While mostly white “leftists” were inventing strategies based on missing analysis, there was an organization in the city doing all of this better: Community Movement Builders.

A critical appraisal of recent struggles in Atlanta

  • a_fanonist_hexagon [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    It does point to an organization doing adult literacy, political education, and other programs in a neighborhood that's actually being occupied by police. I don't know about being able to stop Cop City at this point but generally it sounds like a better, or at least more direct, strategy for building class consciousness than the DSA or forest camp strageties.

    • BatCountryMusicFan [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Well ok, sure, in the long term I agree, but then that's not really offering up anything helpful to answer the immediate question of "how do we stop cop city from getting built?"

      Unless the author's implicit argument is that cop city is just one more hit we'll have to take on the chin. Which, yeah, it probably is.

      • a_fanonist_hexagon [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        I think the other point that they get to with quoting Kwame Ture is that we need to keep our eye on the ball of long term organization rather than short term mobilization. Yes, it probably is, but if we view that only through the lens of failed mobilization we can be defeatist instead of recognizing the need for longer term work.