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I went to a #protest against changes to #socialsecurity. Not my biggest issue but the social security office happens to be in walking distance, and like, yeah, it's still pretty messed up. I was one of 3 people who showed up, but both the other two people run separate local orgs. That's two more connections to people who actually show up than I had before. #uspol
Americans, particularly white Americans, really need some education on long-form organizing and protests. How protest culture needs to be founded on community care and resilence for long-term resistance.
And such revolutionary work requires building a foundation of community resilence through strategies including street medics, mask blocs, mending and repair libraries, community gardens, mutual aid networks, alternative healthcare options, collective access, transformative justice work, free legal assistance, educating each other, sharing skills, writing and art, and the like.
I can't really sum this up as it's a multilayered topic, but I'll point out past movements that used various community care and resilence strategies in their long-term resistance. Resources at the end.
Civil Rights Movement had built up a lot of community care, educating their people, and alternatives of societal systems for their survival. These were used for some of their biggest actions (Black Panthers and MLK Jr often worked together due to the foundation Black Panthers built).
Disabled and Non-Disabled Miners had built up some mutual aid and distribution of supplies, which is why their wildcat strikes were some of the longest running in US Labor history.
STAR, the trans led revolutionary group, built up similarly before and during some of their biggest actions. They built up housing for each other, food distribution, educating others, as well as disruptive protest.
Indigenous resistance -- see Standing Rock for a recent example -- used mutual aid, community-led healthcare and gardening, cross-movement organizing, housing and food sharing, and other foundational actions to build and continue to build community care and resilence.
The Disabled Sit-in protests and Capitol Crawl had built cross-movement coalitions, such as Butterfly Brigade providing food, Black Panthers offering care assistance, others offering transportation and legal help.
Occupy also built this while it was ongoing. Mutual aids formed (and some still exist today) to distribute supplies and food. Free legal counseling was offered, people shared knowledge together, and even experimented with different styles of decision-making and governance.
Black Lives Matter had built up a lot of this prior from other resistance and tapped it and even expanded the community care strategies in many areas. (Those in my town are still doing this work.)
Yes, the USA turned genocidal and tried to destroy each of these movements, but they failed to stomp us out as many of us survived because of the community built. And many of these movements did win some of their major goals.
A protest with these equitable and often experimental community care foundations is more likely to succeed long-term. It's also a way to build up communities that are resilent and more able to hold firm against the oppressor.
If your praxis does not include these strategies, then that protest isn't ready for the long-term fight. And it'll be more prone to co-option by the state, which will bleed the people dry of our energy for a long-term fight.
And I will always assert that any protest that positions a vulnerable oppressed group as disposable and/or puts them into harms way is actually already co-opted by the oppressors. The protest's message has then been lost, the target the wrong group entirely.
Our goal in this fight against fascism is to build with each other the future we want right now the best we can AND to bring hell to our oppressors.
No one is disposable. Disabled activists, especially those who are multiply marginalized, often say that "We take care of us." That taking care of each other MUST be part of organizing and protesting. It's the best, and historically often the only way to win against our oppressors.
Without community and caring for each other, we won't win.
For more about this:
* Crip Camp documentary
* The Black AntiFascist Tradition by Hope and Muller,
*Emergent Strategy series by Adrienne maree brown,
*Care Work by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha,
*From Black Lives Matter to Black Liberation by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
* Our History Is Our Future by Nick Estes
* Red Nation Rising by Border Town Violence Working Group and it's follow-up The Red Deal
* White Rage by Carol Anderson
* A Disabled People's History of the United States by Kim Nielsen
* An Indigenous People's History of the United States by Dunbar-Ortiz
* Miss Major Speaks by Miss Major
* Let This Radicalize You by Mariame Kaba and Kelly Hayes
* We Do This 'Til We Free Us by Mariame Kaba
* Beyond Survival by Ejeris Dixon and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
* A People's Guide To Abolition And Disability Justice by Katie Tastrom
* Disability Justice Principles by Sins Invalid
* Surviving The Future edited by Branson, Hudsen, and Reed
* How We Show Up by Mia Birdsong
* The Sea is Rising and So Must We: A Climate Justice Handbook by Cynthia Kaufmann
* Mutual Aid by Dean Spade
And I have a whole lot more recommendations, but that should get people started.
@ConcernedPineapple@mastodon.socialMore #Colorado events on April 19!
From https://bsky.app/profile/50501colorado.bsky.social/post/3lmqa56lm6c2k:
Colorado is SHOWING UP on 4/19!
Protests in
LITTLETON
ARVADA
BERTHOUD
LOVELAND
CO SPRINGS
SALIDA
GREELY
LONGMONT
LONETREE
SUPERIOR
And we'll be there in DENVER at the State Capitol!
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Sharing to @resistancerallies @teslatakedown @50501movement #Resist #Protest #50501 #50501Colorado #Loveland #Littleton #Denver
#Arvada #Berthoud #ColoradoSprings #Salida #Greeley #Longmont #Lonetree #Superior
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@ConcernedPineapple@mastodon.social#Berthoud, #Colorado! April 19!
From https://bsky.app/profile/berthoudindivisibl.bsky.social/post/3lmrroffe7s2l
Apr 19 Berthoud Stands Up - Show up for Democracy!
Join us @12 pm, Apr 19th, on the Berthoud Rec Center sidewalks to rally in support of Democracy and against fascism.
https://www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/775933/
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Sharing to @resistancerallies @teslatakedown #Resist #Protest #HandsOff #Indivisible @indivisibleteam
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@ConcernedPineapple@mastodon.social#Colorado! April 19!
