No Kings protests draw estimated 8 million in largest single-day U.S. demonstrations
6 months ago by Five to c/inperson
So its plateauing? Shit.
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.
Thats enough for a highly succesful general strike
Wake me when the guillotines come out.
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.
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:
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.
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.
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.
If you think 8 million people hanging out noticing that nonviolence isn't enough and sharing that dissatisfaction with each other doesn't help progress things towards more effective means of resistance, I don't know what to tell you. It's like complaining that grade school doesn't teach children algebra.
Where did I say it did nothing? I said it won't stop the police state from cracking down.
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.
In blue cities, it is a networking event. There were booths for all sorts of organizations to get people more involved in activism. I was there with Food Not Bombs but there was like 30 booths for Not In Our Name, Veterans for Peace, AIRR, Peaceworks, PSL (Yuck), Labor Unions, and many more.
If you think hitting the news is how we win, idk what to tell you.
8m people didn't make the news IS the news, fam
The point is that it did nothing.
A single day protest does nothing
A single day holding placards does nothing.
You need to be out there having an 8 million protesters protest for a month. THAT will change things. Every day, go out again. And again. And again. Police will be brought in by day 3, and you will need to move and run for your own protection, but you keep on coming.
That is the kind of thing that will make changes. This did nothing
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The first one had 5 million, and the second one had 7 million. Yesterday’s was the third one.
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