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white folks:
if every white person on twitter just RTed and donated all day and then just walked away from the issue, we wouldn't fix anything longterm.
they're helpful, but they're also just convenient ways for us to feel involved without doing anything uncomfortable.
if every white person on twitter just RTed and donated all day and then just walked away from the issue, we wouldn't fix anything longterm.
they're helpful, but they're also just convenient ways for us to feel involved without doing anything uncomfortable.
to quote @Jodi7768: "allyship is a disposition, a confrontation not with state or capitalist power but with one’s own discomfort."
it's not enough to be an ally, to be not racist. to be a comrade, however, is to be antiracist.
here are other ACTIONS that you can take TODAY:
it's not enough to be an ally, to be not racist. to be a comrade, however, is to be antiracist.
here are other ACTIONS that you can take TODAY:
-be the emergency contact if your friends are going to protests. check in with them regularly by text. know the contact info for local on-the-ground support groups/precincts/aid that you can forward to them or anyone they're protesting with
-learn about implicit bias. take an implicit bias test, like the one from harvard. implicit biases are something we ALL have- i have a lot of heavy ones from growing up in a very white town- and we carry them our entire lives. confront your internalized fears of other people.
-specifically share/join local protests that your local friends can join, even if you are not able to make it out.
PSL is hosting #canceltherent car caravans on saturday. @OurUnitedLeft is compiling a list of protests specifically to honor george floyd: https://twitter.com/OurUnitedLeft/status/1266266920354889729?s=20
PSL is hosting #canceltherent car caravans on saturday. @OurUnitedLeft is compiling a list of protests specifically to honor george floyd: https://twitter.com/OurUnitedLeft/status/1266266920354889729?s=20
-learn what gear to bring to protests and how to participate in them. stick closely to people you know. if you can find a local advocacy group/political party to protest with, that's a good way to not go in alone. if things might get heated, overprepare: http://www.hopesandfears.com/hopes/city/how-to-gear-up/216551-what-to-wear-protest
-MAKE ART!
i've been making signs for the last two weeks for our protest on saturday. write chants. write poetry. bring a drum to the protest and come up with a beat to play. ask experienced organizers how to make flags or picket signs. ART IS RESISTENCE. https://twitter.com/PSLchicago/status/1264569158215360512?s=20
i've been making signs for the last two weeks for our protest on saturday. write chants. write poetry. bring a drum to the protest and come up with a beat to play. ask experienced organizers how to make flags or picket signs. ART IS RESISTENCE. https://twitter.com/PSLchicago/status/1264569158215360512?s=20
-encourage class consciousness. talk to friends about the working class struggle and how racism is ingrained in it. be patient. know that it is a very tough topic and people will push back, but do not wait for your friends at the leftist finish line. guide them to the right path.
-volunteer to assist protests remotely if you can't make it out there physically. you can help with IT, coordination, social media, communication, documentation. there's SO much that can be done from home and is still action.
-follow black activists, especially local ones, then follow their lead. support local predominantly-black nonprofits and MA programs. donate locally, engage locally. violence isn't just in minnesota. it's on our doorsteps, whether we see it every day or not.
-get organizer training from a union or labor org as soon as you fucking can. if you can't, read like hell on how to organize.
all of this comes back to power. learn about power.
https://archive.iww.org/organize/training/
https://www.code-cwa.org/calendar
https://cwa-union.org/join-union/how-organize https://www.gameworkersunite.org/gwu-literature
all of this comes back to power. learn about power.
https://archive.iww.org/organize/training/
https://www.code-cwa.org/calendar
https://cwa-union.org/join-union/how-organize https://www.gameworkersunite.org/gwu-literature
-PLEASE read @Jodi7768's breakdowns of the limitations of allyship & the strengths of comradery. we need to step up. just feeling like racism is bad isn't enough. we need to actually show up to dismantle the systems that profit from racism. https://liberationschool.org/from-allies-to-comrades/
being "on the right side of history" or "not doing damage" will not make things better.
we can't just "not do damage." we need to undo damage, and that's going to be uncomfortable but we can't let uncomfortability get in the way of dismantling racist, imperialist systems.
we can't just "not do damage." we need to undo damage, and that's going to be uncomfortable but we can't let uncomfortability get in the way of dismantling racist, imperialist systems.
thinking about socialism is good.
thinking and talking about socialism is better.
but building a revolutionary socialist party is best of all.
thinking and talking about socialism is better.
but building a revolutionary socialist party is best of all.
