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Originally Posted By u/itsokbirdie At 2025-04-24 11:48:12 PM | Source

The last couple of days have been SO déjà vu it's enough to drive one to mutter to hell with it and go get several beer. Because I've seen this in about every North American movement since I was a kid with the adults on the line back in the 1950s.

Some things happen in every movement, no matter how well it starts. First, 'leaders' emerge, because most humans are followers and need leaders. Then the 'leaders' begin to like being leaders and rapidly come to view disagreement as a challenge to their power and an attack on the true nature of The Movement. At the same time, Ideologues begin questioning the intellectual and/or moral purity of The Movement (ideologues seem to think in Capitalisation). The non-violent are upset by the Bloc, the Bloc mocks the Kumbaya crowd (terminology of the 1990s), vegans attack meat eaters, then vegetarians, left leaners refuse to working with right leaners, Trots shoot down the crowd on the Odessa Steps and yadayadayada. People spend more time determining the most democratic way to make decisions than actually deciding. Soon groups spin off into little bubbles of purity and conspiracy, until the formerly powerful Movement is reduced to monthly meetings devoted to determining rules and the agenda for the next meeting.

And the capitalists/fascists/bosses win again.

Everyone,please, TAKE A DEEP BREATH! Decide for yourself whether it is more important to save the tattered shreds of your democracy or to be in charge, or morally correct, or have the most intellectually rigorous interpretation, or only co-operate with people who agree with you 100%, or....

Screw central structure, branding, trademarks and consensus: NO REVOLT WAS EVER WON THAT WAY! Look at what happened to BLM and Occupy Democrats. NO!

Whoever you are, wherever you are, turn to the person next to you and agree on the goals you share -- there will be time when that battle is won to fight over details. Work with the people in your community who share those goals to reach them, no matter what other stuff you have to set aside for now.

Then DO IT! It might be marching.or grafitti-ing slogans, or flooding your Congressperson's mailbox/phone/office plastering the town with posters, standing alone with a handmade sign.

Or maybe you are a member of the Black Bloc. That's your choice, and you can only be responsible for your choices, not your neighbour's. Support those who are working parallel to you, or in the same field, or for a cause that aligns with yours, even if it's not yours.

Because you ain't gonna win this any way but through mutual support and co-operation: that's the only way numbers grow overwhelming and revolts succeed.

Thanks for reading the old woman's rant. Be back later to see how thoroughly it's ignored.

Edit: teeny tiny typo.

Originally Posted By u/MrsWidgery At 2025-04-26 08:53:57 AM | Source

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I'm sorry but I trust the vets and if they're saying national was moving funny I gotta agree

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Originally Posted By u/pomkombucha At 2025-04-25 01:59:51 PM | Source

This is protected speech going all the way back to Watts v. United States in 1969.

Originally Posted By u/Accomplished-Unit343 At 2025-04-24 08:53:54 AM | Source

I am sure most of your have heard of the arrest of judge Dugan by the FBI today. All for asking for a warrant and not wanting her court room to be used as a trap for ICE agents to go after immigrants.

We need to get in the horn now and call all of our reps and demand action. This is authoritarian facism.

Call your reps, leave a voicemail, call back and speak to their staff, email, fax, @ them on social media, show up at their offices (peacefully), do all the things and mobilize on this people!

If you don't know who your senator is or their number use the switchboard number: (202) 224-3121

Look at your local congressional reps too.

We need to make as much noise as possible on this.

Originally Posted By u/Haunting-Win-7143 At 2025-04-25 02:53:18 PM | Source

Originally Posted By u/LazyDirector At 2025-04-24 03:19:05 AM | Source

People have been doing this work for years. This movement is a loose federation of groups, ranging from very organized to not organized. They have whatever capacity they have, and people are doing their best, many without much in the way of resources or experience. Meanwhile, every area has a variety of orgs doing activist work, many who have been around for quite a while (how far you are from towns and cities probably determines what you've got - and even then if you don't have political ones, you likely have veterans groups and farmer groups etc who might have an interest in defending against this).

