Diligence JonesOct 19

People: Your signs are cute but what's your plan?????? What are you going to doooooo?

BIPOC Communities: We're organizing, mobilizing, and getting ready.

People: But I don't see you doing it. What are you *doinngggggg*? What's your plan?

This is what a lot of snooty fucking lefty bros/people sound like. Like, bro, wtf are YOU doing?

Folks demanding a plan like they want to copy someone else's homework.

Fuck, *do your own homework.*

Yesterday, I listened to a tiny trabajadora describe in Spanish the work she and the other trabajadores are doing to protect each other while ICE kidnaps them and decimates their families. She asked for people to join them and help them.

THAT'S THE FUCKING PLAN.

FUCK.
Ypipo, man.

FUCK! What are you looking for? Some Project 2025-like outline for a radically different social order? No one has time for that! FUCK.

Happy Sunday.

Show threadDiligence Jones
That fucking thread fucking annoyed me, man.
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Show threadDiligence JonesOct 19

This is one of the slides from the big Bay Get Ready community NonCooperation training some friends went to a couple weekends ago.

I would posit that this looks like A Plan. It's not the only Plan but it looks good for right now.

I would also posit that it's a hard plan. It's not a technical plan like Project 2025. It's a difficult adaptive challenge. And that's why folks will be like, This isn't a plan; this isn't going to work. They're looking for technical rubrics. Sorry, dude. Shit is hard.

Show threadDiligence JonesOct 19

Later in the presentation they talk about the role of marches/rallies/vigils = these are symbolic actions that *by themselves* won't trigger a u-turn. The energy and solidarity of these moments need to be built on with alternative infrastructures of taking care of one another AND mass noncooperation in many different forms.

I get the frustration folks have with costumery and drumming. I was that person, too. Like, in June I was that person.

But seeing it as ONE tool in a toolbelt helps me see a broader context.

Show threadJonOct 19

@DeliaChristina yeah really, 1000%. great thread.

@JulianOliver this is a good example of what I was talking about in terms of the kinds of strategic organizing that are happening here that might not be getting a lot of coverage internationally (and are certainly underrepresented on social media, including fedi).

Show threadDiligence JonesOct 19

@jdp23 @JulianOliver

Yeah, the incursion here in the Bay area is a little more subtle than in other cities. Chicago and Portland (and DC) have all the visuals.

Here, the action is happening in courtrooms, workplaces, homes, and in contracts - the massive plan to build a detention center in Dublin is a flashpoint and probably needs more visibility and people joining that effort to stop it.

I have no idea what the posture of city/county leadership is, yet. But I think there are groups doing quiet inside lobbying to get them to *not* cooperate with the feds. There must be.

Show threadJonOct 19

Things are similar in the Puget Sound area. And a lot of the organizing is the continuation of stuff that's been happening all along -- rapid response networks, pressuring cities and counties to limit cooperation, protesting the deportation flights from the Renton airport and the detention center in Tacoma.

@DeliaChristina @JulianOliver

Show threadJulian OliverOct 19

@jdp23 @DeliaChristina This is very encouraging, and indeed completely new to me. I greatly value the insights

Let it be said once again that I am one of millions with little but dreadful news from afar.

As such, reading of these decentralised and localised insurrections, ad hoc and organised resistance, is salve somewhat.

Show threadDavid FleetwoodOct 19
@JulianOliver @jdp23 @DeliaChristina In a mass surveillance state elucidating large plans merely guarantees they are undermined before they gain traction. We know the things that work, this isn't our first rodeo, people who don't "know the plan" need to make themselves available to be called on by those who are taking action rather than demanding a powerpoint.
Show threadZack SternOct 19

@DeliaChristina I wanted that event to be more actionable but they did a good job explaining to people like me how much community infrastructure we need. [edit: before we can do the most direct-action pushback.]

In the end the biggest action they urged is to get connected to local people on your block or neighborhood. That’s the core of the infrastructure we need to disrupt the fascist systems.

… and more to follow from them once we individuals build this up.

https://www.bayresistance.org

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Show threadThe Crafty MissOct 20
@DeliaChristina The concept of yes and no coalitions with both being important is so helpful