Félicien BretonMicah White: "Occupy Wall Street taught us that the contemporary ideas and assumptions we have about #protests are false."
"The future of #activism is not about pressing our politicians through synchronized public spectacles." #demonstrations 🧶
Micah White: "I believe it is very important never to protest directly against the police. Because the police are actually made to absorb protest – the objective of the police is to dissipate your energy in protesting them so you'll let alone the most sensitive parts of the repressive regime in which we live: politicians and big corporations. We must #protest more deeply."
https://www.occupy.com/article/protest-broken-co-creator-occupy-wall-street-calls-new-mental-shift #strikes #quotes #policeViolence #politicalPhilosophy #violence #institutions #police #militancy
An Amnesty International guide entitled "Staying Resilient While Trying to Save the World / A Well-Being Workbook for Youth Activists": https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2021/01/well-being-workbook-shows-how-happiness-and-activism-can-co-exist/
#resource #brochure #selfDefence #militancy #militants #activism #activists #mentalHealth #wellBeing #resiliency
Félicien Breton 🍉 🔻 🌱"Anti-oppression, civil rights, and decolonization struggles clearly reveal that if resistance is even slightly effective, the people who struggle are in danger. The choice is not between danger and safety, but between the uncertain dangers of revolt and the certainty of continued violence, deprivation, and death."
~ Kate Khatib, in "We are Many: Reflections on Movement Strategy from Occupation to Liberation", 2012, via @RhinosWorryMe 🧵
#struggle #struggles #liberation #revolt #resource #selfDefence #militancy #militants #activism #activists #mentalHealth #safety #resiliency #quotes #resistance #personalSafety #stateViolence #violence #KateKhatib #risks
A push for new automation may be redirected to the workers’ well-being. Funneling must be done by workers actively involved. Here is a win: https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/yes-the-striking-dockworkers-were
#dockWorkers #workers #success #strike #win #labour #labor #organizing #unions #struggle #struggles #militancy #militants #activism #activists #safety #resiliency #personalSafety #collectiveSafety #risks #dockers #Longshoremen #Luddites #AIRisks #work
What NGOs like Greenpeace ultimately offer, according to @ClementSenechal, is “environmentalism as spectacle.”
'Of particular interest is Sénéchal’s treatment of the past and present of Greenpeace. Quite visibly at odds with his former employer, the author takes Greenpeace as representative of the decadence of official environmentalism. Eschewing a coherent critique of the environmental crisis, organizations like Greenpeace, according to Sénéchal, are more devoted to agitprop demonstrations and photo ops better geared to satisfying activist egos rather than advancing strategic goals.
'These contradictions were apparent from the 1970s':
https://jacobin.com/2025/03/environmentalism-climate-activism-ngos-policy
@climate 🧵
#activism #spectacle #environmentalism #book #agitprop #joy #career #struggle #struggles #liberation #demonstrations #militancy #militants #activism #activists #protests #politicalPhilosophy #institutionsDeceive #politics #lobbying #lobbies
“If we want to be able to see what’s happening, we’ll have to be in the front”
"Police hate to be outflanked—they can’t risk being surrounded themselves."
https://crimethinc.com/2025/01/28/its-safer-in-the-front-taking-the-offensive-against-tyranny
#fear #frontLine #struggles #Bush #GeorgeWBush #IraqWar #comrades #collectives #crowdManagement #WashingtonDC #anarchists #antiFascists #territory #kettling #responsibility #tearGas #agency #demos #demonstrations #protests
Here are some event planners (on shared hosting, FLOSS and net-neutral): https://www.chatons.org/en/search/by-service?service_type_target_id=255&field_alternatives_aux_services_target_id=All&field_software_target_id=All&field_is_shared_value=1&title=
via @ChatonsOrg
The Irish republican "tradition’s hardest won insight is this: the legitimacy of a grievance does not depend on the respectability of its expression. Irish diplomats spent thirty years explaining this to British counterparts who insisted there could be no negotiation while the IRA was bombing, that calm discussion could not happen while the law was being broken, that to engage with the grievance was to legitimise the method. Those diplomats were right and the British were wrong. The Good Friday Agreement happened because enough people on both sides eventually accepted that the legitimacy of a grievance had to be addressed on its own terms, regardless of the respectability of its expression. That insight was built in Belfast and Derry, Dundalk and Crossmaglen and the H-Blocks, by people who counted the dead. It is the most important political idea Ireland has given the world in a century, and it belongs to the tradition I write from."
If you are looking for explanation and context for the last week in Irish politics, read this: https://forlouth.medium.com/the-money-is-not-there-b6422f996612
#respectability #militancy #activism #protests #Ireland #Republicans