From: https://bsky.app/profile/50501colorado.bsky.social/post/3lmrwn525qk2g
JOIN US THIS SATURDAY AT 12 PM TO SAY "HANDS OFF!"
Protest runs 12 PM - 4 PM
March portion is 1 PM - 2 PM
An amazing line up of powerful speakers is ready to go, hear from the people doing the work of resistance in Denver!
See you AT THE CAPITOL!
#50501Movement #Denver #Colorado #HandsOff
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Emboldened no doubt by the fascist repression and rhetoric deployed by the Trump regime, and a large number of right wing extremists in the US judiciary, state governments all over America are proposing or passing laws that criminalize even peaceful protest - with multi-decade prison terms laid out for dissidents and resisters:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/09/anti-protest-bills-trump
US intensifies crackdown on peaceful protest under Trump
"Anti-protest bills that seek to expand criminal punishments for constitutionally protected peaceful protests – especially targeting those speaking out on the US-backed war in Gaza and the climate crisis – have spiked since Trump’s inauguration.
Forty-one new anti-protest bills across 22 states have been introduced since the start of the year – compared with a full-year total of 52 in 2024 and 26 in 2023, according to the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL) tracker.
This year’s tally includes 32 bills across 16 states since Trump returned to the White House, with five federal bills targeting college students, anti-war protesters and climate activists with harsh prison sentences and hefty fines – a crackdown that experts warn threaten to erode first amendment rights to freedom of speech, assembly and petition."
I don't know about you, but I've been having arguments with liberals about what constitutes an effective protest since at least the Occupy Wall Street movement, and invariably their excuse for not actually disrupting anything or shutting shit down, is that effective resistance will give the authorities an excuse to crack down on otherwise peaceful protests. So what now folks? If you're gonna be called a domestic terrorist and do twenty years in prison for peacefully disrupting the oil and gas industry or opposing a US-backed genocide conducted by its client state Israel regardless, why remain peaceful? Given that Trump's Attorney General, Pam Bondi, is openly talking about twenty year prison terms for vandalizing a Tesla dealership, it seems pretty clear that the penalties are the same whether you march peacefully waving your little signs, or actually shut the fuck barrel down and hurt these folks where it counts - their wallets.
Furthermore, while it's obvious these anti-protest bills are designed to target anti-genocide protestors as part of the Trump regime's crackdown on anyone who doesn't support settler colonialist massacres by Israel in Gaza, don't sleep on the fact that these guys are also targeting climate crisis protestors who disrupt the fossil fuel and energy industries. As I've been telling you for years now, understanding climate crisis and what our leaders already know about it, is crucial to understanding the rise of fascism because these folks absolutely intend to lead us all off the ecological cliff and they know, sooner or later, the public at large isn't going to accept "we think you should all die so a handful of nazi billionaires can keep stacking filthy lucre." All over the Pig Empire, whether your government is overtly fascist, or covertly fascist under the guise of neoliberalism, our states are preparing to meet everyday people rising up against the capitalism that's killing us, with fascist repression - and we've already caught the companies that know they've got bodies on their hands, actively funding the lobbies behind these anti-democratic suppression laws, to protect their business interests.
As I've told you a number of times already, it only takes one side to declare war, and the rise of fascism in the so-called West must be understood as part of a much larger class war; a war nazi billionaire cultists and corporate power intend to win, once and for all. It doesn't matter how peaceful you are, the fact that you know the machine is killing your kids for five pennies a share and don't like it, is enough to make you the enemy of a capitalist order increasingly turning to overt fascism to lock in their way of life and future profits, no matter how many of their victims (all of us) don't like it. Whether you fight back, or not, the boot is coming.
"Mr Forst said legislation over peaceful #protest in the #UK needed to be repealed as he believed it to be "draconian"
"In France you would receive a small fine, never prison. But in the UK peaceful protesters receive 12 months in prison." "
Talking point #3:
A FOX News host is in charge of the Department of Defense. A quack and an anti-science anti-vaxxer are in charge of our healthcare systems. And our education system is being run into the ground by a wrestling promoter.
4/n
Talking point #2:
America is being parted out to make ultra rich people even more rich, and that’s destroyed our reputation and eliminated the trust we built with the rest of the free world over the last century.
3/n
Talking point #1:
Rights are being strip-mind, and our national and public institutions are being literally whitewashed.
2/n
I’m looking for feedback on my talking points for when (if) a reporter shows up to one of our Rush-Hour Resistance Rallies and asks what we want to see change. Feel free to comment on any. And steal them!
There is one goal and three main “why”s:
Goal: Join us in speaking out. Here, at another #rally, or start one of you own. We need to show the scale of people who are vehemently opposed to the Republican administration and are willing to stand up.
1/n
Algorithmen, Gesichtserkennung und verschärfte Protestgesetze signalisieren einen sich vertiefenden Überwachungsstaat
~ Blade Runner ~
I work for an evil corporation.
If you talk about protest, you're monitored and Donald Trump's regime is made aware of you. The argument is this is done to better national interest and security.
If you're LGBTQ+ or Trans, the algorithm will now refer you to hate groups. The argument is it is being done for better exposure and diversity.
#Meta #Facebook #Instagram #WhatsApp #Threads #Protest #Lgbtq+ #Lgbtq