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Cake day: March 14th, 2023

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  • It’s going to take a collectively outwardly aggressive movement, in the spirit of the armed Black Panther party.

    You are emphasizing the aggressive portion of it, but I think Americans still need work on the collectively. “Get armed or get out” isn’t going to get you far in building a movement. For example, if Alex Pretti was alone and not recorded by a mass of other non-violent protestors at the time of his gang murder by ICE, the propaganda that Pretti was looking to shoot them first would stick a lot longer. Gun for gun, ICE’s budget for weapons per agent is a lot larger than even the most kitted out Black Panther. It’s already stupid the amount of weapons they have stockpiled against peaceful protest. If violence becomes the only way to win as you believe, ICE will put out a purchase order for a few LRADs or other “less-lethal” technologies that will make it hard for organized armed resistance to hold a gun straight. And further, at the first sign the administration can muster up a flimsy excuse to do a “MOVE bombing”, they certainly will.

    Elections are state level, and while the fascists and gestapos are trying over and over to take it over from the states, so far it’s not working out. The MN boycott and national day of action happened last month and I don’t think they are saying “mission accomplished, we don’t need to do anything else” in response to 2000 of 3000 federal thugs sticking around. Various other groups are also organizing, like the supporters of Haitian refugees in Ohio, who will use these moments to organize and over the next few months become part of a national resistance network. Then there will be more options for aggressive and non-aggressive tactics.







  • Because the national momentum is going to fizzle out quickly if there’s no end in sight and no concrete achievable demand.

    I will assume you are asking genuinely, but I hope you realize that every step that has prepared people to strike has been disparaged by people saying “not enough!”

    I don’t think such a strong yet peaceful resistance to ICE could have happened without the series of No Kings protests.

    I don’t think that the statewide strike could have happened without the persistent yet peaceful protest and resistance.

    I don’t think the national one day strike could happen tomorrow without some evidence of it being successful and effective at the state-level, which it was.

    An ongoing strike will be more likely to be successful if it follows a series of one day strikes. Yet a certain contingent cries “forever national strike now”, as if that can manifest itself just by saying it. So I’m sorry if you’re taking heat for a genuine concern, but it follows a long line of other users questioning if any action is “enough”.

    In the realm of strike action, it’s like rotating strikes for an industry or work-to-rule instead of going directly to an all out work stoppage. These are tools you need to take time and prepare to use, and use them effectively. America’s not used to resisting the federal apparatus en masse like this in decades. Allow people some time and training. And I don’t imagine tomorrow will be the last day people decide to take action to resist the Trump admin.