This helps me, but at the bottom, I despair of solidarity outside limited communities. Like Minneapolis when ICE cracked down. It can't sweep the country afaic. We're just not that kind of country.
Most people can’t protest everyday because they live in a country with no safety net. Because of where I live I could go to multiple protests every day but if I don’t work, I don’t get paid.
No Kings detractors are being Trump's useful idiots, to the point I would be shocked if Russia wasn't trying a disinformation campaign to divide his opponents
Yep! 100%. People criticize that there’s no “ask” in the NO KINGS protests, but I can tell you that the protests we’ve held here with specific asks—abolish ICE, keep Hegseth out of our town (he was here, unfortunately)—almost no one shows up.
For whatever reason, NO KINGS gets people out there.
Also "No Kings" seems like a clear demand to me, the demand is right in the name. People who think a nonviolent protest is about "asking" corrupt criminals in power to step down voluntarily or start being nicer, don't understand what protests are for and how they work. They aren't to convince the people you're targeting, they're to convince your fellow citizens to join a social movement. Political change always follows cultural change, never the other way around. Real numbers wield real power, and removes tyrants without asking them for anything at all.
The KKK didn't yield to the civil rights movement because they consented after being asked nicely... no their power structures were systematically dismantled by organized resistance and it became politically and socially untenable to be publicly associated with them in any capacity.
They are afraid of direct challenge to the regime. They may assume there are people surveilling, and that that sign or banner mentioning ICE, etc, will be traceable directlty back to them.
This helps me, but at the bottom, I despair of solidarity outside limited communities. Like Minneapolis when ICE cracked down. It can't sweep the country afaic. We're just not that kind of country.
Most people can’t protest everyday because they live in a country with no safety net. Because of where I live I could go to multiple protests every day but if I don’t work, I don’t get paid.
Because suddenly you know better than what the science and history says?
This is clickbait for ignorant cynics.
Gather 6-10 neighbors and/ acquaintances in your kitchen weekly to plan YOUR events and YOUR actions. It’s easy. It costs nothing.
We started a weekly protest almost a year ago with a handful of people and we have grown every week.
With our organizing ‘muscle’ we will be ready to GOTV.
Now do you get it?
Sustained action, sustained organizing is how we will save democracy.
No Kings detractors are being Trump's useful idiots, to the point I would be shocked if Russia wasn't trying a disinformation campaign to divide his opponents
Yep! 100%. People criticize that there’s no “ask” in the NO KINGS protests, but I can tell you that the protests we’ve held here with specific asks—abolish ICE, keep Hegseth out of our town (he was here, unfortunately)—almost no one shows up.
For whatever reason, NO KINGS gets people out there.
Also "No Kings" seems like a clear demand to me, the demand is right in the name. People who think a nonviolent protest is about "asking" corrupt criminals in power to step down voluntarily or start being nicer, don't understand what protests are for and how they work. They aren't to convince the people you're targeting, they're to convince your fellow citizens to join a social movement. Political change always follows cultural change, never the other way around. Real numbers wield real power, and removes tyrants without asking them for anything at all.
The KKK didn't yield to the civil rights movement because they consented after being asked nicely... no their power structures were systematically dismantled by organized resistance and it became politically and socially untenable to be publicly associated with them in any capacity.
They are afraid of direct challenge to the regime. They may assume there are people surveilling, and that that sign or banner mentioning ICE, etc, will be traceable directlty back to them.