First they are coming for Palestinians and our migrant neighbors. If they succeed, there will be fewer people to fight when they come for you. This is a fascist coup. You know this. The Democrats are impotent and the law is Trump’s weapon. You know this too. They are trying to herd us into a nightmare: AI-Monarchy-Corporate-Police-State-Climate-Apocalypse. We know what we have to do.
A WARNING: An error was made 20 years ago. By 2000, social movements had learned how to shut down entire cities, outflanking and outmaneuvering the police. When the anti-Iraq war movement started, those tactics were set aside in a shift to peaceful mass marches led by groups like ANSWER. These orgs preferred 100,000 people carrying signs in the hope that those in power would care. They didn’t care then, they don’t care now. We all know that.
A PROPOSAL: Remember May and June of 2020? The George Floyd Rebellion opened with a police precinct burned, cop cars disabled, corporate stores looted across the country. They were scared and changed their policies, bending in the face of real popular power. Now they’re striking back. 2020, but bigger, is our only shot.
Fascist politicians need the police. But we know masses of people can get the better of the police, their cars, equipment, cameras. All we have to do is to start acting like our friends, neighbors, and our own lives are at stake. All other options have been exhausted. We have to pull down the new fascism before it consolidates control. If we settle for waving signs and chanting, our fate is sealed. If we remember the summer of 2020, we stand a fighting chance.
Look for those pushing and help them push harder.
Move together. Be water.
They can control a march of 10,000 — they can’t control 10 marches of 1000.
De-arrest. Don’t let people get grabbed. If they do, don’t let their cars or busses leave.
They only care about money, so causing monetary losses is your only vote.
On the inside, the demonstration is an organism of care and support.
On the outside, it is ferocious and uncontrollable.
Without their toys they are powerless.
No one is coming to save us. Everything is at stake.