• orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    33·
    14 days ago

    Organize. Get the names and numbers of 10 people and make decisions to meet. Ask them to do the same.

    Organize. Decide on how to be more disruptive and how to make more noise.

    Organize. Cute and clever signs don’t mean shit if the establishment doesn’t read them. Make decisions that affect their profits.

    Organization is hard. Mobilization is easy.

    https://www.itsinscope.com/research-internal/2020/10/31/kwame-ture-organisation-vs-mobilisation

    • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      15·
      14 days ago

      Grow community gardens. Learn to grow plants with medicinal value. Create community mesh networks. Create communal living arrangements. If you have a well, make it a community well. If you have solar panels, fill batteries for the community and/or allow them to draw from your power. Do anything you can to disconnect from the capitalist machine that is killing us. Do more than make signs and chant.

      They are already doing some of the work for us in devaluing the dollar and crashing the economy. Create parrallel systems that don’t rely on that.

      Yes it means you’ll be giving up coffee. Sorry.

  • Potatisen@lemmy.world
    15·
    14 days ago

    Hey Americans.

    I really hope you do make a difference, I don’t think you will. I really hope that you can change things, I don’t think you can. I really hope you don’t accept a superficial gesture, I think you will.

    Please, get your shit together. Please.

    • in4apenny@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      6·
      14 days ago

      Imagine living in a fantasy world thinking that oligarchs will see a crowd of protestors and go “Oh jeez, maybe they have a point, it’s time to start listening!” Americans think “change” happens from cinematic marches and idols making great speeches, or giving a can of Pepsi to a cop. I’m not against crowds of protestors gathering peacefully, but why not outside the oligarchs mansions? Organizers provide coach and bus trips for protestors all over the country, they have all the means and resources to organize these crowds and yet they choose the most ineffective locations like a town hall where people in suits can safely laugh at them on TV from home.

      • Sergio@slrpnk.net
        7·
        14 days ago

        why not outside the oligarchs mansions?

        Oligarchs will just go to another one of their mansions. But local politicians track those crowd sizes bc their jobs depend on it.

      • stopdropandprole@lemmy.world
        5·
        14 days ago

        but why not outside the oligarchs mansions?

        be the change you want to see in the world. just get some friends and go for it. we believe in you!

        seriously, ever consider there might be multiple steps in the process of overthrowing oligarchy?

        maybe participating in a siwy widdul pwotest is the first step towards getting people enough courage to do precisely what you’re suggesting?

        or that your cynicism against the first step might be exactly what prevents us from getting to the next step, the one where people surround the mansions?

      • GoldenQuetzal@lemmy.world
        2·
        13 days ago

        Mass protests are a sign that the dictator doesn’t have control over the people and often moves the pillars of power away from them. Having a large enough protest of at least 3.5% of a population is a key tipping point.

        Regimes gain power when ordinary citizens consent to their rule. Nonviolent demonstrations withdraw that consent. No regime can survive when too many people refuse to obey the regime’s orders.

        3.5% of the population peacefully protesting is so visible that no one can ignore them and at that scale, most soldiers have no desire to suppress the protesters because they include family, friends, coworkers, and neighbors - so it prevents the armed forces from allying with the dictator.