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barely-coherent-anarchist · 2 years

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non-disruptive protest doesn't work.

aside from the fact that the point of a protest is to cause enough disruption that the government is forced to concede, there's also another element to this that i personally feel is more prevalent, especially these days with governments across the world cracking down on protest rights.

the way i see it, as do many others on the left, is that if protest is meant to force the hand of the state via disruption, but the state is the one to define what "acceptable" protest is, then there would never be a protest that works, as the state will inevitably only define protests that don't threaten the status quo as acceptable, thus preventing any real change from happening.

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if-you-fan-a-fire · 2 years

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“As the two-spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community has gained acceptance from the dominant culture and even recognition as a lucrative consumer group, Pride events have at times become a source of tension in the community.

Some embrace them as a colourful cultural celebration of liberties already won; others regret seeing Pride being used by corporations and in marketing campaigns while the continued struggles of more marginalized members of the community are moved to the sidelines.

Those perspectives will be juxtaposed Saturday in Thunder Bay, Ont., beginning with a protest march called Pride is a Protest — which has the support of the city's established Pride organizer, Thunder Pride.

Later in the day, Thunder Pride and the Rainbow Collective will hold two events more conventionally associated with Pride: an afternoon street festival and nighttime drag show.

'Taking matters into our own hands'

Protest co-organizers Lak Williams and Sarah DiBiagio said they organized the march after learning that Thunder Pride didn't have the resources to hold a formal Pride parade this year.

"A lot of our community members, especially people who have finally come out of the closet this year, they were so excited to be a part of the Pride parade but left disappointed or beyond disappointed because some of our questions weren't even able to be answered," Williams said.

"We're taking matters into our own hands and ensuring that Pride is more than just like a party. Everybody knows it started as a protest."

Some people had expressed concerns to the duo about losing out on the opportunity to march proudly through the streets, DiBiagio said, while others were frustrated with corporate-sponsored parades.

"A lot of the events that are being held this year for Pride Month do revolve around partying, alcohol consumption and pay-to-plays," she added.

"The average cost of one of the drag shows is around $30. So that's also a way that Pride has been limited this year for a lot of people who needed access to it."

This year is a particularly important one to return politics to Pride, DiBiagio said, as the rights of two-spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans/non-binary people have come under attack, particularly in the United States.

As well, Ontario Provincial Police are investigating after Pride decorations and flags in several communities were torn up, cut and shredded.

"It's very troublesome to see how backwards it's going," said Scotia Kauppi, the new executive secretary and treasurer of Thunder Pride.

Kauppi said she takes seriously the concerns raised to activists like Williams and DiBiaigio, and the organization has tried to be transparent about the reasons for not holding the Pride parade this year.

"Our board was down to nothing, and with COVID-19, our funding was not there," she said. "We didn't have the resources or volunteers to even start parade planning. Parade planning has to start in, like, January."

Thunder Pride put out notices earlier in the year looking for new directors; it is now one short of a full complement, though the organization currently has no Indigenous board members, Kauppi said, something she is trying to rectify.

The struggle to attract board members has multiple sources, she said.

"With COVID, there was such a lull where we couldn't really do anything anyway," Kauppi said. "But there was also drama that happened before.… It did obviously leave a bad taste in people's mouths about our board and about our association."

In 2020, the organization announced it had suspended a member for racism and that two board members were also being suspended.

Later that summer, then-board chair Jason Veltri resigned following public criticism of his handling of an initiative to bring rainbow crosswalks to the city.

In Veltri's resignation letter, he said it was time for him to step back as the organization reformed its governance structure. He said it was time for him to step aside for a "new generation of leaders to step up and continue building for the future."

Thunder Pride worked with Veltri's new organization, Rainbow Collective, on some of this year's Pride events.

"I'm a very olive branch type of person," Kauppi said.”

#thunder bay #pride #pride is a protest #political protest #protest politics #2slgbt #police violence #police brutality #2SLGBTq #thunder pride #local politics #canadian politics #ontario politics

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captainjonnitkessler · 5 months

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Sometimes I wish we would start calling out the performative radicalism on this site for the poser bullshit it is. "Remember, it's always morally correct to kill a cop!" "Don't forget to firebomb your local government office!" "Wow, it sure would be a shame if these instructions on how to make a molotov cocktail got spread around!"

Okay. But you're not killing cops or firebombing government offices. You are posting on a dying microblogging website to a carefully-curated echo chamber that has radicalized itself into thinking that taking the absolute most extreme position on any subject is praxis but that anyone discussing the most practical way to effect actual change is your sworn enemy. You do not have the street cred OR the activist cred to be talking about killing cops, babe.

