DC last night:
- https://twitter.com/loran076/status/1323907767887867904?s=19
- https://twitter.com/FranceNews24/status/1323917050369245185?s=19
- https://hexbear.net/post/47055
it's more likely in the next few days that the fash will take the streets, especially as trump announces how he will contest the election. after all, chaos is his best bet for getting the powers that be to allow him to retain power without a fight. so don't fucking tell people to stay home. it's absolutely critical that everyone pays attention to what's happening in their own backyards and steps up to engage in appropriate community defense.
the election is just a stage. stop confusing it with the conditions that compel people to act.
Not sure there are any disagreements from me on this point. I previously mentioned fighting for the "best feasible version" of a given demand in my previous comment, which should certainly involve some form the "yes, and" approach to formulating demands.
Rather than simply calling for M4A, we should call for, at minimum, M4A and an NHS and to place hospitals and pharma companies under public and democratic working-class ownership. Rather than just calling for a GND with a just transition, we should call for an ecosocialist GND with a just transition and to fund it through taxing the rich, shifting money away from the military, and expropriating the GHG-emitting sectors and giving them to the workers to plan a serious climate response. Rather than simply calling for increasing testing/tracing and social distancing like some of the libs are doing, we cut through the false dilemma between public health and immediate economic needs by calling for socially-supported social distancing - not just stimulus checks/temporary UBI, but rent and mortgage freezes for nonessential workers, and dramatic increases in pay (hazard pay!) and increased workplace safety for the essential workers - nothing less than a living wage for those who have to work and a living income for those who can't, calling on the essential workers to use their collective leverage to strike to make the capitalists pay for it all.
We can reach people at their current level of consciousness by using the vulgar/popular/minimalist demands as a starting point, rephrasing them and fleshing them out in this fashion to point people away from reformism and toward the difficult but necessary work of organizing with the goal of socialist revolution in mind.
I'm all ears with respect to the ideas you had in mind, once you have a chance to post again.
agreed on all points and I like this approach. cheers!