If the Republicans can peel off voters from the most stable segment of your voter base with a free steak dinner and a movie, that just shows that you were giving them less than that
https://www.peoplesprograms.com/pbo It is still happening! Or rather, something like it.
In the year 2020 alone, we distributed:
- 18,500+ meals
- 9,000+ hygiene kits
- 300+ tents
- 500+ new pairs of shoes
- 18,000+ facial coverings
Goddamn, that's nuts. Should be doing this everywhere.
I know right? I don't know how to start something like this, but it sure would be nice to have locally.
That is roughly 50 meals a day! Amazing.
- Find friends
- Write an action plan
- ???
- Divide labor into teams
- Collect donations
- Distribute donations/goods
I think 3 could probably be explained by one of the numerous marketing nerds #onhere
- Set up a website and a Facebook event to make everything look all official. Ideally, run this by some friends with design experience for a once-over. You can set up a Google Talk number for people to call and inquire without handing out a cell phone and it makes you see like a local business or something. Alternately if you want more private VoIP, I like mySudo.
- Call local radio stations, especially on AM and talk radio, to see if they have a community calendar segment. They’ll tell you when it airs and on what frequency, so you can tune in and see what kind of other things are listed and what info they provide. Mock that format and give them a flyer to read off of. You can also ask if they do any pro bono ads for local charity (a lot of them do because it’s a tax write off)
- Seek out newspapers and zines. The big ones will usually blow you off or give you a standard quote for ad space. Still worth calling in case they have a journalist interested in what you’re doing. Alternately, read some articles and befriend a journalist whose shit you like. And then move onto smaller papers, zines, blogs, etc. Their ad space will be cheaper and they’ll be more willing to write a piece on you. This will have to scale appropriately for how populous your area is. The more people live in your area, the more obscure your connections will end up being. Still worth a try.
- Design flyers, print/cut them at a local print shop, and then walk into storefronts downtown and ask if you can hang one in their window. A lot of places will ask what it’s about and you can just act like it’s normal charity. Calling something a “benefit” is sufficiently broad for whatever you’re doing.
- Phone trees, group chats, and mass DMs are also effective. Organizing is fundamentally about building relationships, so the most reliable connections are the ones where you are legitimately close to the person and reach out personally as a friend.
Thank you!
A lot of this informal local advertising stuff is in place for small business owners and venue bookers to support each other and look community-oriented. I’ve been piggybacking off of it for decades and as long as you’re prepared for a lot of rejection, you can make some solid headway. If you’re trying to compete with a local event booker who’s got $1.5m in the bank, it’s not gonna get you far, but for DIY stuff like this it works great.
I think a lot of paralysis comes from thinking too big about this kind of stuff. When you break it down this way it sounds really manageable.
yeah facebook is a security risk, bad for everyone's mental health, and complicit in genocide so I'd rather not use it ever.
Yeah those concerns are understandable. I have a Facebook under a false name that I use for stuff like that but I live in such a small area that if the police wanna fuck me up they could show up at my mom’s house just as easy as they could show up at mine
Find friends
What are you even saying? What do you want from me next? To walk on the surface of the sun? Maybe I should start exploding things with my mind?
Find friends. I mean, honestly. I’m not like a Greek god or something that can just go out into the world and find friends. How would one even attempt such a ridiculous challenge?
“Oh, hello, stranger in the street. I was wondering if we had any common values and shared interests such that we might become friends. Perhaps I can interest you in some violent pornography and communism?”
Perhaps I can interest you in some violent pornography
I think you mixed up "friends" with "4channers", rookie mistake. You fish for commies with weed and [anti-volcel acts].
bring back the Black Panthers. (the "new black panthers" are totally unrelated, FYI.)
A local BLM group partnered with a local historical society and commissioned several statues commemorating our section of the Underground Railroad. When one of the statues was stolen by some fash fucks, the police wouldn’t put up patrols in that park, so we patrolled it ourselves. Long story short the mayor disavowed us and called for civility. The other statues got spray painted a week after cops starts patrolling the park to keep us out. Pig fucks probably did it themselves. If we’d had some more money we could’ve installed a nestcam in a tree or something to catch whoever did it. Shit’s over and done with now
That's how Christianity beat out paganism. Constantine went on a banging Easter egg hunt.