#thinking about the person i saw saying that if you're at a protest #and other protesters try to stop you from becoming violent you should just kill them bc 'peace police are still police'#even taken as hyperbole that's simply dumb as shit on every conceivable level #it's also pretty blatantly hypocritical coming from people who are usually self-avowed prison/death penalty abolitionists #like i'm sorry but you don't get to be a death penalty abolitionist and also call for the death of your political enemies online #this isn't a major issue or anything i'm just bored and annoyed

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wonderlandmoonrose7 · 5 months

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I’m just here to remind everyone once again that we can’t stop protesting and boycotting and spreading the word for Palestine, even if it’s been a while. The people in power (mainly the Israeli and US governments) are relying on us losing steam.

And I do want to mention that a small bit of hope to be found among all of this is that things aren’t losing steam. I still see dozens of posts about Palestine every day, I see footage of protests almost every day, and the boycotts are working. I just want to encourage everyone that we just need to keep it up! I’ve seen so many social issues fade out over time, a week of outrage and then things settle down, but that isn’t the case here and I really respect everyone who’s still posting and protesting and seeking out information to end this once and for all. Focus on that hope, and use it to keep going :)

#palestine #pro palestine #free palestine #israel #anti israel #us politics #world politics #social issues #protest #boycott #from the river to the sea palestine will be free

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politijohn · 6 months

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Stand with Palestine // Oct 2023

Chicago, IL

London, UK

Sanaa, Yemen

Mexico City, Mexico

Jakarta, Indonesia

The Hague, Netherlands

Barcelona, Spain

Geneva, Switzerland

Colombo, Sri Lanka

New York, NY

#free Palestine #Palestine #international politics #news #current events #protest #activism #politics #world affairs #war #the left

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kvtnisseverdeen · 6 months

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THE WORLD STANDS WITH PALESTINE 🇵🇸

#FREE PALESTINE #!!!!!!#its been over 70 years #and the world is finally waking up #better late than never #proud of everyone for speaking up!! protesting!! sharing on social media!!#proud of people who wont stand for genocide and apartheid #palestine #pro palestine #politics #mine*#gifs*

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robotpussy · 3 months

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"No protester should be able to evade justice by wearing a face covering

That's why we're banning them.

Offenders could receive up to a £1,000 fine and a month in prison."

mask off, full blown fascism

#uk politics #like hm 'CERTAIN PROTESTS'.... i wonder which protests they're talking about....

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animentality · 1 year

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#twitter #us politics #france #france protests #george floyd protests

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whydidisavethistomyphone · 2 months

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Comic by smoothdunk on twitter

#mental illness #political #protest #aaron bushnell #smoothdunk #comic

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directactionforhope · 2 months

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U.S. Free Palestine Protests this Weekend: 2/17 through 2/19

2/17 Denver, Colorado Indianapolis, Indiana San Diego, California Seattle, Washington

2/18 Boone, North Carolina Milwaukee, Wisconsin New Orleans, Louisiana

2/19 Aransas Pass, Texas Chicago, Illinois Los Angeles, California - Jews for Ceasefire All-Day Shiva

And there are many more! Check out the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights, Code Pink, and your local Palestinian and/or Muslim groups for protests in your area!

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igottatho · 2 months

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Yesssss GET THEMMMMmmmmm

ETA: Nancy Pelosi is pressing charges against activists (I’m unclear if it’s the same people as above, tho in this case It’s Red paint and not manure) for $400 in damages to her property (that’s right a multi-billionaire is bringing felony charges against protestors).

#free palestine #palestine #gaza #free gaza #Rafah #save Rafah #israel lies #israel is a terrorist state #stop israel #us politics are manure #protesting #keep protesting #hands off Rafah #nancy pelosi #they should be harassed everywhere they go

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barely-coherent-anarchist · 2 years

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CW: police violence

video of police officers tackling and restraining someone for rollerskating in the direction of the queen's funeral procession.

