I understand why this call is going out but I can't help recalling how such efforts led to rancor and strife within the Anti-War movement during the run-up to the second war on Iraq. So much energy goes into creating and supporting a hierarchy and it just replicates the same old top-down structures. Yes, a one-stop site to find actions s…
I understand why this call is going out but I can't help recalling how such efforts led to rancor and strife within the Anti-War movement during the run-up to the second war on Iraq. So much energy goes into creating and supporting a hierarchy and it just replicates the same old top-down structures. Yes, a one-stop site to find actions seems like a good idea, but if it's hacked and gets taken down, what then? Small and dispersed networks who share info are less vulnerable, they whack one down, pop up again somewhere else. Bird-dogging like VT did to Vance, let's do more. Protests with specific theme, like the National Parks one, are easy to organize, involve more people when long-distance travel isn't involved, pull in people for whom the issue is near and dear to their hearts, and can even be unifying rather than divisive.
Yes, I agree. Separate but together. I hear from people that they're overwhelmed trying to find information. If we had days we worked together and then separate events, it would be easier to drive mass numbers to those days.
I understand why this call is going out but I can't help recalling how such efforts led to rancor and strife within the Anti-War movement during the run-up to the second war on Iraq. So much energy goes into creating and supporting a hierarchy and it just replicates the same old top-down structures. Yes, a one-stop site to find actions seems like a good idea, but if it's hacked and gets taken down, what then? Small and dispersed networks who share info are less vulnerable, they whack one down, pop up again somewhere else. Bird-dogging like VT did to Vance, let's do more. Protests with specific theme, like the National Parks one, are easy to organize, involve more people when long-distance travel isn't involved, pull in people for whom the issue is near and dear to their hearts, and can even be unifying rather than divisive.
Yes, I agree. Separate but together. I hear from people that they're overwhelmed trying to find information. If we had days we worked together and then separate events, it would be easier to drive mass numbers to those days.