I'm already hearing about protests and actions being planned in my area, and some talk about how this summer's reaction to it could be similar to or bigger than 2020. Personally I don't know. The 2020 uprisings were global because white supremacy and police brutality are global, but I feel like the US is so particularly backwards regarding abortion that you'd have a hard time getting protests going in other countries where the right to choose is more well-protected.

  • silent_water [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    solidarity movements in other places aren't entirely useless. they establish a continuity between the events in different places, drawing a common thread between the mass struggle here and there. key though is that the outcome of such actions should result in direct ties and open lines of communication between orgs or nothing is built on the display of solidarity.

    • Z_Poster365 [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      Too bad in this case there were no organizations of note, very little building of relations & America has a distinctly unique relationship with race and blackness than almost anywhere else (certainly than Asia, Africa, Europe)

      • silent_water [she/her]
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        3 years ago

        that's not entirely true - some lines of communication did develop between local orgs and elsewhere. but I can't keep following this line of thought without helping to doxx myself so I'm gonna shut up here.

        • Z_Poster365 [none/use name]
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          3 years ago

          We will see. I hope there is organizational memory of 2020 that didn’t make it a complete waste, but I am skeptical. If anything, if the protests were to happen again I think the US government would be even more adept at crushing it this time

          • silent_water [she/her]
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            3 years ago

            I disagree, comrade. some of the best local organizers I know were radicalized by what they saw during the rebellion and there are entire orgs here that didn't exist before the rebellion. like, it's not all rosy - wreckers definitely strained relationships in the months since - but I've also seen capacity from this city I know for a fact it could not have produced prior to months of sustained action. there's no substitute for direct experience.

          • Nagarjuna [he/him]
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            3 years ago

            I hope there is organizational memory of 2020 that didn’t make it a complete waste

            There always is. I wish I could communicate to you kids how much more militant the left got after Occupy Wall Street.