totally normal island, nothing to see here /s

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if-you-fan-a-fire · 2 years

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“Upwards of 260 unemployed Great War pensioners occupied the grounds of Winnipeg’s Deer Lodge Hospital for 10 weeks in the wet, tumultuous summer of 1935. By then in their late 40s, as young soldiers they had endured the trenches for the British empire and democracy, only to return with broken bones, gunshot and shrapnel wounds, hearing loss, compromised eyesight, gassed lungs, and indescribable trauma and shell shock. Scarred but not scarred enough to warrant more than a partial pension and the red tape and inquisitions of the postwar pension bureaucracy, these were Canada’s supposedly “deserving” veterans who, during the Great Depression, joined the gunny-sack parades, milled about at cenotaphs, begged at street corners, and slept in flophouses. The unprecedented government and medical rehabilitation interventions designed to enable these disabled veterans to “move on,” “overcome,” readjust to life on civvy street, and ideally disappear into the able-bodied civilian population, had failed these injured ex-servicemen. By engaging in direct action, disabled veterans unsettled a state, mainstream lobbyists, medical authorities, and a civilian society intent on proving it had done right by its injured warriors. In their exposure of their “ungrateful bodies,” the occupiers of Deer Lodge Hospital undermined their status as privileged and deserving and were reinscribed “as radical, but also physically and socially aberrant. Eclipsed at the time and in posterity by the infamous communist-inspired On-to-Ottawa Trek, the Deer Lodge occupation is a missing engagement in the “second battle” that ex-servicemen waged for welfare entitlements. This tent-city initiative of the Canadian War Disability Pensioners’ Association (CWDPA) complicates Desmond Morton and Glenn Wright’s classic assessment that “on the whole, Canadian pensioners were protected from depression-era economies.” The Deer Lodge camp-out evinces the intersecting class, rank, disability, ethnic, and gendered discontents which radicalized some of Canada’s “heroes.” The mainstream media adopted military, class, and anticolonial metaphors to explain the pensioners’ dissent, describing the direct action as a “siege,” a “picket,” and a form of “passive resistance.”

The Deer Lodge demonstration is a forgotten campaign in the moral economy of the Great War. “Moral economy” herein refers to the ways in which pensioners experienced and responded to shifting cultural norms, meanings, practices, and policies around what was considered fair and just for Canada’s war disabled. When the war injured perceived these norms were violated, it provoked their protest and animated a distinct disabled veterans’ identity. The Great War and its aftermath, suggests historian Craig Heron, was a crucible of national class formation and “saturated daily life with principles of sacrifice, public service, democracy, and justice, which could be turned back on businessmen and politicians who appeared to violate these principles.” The Deer Lodge siege was one moment in the disabled veterans’ “struggle for recognition” wherein they sought to test the boundaries of obligation and make visible the gulf between the sacrifices they made relative to the social assistance they were afforded Like the ex-servicemen in the interwar years who hijacked trains, dined-and-dashed at restaurants, marched to Ottawa, and occupied government buildings, the CWDPA engaged in a class struggle motivated not just by exploitation, but, more significantly, by outrage over broken promises and the erosion of working-class expectations and customary entitlements. Modest in their demands but radical in their tactics, the CWDPA drew upon soldier and worker experience and traditions to pressure the state to honour its vows to “heroes” over yielding to its aversion to the “pension evil.” A set of ideals born from earlier labour and trade union struggles— just reward, fair exchange, a square deal, a belief that labour, not markets, were the source of value, the inequality of conscription (of men, but not wealth)—found resonance and new purchase in the interwar mobilizations of disabled pensioners.

“It would be necessary to live, feel and experience an existence almost devoid of the things that tend to make life worth while,” the future Deer Lodge occupiers told Prime Minister R. B. Bennett in late 1933, in the unlikely event he wanted to “actually understand” their conditions. They shared with Bennett the “vivid but true story of how … [they as] once fine soldiers of Canada continue[d] on Life’s Highway.” Although these protesters portrayed their “lot” as “degrading and pitiful,” their struggle also evinces a strength too often obscured by portrayals of the war disabled as passive recipients of charity.

Unpacking Great War survivors’ privilege, tactics, and aims becomes more complicated if dissident veterans’ activities during the interwar years are considered. In 1935, the trauma resulting from war, convalescence, disability, poverty, and the government’s failure to fulfill its end of the Great War moral economy united many unemployed pensioners. The CWDPA offered in-group psychological benefits in which shared rituals and a sense of belonging tempered felt exclusions both from government aid and among civilians and even other veterans. Although these convalescent comrades fought for rights-based welfare based on their military service and war injuries, remarkably, their identity-based politics rarely pivoted on the sexism and nativism so ubiquitous within the Canadian Legion. Instead, they demanded equality of treatment with civilians, aligned themselves with the Left and labour, exposed the capitalist motives for war and the suffering it caused, and sought generous and inclusive state interventions in the matters of public health and poverty.”

