...Minimizing the impact of consistent episodic community-centered protests only serves interests of ruling elite and undermines efforts to build political pressure esp. on elected Dems

SUCCESSFUL CHANGE REQUIRES BOTH POLITICAL PRESSURE & COVER. WHICH CAN ONLY BE DONE AT THE SCALE OF MASS PROTESTS.

4/4

...protests help steel the public for fights ahead when the admin attempts another coup (even via executive orders) to prevent total washout in Nov

...Sustained protests also offer UNDENIABLE EVIDENCE of public's disgust for the admin, echoed in international protests against US imperialism also fascist & corrupt right wing in other countries

3/4

Personally I think some of the tactics from the 70s, especially from second wave feminism, are now mocked and derided so that people don’t dare to try things.

...Successful movements are sustained across time and consistent messaging, while building community connections.

...Recurring protests provide access points for normies to increase their threshold for public risk while also focusing country's attention to SIZE and SCOPE of resistance to policies

2/4

"These protests are important b/c:

...as sustained image events, they offer evidence of continued disapproval of the direction the country is going and disavowal of the country's leadership.

...provides political pressure for the country to change directions on ICE, war with Iran, tariffs, SAVE Act, public health, public education, public corruption

1/4

"You can be thrilled by the things that are happening and horrified by the things that should be happening but aren’t. Everything we can save is worth saving. Everything we can do is worth doing. We’ve already lost a lot, but we don’t have to lose everything."
"Changing the world is more like caregiving than like war. Too many people still expect it to look like war."

Rebecca Solnit:

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The increased visibility of opposition (especially dramatically in rural areas) has kept a lot of queer American kids and youths alive for another month, week, or day.