Remember CHAZ? We need to do that but feed kids instead of shooting them.
That and actually directly confronting and fighting the cops. Don't just stand around filming until we get shot with pepper balls or rubber slugs. Ideally build some barricades and take an important building or two. Maybe fry some bacon.
Of course this all requires significant organization, planning, and maybe some weapons, but if we can get to the level of the Paris Commune we're doing pretty good.
Please note, all of this is hypothetical and will never actually happen since President Biden solved racism so there will be no need for protests. I am in no way advocating armed insurrection and am a proud patriotic American who loves my country.
And I think what happened to it was very illuminating. Pigs waited like a year, then enlisted a local bootlickers group to tear all the barricades down alongside city workers in the early early morning, while the cops held back several blocks away. Then the local media reported all of it as "local citizens decide that GFS has gone on too long" or whatever. People tried to rebuild the barricades in the week or so after, but it was no use.
They've gone to significant lengths to make it seem like they didn't actually change much- kept up all the artwork and "just" allow traffic to move through it. But GFS is dead, and they killed it in a way that was a PR masterstroke
Yeah the commune idea has it's limits but I bet GFS was insightful to the people who were a part of it. As long as the pigs are on the other side, they'll beat you, so eventually you've got to go over and take them out too. Either that or you've got to take up guerilla war and put them on the defensive. Even though it's repeating the mistakes of the past, I think to some extent it's useful to rehearse these things in this century.
A significant number of the people involved with CHOP now believe it was bait that they fell for, fwiw. SPD went out of their way to create fake reports of chud attacks, they used the distraction of the folks involved with CHOP to run sweeps away from CHOP, increasing the density of people living in Cal Anderson to the point where problems were inevitable. All of that led to the shootings there. Rather than forcing the news to talk about police violence, the news was able to talk about nasty, gross CHAZ with its violence and unsanitary conditions.
i don't think any growing communist party would agree with your 2nd point to be honest. doing shit like that without any type of organization behind it is adventurism and serves no purpose other than being an escape valve for the anger that people feel but which achieves very little. besides, shit like this spooks people who are 'outsiders' but sympathetic to the movement and are afraid of getting hurt and/or arrested. it's also probably bad optics.
in my little experience organizing you do everything possible to keep newer people safe so that they don't feel scared, unprotected or anything of the sort. if they feel that way they won't come back.
Remember CHAZ? We need to do that but feed kids instead of shooting them.
That and actually directly confronting and fighting the cops. Don't just stand around filming until we get shot with pepper balls or rubber slugs. Ideally build some barricades and take an important building or two. Maybe fry some bacon.
Of course this all requires significant organization, planning, and maybe some weapons, but if we can get to the level of the Paris Commune we're doing pretty good.
Please note, all of this is hypothetical and will never actually happen since President Biden solved racism so there will be no need for protests. I am in no way advocating armed insurrection and am a proud patriotic American who loves my country.
That's what George Floyd Square was.
And I think what happened to it was very illuminating. Pigs waited like a year, then enlisted a local bootlickers group to tear all the barricades down alongside city workers in the early early morning, while the cops held back several blocks away. Then the local media reported all of it as "local citizens decide that GFS has gone on too long" or whatever. People tried to rebuild the barricades in the week or so after, but it was no use.
They've gone to significant lengths to make it seem like they didn't actually change much- kept up all the artwork and "just" allow traffic to move through it. But GFS is dead, and they killed it in a way that was a PR masterstroke
Yeah the commune idea has it's limits but I bet GFS was insightful to the people who were a part of it. As long as the pigs are on the other side, they'll beat you, so eventually you've got to go over and take them out too. Either that or you've got to take up guerilla war and put them on the defensive. Even though it's repeating the mistakes of the past, I think to some extent it's useful to rehearse these things in this century.
A significant number of the people involved with CHOP now believe it was bait that they fell for, fwiw. SPD went out of their way to create fake reports of chud attacks, they used the distraction of the folks involved with CHOP to run sweeps away from CHOP, increasing the density of people living in Cal Anderson to the point where problems were inevitable. All of that led to the shootings there. Rather than forcing the news to talk about police violence, the news was able to talk about nasty, gross CHAZ with its violence and unsanitary conditions.
i don't think any growing communist party would agree with your 2nd point to be honest. doing shit like that without any type of organization behind it is adventurism and serves no purpose other than being an escape valve for the anger that people feel but which achieves very little. besides, shit like this spooks people who are 'outsiders' but sympathetic to the movement and are afraid of getting hurt and/or arrested. it's also probably bad optics.
in my little experience organizing you do everything possible to keep newer people safe so that they don't feel scared, unprotected or anything of the sort. if they feel that way they won't come back.