This isn’t a protest, it’s a state-wide general strike, and it’ll be the first one to happen in the US in 80 years. Labor power has been diminished and defanged here for decades, but people are relearning how to fight. It’ll likely please you that the Black Panthers have reformed, armed themselves, and are guarding protestors and community members in some areas as well (which is what the 2nd amendment is actually supposed to be for; local militias).
It’s the difference between defense and vengeance. In Transformers One they had already defeated the big bad and had the support of the other transformers, so killing him then was an unnecessary act of revenge. It’s different when you’re still fighting and the big bad’s death could make a difference in the outcome.
Cooperatives, mutual aid networks like Food Not Bombs, rank-and-file/leaderless unions like the IWW, etc. There is a limited number of modern day examples because such organizations have historically faced systematic repression, but the list grows much longer if we look to the past. Such organization also tends to form spontaneously during natural disasters and the like when there is little to no state intervention, and quickly dissolve whenever the state intervenes.
For organizations with broader scope and on longer timescales, the Zapatistas in Chiapas, Mexico and Rojava in north and east Syria are good examples.
Keep in mind of course that the real world is messy and full of conflict, and that results in there not being any perfectly pure example of anarchist ideals in practice in the same way that there is no perfectly pure example of any ideology in practice. In addition, many of the groups I listed above do not make explicit reference to anarchism and are doing their own thing that just so happens to map onto anarchist ideas, and they often don’t call themselves anarchist or even have an aversion to ideological labels entirely.
The places in the US that are safer for minorities are also the first places that will be targeted for Trump’s domestic military occupation. If you’re trans and paying attention to how things are playing out, those are the places you go to seek solidarity and fight, not to flee and seek asylum.
If you say “capitalism sucks”, you are going to get reactionary thought and action. You have to say things in a way to engage their experience and understanding without tripping the propagandized brain worms.
Extending your metaphor, this is what your average American’s brain looks like. There is a lot of propaganda and social conditioning working against you here.
I’m half expecting Peter Thiel to say “maybe we should build a bunch of fallout shelters and then initiate a nuclear holocaust so we can outlast all our enemies, and also run some experiments while we’re at it” in an interview tomorrow, wearing a vault suit and giving a thumbs up.
These are soft power projection projects. You would recognize them as such if it were the US doing it (which we used to before Trump decided it was woke), so why do you stick to the Chinese state narrative here?
There is no alternative to capitalism (which has only really been the dominant economic model for a few hundred years at most) and if you dare suggest alternatives I’ll just dismiss them out of hand using propaganda I have burned into my skull and act like it refutes every argument you could possibly make.
How’s capitalism working out for the US right now, btw? Guess it depends who you ask, and if you ask the billionaires it’s doing great. Yay!
“I’m not that kind of fascist, I’m this other kind of fascist!”
She’s not “trying to get her country back.” For one, it doesn’t belong to her but to all Venezuelans, the majority of which do not like her. In addition, she has spoken publicly at economic conferences about her plans to sell the rights to Venezuela’s oil and other natural resources to US oil companies. She’s playing a game here, but it’s at the expense of Venezuelans, not for their benefit.
It looks like they might have lost the domain? I know there was something there about a month ago.
They have this on their website.
They have this on their website.
The live action was made for folks like you. It’s a great adaptation, loved by one piece fans and newcomers alike, and it has a much quicker pace.
The point was for people to form local “well-regulated militias” to act as a deterrent to federal overreach, but our culture of rugged individualism led to a different and very stupid interpretation of the 2nd amendment.
They have a sister group simply called The Panther Party which is open to anyone.
Existing in proximity to ICE agents is impeding their operations only because the knuckle-dragging morons are incapable of leaving well enough alone. They could literally have just ignored her and it’d be as if she wasn’t even there.
Aside from being reductive, yes, I’m an anarchist. I’m not opposed to writing down some rules, but I am opposed to the coercive use of force to impose them on others. It is possible to organize a system of preventative and restorative justice without the use of a hierarchy.
This video is a good introduction to how justice can work in an anarchist society.
Did you miss the part of the extended video where she waves along several ICE vehicles that get past her without issue and without even having to turn? One ICE vehicle, after several have already passed, decides to stop and surround her vehicle. She was not impeding them at all.
For a national general strike to work you need to get buy-in (ideally pledges) from major trade unions all across the US, as well as non-union organizations due to the very low union membership here in the US. Simply calling for one and then having almost nobody participate would be a disaster and would set the movement back, which is why it’s important to do the work of organizing a coalition to agree ahead of time to participate. The short of it is, if you want this to happen (which I do as well), start selling the idea to the people who need to buy it now and get them talking. The only reason they were able to get this organized so quickly in MN is because of how dire the situation is on the ground, so that everyone asked was immediately on board.