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Can we talk organizing? Historic resistance movements? Tips? Tricks? Thoughts? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 day ago by ivanafterall@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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I've been thinking about this a lot recently. I'm sure a lot of you have. For my part, I've been finally writing down my political experience, what I saw, etc...in a way that I think might be able to move some people on the right. But I also agree with this post. People always talk/write, etc...and rarely actually take action.

So, with that in mind, can we talk about what that looks like? Very specifically?

I suppose I'm hoping we can go a step beyond "go protest," having unanimously agreed that we should all be out en masse to make it clear we're pissed about...well...kinda everything.

But this is a fairly radical bunch. So, what do you all know about this? What concrete advice/tips/plans/ideas can we dumbass individual Americans learn from historic examples, political movements, etc...? Indeed, one of those questions might be: is this even the place to talk about this? If not, where? Does that already exist somewhere in the aether out there? Communications is always an interesting to me (I've wondered whether something like LoRa could be useful to setup in my area).

If I want to start a group locally, are there things I should think about? Practical tips beyond "talk to everyone you know?" Books to read? Etc...? Even if you get a group, it's easy for it to mean nothing. How do you make it not mean nothing?

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[-] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 3 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Thanks for the heads-up, that's exactly the kind of thing I'm looking for/hoping people will mention here. It's a little bit ironic that the first big issue of the post is, "Wait, that's not allowed here!" But that's exactly one of my points. Say I decide to just organize a rally. I have some relevant experience, but in the past, I would be using Facebook/Twitter, etc... That seems potentially ill-advised here. It feels like some forethought about structuring the thing is worthwhile, before just "planning a big protest/rally." That is not really a whole lot in and of itself, in my view, unless you have a plan for, "Okay, but then what? What's next?"

[-] Sergio@slrpnk.net 3 points 21 hours ago

Well there are two issues there.

First, where's the right place to organize? This community has decided to not focus on politics, and instead direct people to !politicaldiscussion@lemmy.world and !askusa@discuss.online which is fair enough.
Second, what can we do that is more than just a big protest/rally? There are plenty of organizations that do important work but a lot of progress isn't big and flashy enough to make the news. The 50501 demonstrations came about in part because people felt not enough was being done and wanted something bigger and flashier, and several organizations went to the 50501 demonstrations to offer "next steps." But to answer the question "what can we do?": find an organization that does more than just demonstrate, i.e. maybe they pressure congressional reps., maybe they focus on state- or city-level policy, maybe they support legal challenges, maybe they help protect vulnerable communities, etc.

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