This is what putting people in a pressure cooker of $8/hr minimum wage, state violence and $1500/mo rents yields.
Also, whatever you think of this action (I happen to be against it because it’s illegal.), acknowledge that mobilizing this many people is the result of invisible forms of organizing, not neccesarily legible to the “left” whose traditions cross-polinate with the professionalized activism of ngos, labor unions and political parties.
It’s just a shame that it was expressed this way. We need major social democratic reforms and avenues for disenfranchised people to exercise political power so these kinds of desperate actions don’t disrupt our lives.
The provocative title is a way to call attention to the ways that overseas reporting and domestic reporting on social conflict differ. A detournament of imperialist propaganda if you will.
If we have a few options that don’t work, that means we need to find new options. I don’t see how trying one thing that doesn’t work makes sense just because other things don’t work.
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That falls under options that don’t work, or at least don’t work very well.
We clown on libs for deifying elections despite how little they change. Protests and looting have a similar effect but we don’t hold them to the same level of scrutiny.