If you are dissatisfied with the level of activity on your area, you can try to organize some yourself, but I urge you to just find and support groups that are already doing the work too. You don't have to start from scratch yourself and you shouldn't try to reinvent the wheel that someone is already using. You likely have some sort of immigrant rights organization near you where white people never come to anything. You likely have women's rights organizations, abortion funds, etc near you which do below the surface unglamorous work and nitty-gritty local and state political stuff.

The show of numbers that we see at these days of actions are just one piece of the puzzle. Instead of lamenting about that, go find the people who are already working on the other pieces, bring whoever you've convinced to protest with you to support what they are doing. And if they have not been engaged in the 50501 days of action, try to bring them into that to combine forces.

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Originally Posted By u/50501California At 2025-04-25 05:53:22 PM | Source

From a website I made for my city https://chicodemocracy.weebly.com/national.html.

Companies on this list either: donated heavily to Trump and the GOP the last 5 years, rolled back DEI initiatives, supported Elon Musk, censored the movement, manufacture in El Salvador, and/or advertise on Fox News.

Originally Posted By u/kevshp At 2025-04-25 12:56:42 PM | Source

Simple message, very clearly laid out

My name is ___ from city/state/zip

I am demand my representatives support any and all articles of impeachment against this administration and the president. The president and their administration have overstepped their duty of office to now assert authority over the judicial branch, who is trying to uphold due process of justice. This cannot be allowed to continue. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. Once again I am demanding my representatives to support any and all impeachment proceedings against the president because this cannot be allowed to continue.

Edit: Imagine Show the numbers - millions of us after this judges being arrested calling for the impeachment to our representatives

Then backing that up with millions out in protest to stop this nonsense. This cannot stand.

Originally Posted By u/thatnextquote At 2025-04-25 03:28:41 PM | Source

Would you stand there and watch it happen? Would you pull out your phone and post video of it? Would you stand there and jeer? Would you try to physically make the arrest more difficult? Would you try to prevent the agents from illegally absconding with a human being until they prove they have all needed legal authority (warrants, cause, proper occasion, proper arrest methods, etc.) to detain the individual? Would you do everything in your power to save this person?

Think about what level of action you are comfortable with and how you want to remember yourself in the event this happens.

Originally Posted By u/Lower-Insect-3984 At 2025-04-24 11:38:59 AM | Source

I was just thinking that we should boycott fireworks this year. Don't even go watch them. I know they're fun, but we aren't independent anymore. Instead, we make it a fighting for independence, and make signs and hit the streets.

Originally Posted By u/Big-Cash-8148 At 2025-04-26 09:20:54 AM | Source

A few mods got kicked off, and its locked. Whats happening?

They are arresting judges now for gods sake. The only people who’ve done or said anything are few and far between. We need Al Gore’s energy from his speech the other day.

Originally Posted By u/Majestic-Drama-7454 At 2025-04-25 05:56:31 PM | Source

Originally Posted By u/VarunTossa5944 At 2025-04-24 10:31:05 AM | Source

Make America Great, at-last. Make America Great, alright?! Make America Great. Amen! Make America Great, ahem?

Originally Posted By u/GlitteryZipper At 2025-04-24 12:56:21 PM | Source

like that’s pretty much how trump is able to any damage at all right now. the supreme court is sick of his ass, shouldn’t we be protesting at their doorstep to get it overturn?

Originally Posted By u/theteufortdozen At 2025-04-23 11:47:23 PM | Source

How to attend a local protest without using social media:

1. Go to https://www.mobilize.us/mayday/ and find your local protest

2. Invite your friends and family

3. During the protest ask around about the next date

4. Repeat 2+3 until shit is fixed

Originally Posted By u/angiosperms- At 2025-04-25 10:54:47 AM | Source

"Take back America" protest set for 4th of July. Rain or shine. In front of Washington D.C. capitol building. Starts 2pm. Repost this flyer and copy/paste this info. Post this flyer literally everywhere censorship is at an all time high. See you guys there!

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