Crickets who where? Just because nobody organized a pussy hat march in front of your house on Saturday morning when you didn't have anything better going on doesn't mean people aren't and haven't been holding sustained protests in the streets, at city councils, and at fascists' houses for years
This really grinds my gears. The Austin for Palestine Coalition, for ex., has been getting kicked out of city council meetings for something like seven months now, protesting genocide on a weekly basis. Or you're gonna tell me it's crickets when Stop Cop City is live question??? come on now
If you think protests aren't happening on anything and everything every day in this country and especially where people are facing the highest barriers, it's because you don't know the right people. I promise you the right people would love for you to join them!!!
IDK I can't recall the specifics of why I blocked/muted that lady years ago but IIRC it was in response to some typical coastal liberal fuckery about how red-staters are just ignorant fuckos who should be written off as a loss
let's also not forget that people somehow have no visibility on things that are like 10 miles away, let alone in different states. When I talked to folks here about how things go down in the Texas Lege? They literally were blank stares. Like *maybe* they heard about Wendy's filibuster, maybe.
I both think people need to look harder, and think we need to be a little more suspicious about what gets shared and how. It is all all parts situation.
Yeah! Wild to hear this from the EIC of MoJo, who must surely at least suspect, if she does not know, that failures of media coverage w/r/t sustained resistance movements inform how, when, and whether protests happen or the public is made aware of them
right?? even when we are trying - and I know a lot of people are - shit gets lost. Forget malicious ignorance or general skepticism. But we are all too old to act like everyone is out there sitting on their hands. The revolution is *ongoing*.
Not just a march. Social action ≠ protest. It's a lot more. Starting with a march isn't always the best move. Sometimes it's the second or third. If all you're doing is protesting you're prob not being most effective.
Making sure ppl understand there's a place for ppl who can't march is good too.