Voting logic:
Dems: Gave me nothing and told me I was garbage for asking.
Repubs: Told me I was garbage subhuman but DID give me dinner and a movie...
Seems like there is one difference and if I'm gonna bother to vote may as well be based on that.
Dems: Gave me nothing and told me I was garbage for asking.
Minor edit:
Dems: Promised me $2000, a cure for cancer, student loan relief, gave me nothing and told me I was garbage for bringing up the stuff they lied to me about.
Dems: "the republicans are always lying. So untrustworthy how can anyone vote for them"
:side-eye-1: :side-eye-2:
I swear some Dems took away from that speech that they should be more smug, elitist and estranged from poor people.
Because part of The post Obama strategy for Dems includes them completely moving out of impoverished areas to chase those sexy centrist bucks.
Leftist groups in some cities were moving in to provide in their sted (Detroit comes to mind) but it was sadly never enough since they didn’t have the funds.
If everyone can be bought and you claim you want to win, then buy them things. Shit.
And the snugness to think that they haven't been bought. Their needs were just met.
Because politics is about moral superiority, not material conditions :brainworms:
time for some good ole multicultural fascism :corporate-art:
perhaps the other will just be trans people this time. every race can agree that trans people are gross! :yea:
dirtbag leftists really do wish multicultural fascism becomes a reality.
constantly downplays every racial movement and talk about needing to be more class conscious
call anyone who talks about race and racism a lib
complains about multicultural fascism
:funny-clown-hammer:
wait does the left like "multicultural fascism" or not, idgi
do you people honestly believe multicultural fascism is a thing? It’s just fascism
I have to say that the dirt bag left has a lot of class reductionist people purposely avoiding discussion of race and other identity-based issues due to fear of appearing cringe/lib/sjw. They tend to oversimplify to a default answer of economically elevating all poor people to blunt the effects of discrimination and white supremacy faced by some, even when their "rising tide lifts all boats" approach makes it feel like the unique struggles of various marginalized communities are purposely being glossed over.
A lot of the right wing's scapegoating of CRT and "Gender Ideology" in schools has galvanized culturally conservative parents across races, and while Dems have definitely dropped the ball on this the dirt bag left has also offered no counter messaging because of their fear of sounding lib, their mistaken belief in the irrelevance of ALL culture based politics, and their own disdain toward academia.
i always think of a new and more horrifying zinger 2 seconds after hitting send
i would love to know where this type of 'virtuous voter' narrative comes from. Do other neoliberal countries have such an obsession with personal responsibility and being a "good" voter?
After jettisoning the labor movement from the machine its literally the only pitch they have left
Is this the big party realignment that’s coming? They’re bringing back machine politics?
Why spend fucking absurd amounts of money on advertising when you can get more votes just handing it almost directly to people at probably 1/10th the cost.
dems absolutely failing to beat the "modern plantation" allegations in their actions and rhetoric
I don't think the staffers know any non PMC black people, who honestly live a world apart from the Amanda Gormans and Hakeem Jeffries, and have cosmetic representation in leading institutions as maybe their 5th or 6th priority.
I hope at least some in the Dem inner circle know how little young non-elite black people care for Kamala Harris, and how many of them don't even consider her black, and that old black people and white suburbanites are the only people who call her "kween" and shit.
You mean they are organizing offline and providing alienated people with a taste of community? Imagine that!
I see the same shit from the New Atheist crowd. Literally no understanding as to why churches have endured for thousands of years. "Uh, people were just stupid!" No conception of a public meeting space or community group or mutual aid.
What could we expect from redditors who were personally averse to public meeting spaces and likely too comfortable to need mutual aid.
The United States will turn into a fascist police state because the DNC is too lame to arrange an Easter egg hunt.
extremely offline
Fuckers are learning while libs will only care more and more about twitter. Goddamn we can't lose this one too. We have to push more offline stuff.
This sounds like what evangelical churches do when they roll into town. This tracks.
What is the DNC busy spending their money on? Consultants, Jennis ice cream (but only for their staffers), running ads in primary campaigns to prevent the party from moving to the left at all, etc.
Make work staff jobs for kids of their friends on Martha's Vineyard, and copywriters for (no lie, I got this once) email blasts asking Dems to thank the Lincoln Project.
