I keep reading Letter From a Birmingham Jail.
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I keep reading Letter From a Birmingham Jail. Dr. King lays out the purpose of a protest. I can't help but notice how divorced the #NoKings movement is from those tenants.
If a protest doesn't have a call to action or a means of pressure to bring decision makers to the negotiating table, then it's not a protest. It's a gathering.
I fear so much of mainstream "direct action" is a way to keep us busy and feeling accomplished. We don't know any better because we don't have real activist leaders.
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I keep reading Letter From a Birmingham Jail. Dr. King lays out the purpose of a protest. I can't help but notice how divorced the #NoKings movement is from those tenants.
If a protest doesn't have a call to action or a means of pressure to bring decision makers to the negotiating table, then it's not a protest. It's a gathering.
I fear so much of mainstream "direct action" is a way to keep us busy and feeling accomplished. We don't know any better because we don't have real activist leaders.
@fromjason Hm! I would love to better understand how this actually plays out empirically, because some describe these actions as placating/momentum-robbing while others describe them as foundational and momentum-building. Perhaps not everyone is impacted in the same way. I think it would be good to actually know how this works if we are taking our movement-building seriously.
Do you have any resources that you trust on this topic? -
@fromjason Hm! I would love to better understand how this actually plays out empirically, because some describe these actions as placating/momentum-robbing while others describe them as foundational and momentum-building. Perhaps not everyone is impacted in the same way. I think it would be good to actually know how this works if we are taking our movement-building seriously.
Do you have any resources that you trust on this topic?The Civil Rights Movement, The Black Panthers Movement, Young Lords, etc.
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The Civil Rights Movement, The Black Panthers Movement, Young Lords, etc.
We could create an entire movement just by following what Dr. king wrote in a Letter From a Birmingham Jail.
https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html
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I keep reading Letter From a Birmingham Jail. Dr. King lays out the purpose of a protest. I can't help but notice how divorced the #NoKings movement is from those tenants.
If a protest doesn't have a call to action or a means of pressure to bring decision makers to the negotiating table, then it's not a protest. It's a gathering.
I fear so much of mainstream "direct action" is a way to keep us busy and feeling accomplished. We don't know any better because we don't have real activist leaders.
Was just reading this today as part of our school's in-service day work, focusing on social justice in our educational practices.
It was an ah-ha moment for me to remember that "the abolition
movement was the foundation of virtually all social justice movements in the U.S." We would all do well to study it, I think.https://www.zinnedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/_pda/2018/04/If_there_is_no_struggle.pdf
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I keep reading Letter From a Birmingham Jail. Dr. King lays out the purpose of a protest. I can't help but notice how divorced the #NoKings movement is from those tenants.
If a protest doesn't have a call to action or a means of pressure to bring decision makers to the negotiating table, then it's not a protest. It's a gathering.
I fear so much of mainstream "direct action" is a way to keep us busy and feeling accomplished. We don't know any better because we don't have real activist leaders.
@fromjason There is a call to action during every single call put on by Indivisible. The whole #NoKings movement is about training citizens to answer calls to action and not be passive bystanders.
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