I’m not calling for an escalation to violence. I believe that would give them exactly what they want, but we have entered into the time where civil disobedience must be the norm. They don’t care about our signs. They don’t care about the town halls. It is time to give them peaceful civil unrest and purposefully be in the way. They can’t arrest all of us. Even then, it is better to risk arrest now than to have a higher chance of risk of life later. Deny, Disobey, Depose.
Would sitting on the ground while chanting or making some form of noise deter bad actors trying to incite violence? Or at least make it obvious who those people are? But I guess if people want to incite violence they will figure out a way to do it no matter how hard we try to keep it peaceful.
Originally commented by u/staylorz on 2025-03-06 04:32:46 PM(mgehvhu)Idk what’s stopping people from signing this. It seems to be the most organized effort yet but needs to reach critical mass
Originally commented by u/Friskybish on 2025-03-06 04:26:32 PM(mgegk0u)I believe the tactics used by the 1980s ACT UP movement worked, and that they still do! Please watch the film All of the Beauty and the Bloodshed about artist Nan Goldin. She uses ACT UP methodology in her performance art- and it has created important political change on a large scale in current times!
Originally commented by u/PaxyMom93 on 2025-03-06 04:03:04 PM(mgebi5z)I have been at several protests in DC over the last few weeks. This is the nation’s capital. And there have been like several hundred people at each protest. That’s it.
I know that not everyone can come to DC, and honestly protesting in your home state might be more effective if you are in a purple state or district because Trump obviously doesn’t care. But it’s been positively dispiriting.
I was in DC when Biden won in 2020 and it was just this organic outpouring of people from all over. I was there for the BLM protests. Again. So many people.
But not now. And I don’t know why. Maybe people have given up. Our representatives certainly have. But it’s like really you are yelling into the wind because we can’t even get a real group of peaceful protesters to get out in the streets.
It’s made me even more sad and have even less hope for this country.
Originally commented by u/thegentledomme on 2025-03-06 04:01:03 PM(mgeb2oh)You also have to have patience, however difficult that may seem. Protests will always take time to reach, but you just gotta keep doing it until they can’t be ignored.
A good example are the ongoing protests against government corruption in Serbia, which started in November 2024 and only recently, 5 months of continuous rigorous protests later, did any effect of them show up in parliament (in the shape of opposition members throwing smoke grenades in parliament, but that’s just Serbia things). Given that the Serbia protests were already bigger when they started, I would expect having to protest for a year to see the big effects.
Originally commented by u/lelouchapproves on 2025-03-06 04:00:23 PM(mgeaxbj)Need a critical mass of people walking off their jobs at major manufacturers & distributors in red states in order to have any impact at this point. Which means somehow breaking through the propaganda and disinfo to wake up a lot of people to the fact they’ve been had
Originally commented by u/TrulyToasty on 2025-03-06 03:46:13 PM(mge7vl4)JOIN US
Originally commented by u/ilovetacos on 2025-03-06 05:24:40 PM(mgesp05)A massive labor strike to end the billionaires’ and fascists chokehold on the US. Then a global labor strike to force environmental protection before we hit climate tipping point - in the next decade. Without going full French revolution, it’s our only real, historically proven hope of winning this in time.
Originally commented by u/TheDarkAbster97 on 2025-03-06 04:51:06 PM(mgelqpl)https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26184
How to sabotage fascism. Please everyone take the time to read.
Originally commented by u/ShackoShells on 2025-03-06 04:37:38 PM(mgeiwu8)