- David Thompson, “Convalescent Comrades: The 1935 Siege of Winnipeg's Deer Lodge Hospital,” Histoire sociale / Social History, Volume 54, Numéro/Number 110, Mai/May 2021. p. 69-72.

#winnipeg #tent city #military hospital #political protest #canadian veterans #canadian veterans in politics #military pension #disability in history #disability #war wounded #war invalids #Canadian War Disability Pensioners’ Association #great depression in canada #canadian history #academic quote #academic research #working class struggle #bennett government #protest politics

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bonesashesglass · 5 months

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They only blocked the bill because the package didn’t include aid to Ukraine, it’s a small step but it’s still a step.

In the meantime, we need to keep sharing, posting, and calling or messaging our reps. Even just talking about it with people goes a long way to spreading the word of what Israel is doing.

Let’s keep it up. We won’t stop until Palestine is free 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

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politijohn · 11 days

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So this feels important…

#politics #us politics #scotus #Supreme Court #news #current events #protest #public action #government #the left #progressive #important #direct action #activism

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nientedal · 5 months

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What progress at home has biden enacted? What policies of his show that he is making progress that prove he is actually different than trump?

I like to pretend I have faith in humanity, so I'll answer as if you're asking this in good faith.

Biden's DEA has lifted restrictions on telehealth prescriptions to make appointments and assistance more accessible.

He put a funding package into place to help unhoused people get access to mental and physical healthcare, as well as short-term and long-term housing.

He has attempted and is still attempting to get student debt relief through - this was blocked by Republican judges appointed by Trump, but he's still working on it.

Infrastructure repair - his administration has budgeted funds to actually fix some severely-damaged and frequently-traveled bridges.

Trying to expand access to healthcare to include undocumented immigrants who came to the USA as children (Dreamers) under the Affordable Care Act. Support for Navigator programs and outreach has also been increased.

He has vetoed Republican-led bills that were attempting to overturn environmental protections - one that would have forbidden investment fund managers to consider climate change in their portfolios (I have two degrees in accounting and this is actually huge), and another that would have overturned restrictions on agricultural runoff into our waterways.

He and his administration worked for ages to get rail workers paid sick days.

This is just some of what he's been doing. Meanwhile, Trump and other Republicans want to criminalize the lives of LGBT people like you and me. They want to eliminate no-fault divorce and force births that will kill parents or devastate them financially. They have stated flat out that they want to install a military dictatorship in the USA. They attempted to put that in motion on January 6th, 2021. They failed once. They will do better next time.

One party wants to house the homeless and expand social safety nets, while the other one wants to criminalize homelessness. One of them wants a future in which I might be able to vote to change how much of a war machine my country is, while the other one wants to eliminate my ability to vote entirely. Those are not the same. Those literally are opposites.

At the end of the day, all you and I can do is choose to do the least amount of harm possible. You and I cannot choose to do no harm. This is the USA, we sell war, you and I cannot choose to do no harm. I wish we could, my god do I wish we could, but that is not an option. So we grieve for the harm we couldn't eliminate and work to minimize the harm that is done. Despite all the crap they support, Democrats are the minimum amount of harm right now. Acting like they aren't is exactly what brought us to an election where our options are a future where we are either wading in blood or drowning in it.

Not voting for Biden will not help Palestine. Not voting for Biden will guarantee a Republican president who will make the situation in Palestine WORSE. AND it'll hurt a lot of other places as well, both at home and abroad, because Republicans are about business and the USA is in the business of war! And I would very much like that to change someday! I would very much like to someday be able to choose to do no harm! And I know what I have to do to try for that future, so what are YOU going to do? There is no standing off to the side in this. If you aren't helping pull, you're the dead weight we're pulling. Are you going to dig your feet into the mud and blood and drown us there? Or are you going to get the fuck off your ass, grit your teeth, and help us pull free?

#askbasket #iam-the-wild #us politics #israel #palestine #if you do not vote blue you do not get to call yourself an antifascist #i HATE that that's the case; don't mistake me #but that is the reality we're working with #there isn't any other #do nothing and kill five people or act and kill one.#so what are you gonna do? i can't choose for you. but i know what my choice is.#i'm part of this world. and as much as i hate it...turning away is not one of the options.#we fight on ALL fronts #we protest we donate we write we call #AND WE ALSO FUCKING VOTE FOR THE LEAST OF THE EVILS. BECAUSE NO EVIL IS NOT AN OPTION.

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