How bad do we let things get? Should we wait until the planet can’t sustain life anymore? Should we wait until it’s 100 degrees F in the Artic? Until wildfires blanket entire continents or the last glacier is gone? Should we wait until fascist billionaires take even more from us? Until there are Flock cameras at every mail box? Maybe we should wait until the wells run dry or the tornadoes never stop. When is it going to be enough? I’m so tired of seeing things getting worse. Every. Single. Day. I’m ready. I’ve been ready. How about you?
How do we coordinate? How do we look after each other? What is the signal? If we don’t work together then we are just continuing our slow march to destruction to the drum of the parasitic billionaires. Please, for us, for the cats, the dogs, the birds and trees. The fish and the whales, the beatles and the centipedes. Please tell me it’s worth it to you, that you’re willing to get uncomfortable, that you’re willing to fight. There are more of us than them, and we are rapidly running out of time to make that mean something.
You need focus, leadership, communication, and action planning.
Focus: You will have to choose climate change, flock surveillence, or social equality.
Communication: Dm people that seem like they could help, or believe as you do. Grow your organization.
Leadership: Choose or elect organizers by region or city so the people in your movement stay engaged. You need a central leader with impeccable morals/values. Dr. King is a good example to follow.
Action: Non violent protests, legal cases, and constitutional amendments come within reach when you have people power behind you. Plan and deliberatere internally to form a solid plan before going public; then don’t back down.
You need REAL LIFE communication. Not just dms, you need to TALK to people. Build a community in real life.
Focus: Abolish capitalism
Communication: Done
Leadership: Fuck that, leaders are assassinated and co-opted. You need to develop your own agency and spread the protagonist virus.
Action: Everything you listed is performative, not action. Define clear goals and steps that directly achieve them. You won’t remove a single flock camera by waving a “SHAME!” sign in front of it, you can with an angle grinder though.