, I gather with others, I write... all I I want to see is bigger numbers and some effectiveness. I do not sit home and complain and do nothing. We need to do more, myself and millions of others need serious national organizing. I do not see that. Do you? It is too weak still. It is not working. A national movement needs to work or have some actual effect, not just make people feel good temporarily then causally slow, drift or stop for months at a time?
Vijay Pershad: A mobilization ain't an organization.
I guess we aren't protesting anymore on the level of 4/15 and 6/15? What the actual fuck is going on? I support RF and I know they protested in DC a couple weeks ago. But - what is the story with Indivisible or No Kings or whatever? It is almost like these groups are not in any way serious. Boutique "protests" with inflatables and cheeky, clever signs? When is the next "Big Day?" Halloween? More dress-up with no actual demands? Feels good to accomplish nothing and pose ZERO threat to the worst political scenario in US history? I am angry this shit is just sliding along... week after week, nothing, no organization, no calls to action on a national level - where are we headed? Nowhere?
We're you standing and walking in those protests or any others? Did you drum and bang, hold a sign and yell at the top of your lungs against tyranny and Fascism?Write letters to your congressmen, protest at the Capitol, the White House, the Supreme Court? Hold Community gatherings to discuss and come up with actions?
This essay is about the need to graduate from all that stuff to real resistance.
Yes, I'm just complaining that I want to participate in more big nationwide protests that will get to level where they aren't completely ignored by the Trump administration as they have been so far. Have you heard that the Trump administration has been affected or altered any plans as a result of two nationwide protests since January? I have not. I do not believe protests every few months is going to rid us of Trump and the growing fascist state. I don't know if there are even going to be any more of the scale of June's. I want more action, not less. I attend everything I can. I march, I gather with others, I write... all I I want to see is bigger numbers and some effectiveness. I do not sit home and complain and do nothing. We need to do more, myself and millions of others need serious national organizing. I do not see that. Do you? It is too weak still. It is not working. A national movement needs to work or have some actual effect, not just make people feel good temporarily then causally slow, drift or stop for months at a time?