A call went out on the neighborhood Whatsapp this evening that a stalker was on some lady's front lawn bothering her, so a bunch of people went to sit out on their porches with baseball bats until the cops came and shoo'd him away. (Which was probably the best outcome for the stalker).

Do y'all have any good advice to deal with stalkers? It's a constant problem, and the state's response is more or less to just let it go until someone get's seriously injured or killed. I'm curious what anarchists and community defense groups and stuff have come up with to deal with these creeps.

  • gcc [he/him, they/them]
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    4 years ago

    In chapter 5 of Another Politics: Talking across Today's Transformative Movements they describe one organization that had success publicly calling them out:

    SLG was what SIIS developed to deal with these twin problems of police violence and gendered interpersonal violence. SLG sought to create, in the words of SIIS, "a space where violence against sistas is not tolerated, and where women turn to each other instead of the police to address the violence in their lives." Organizers used posters, T-shirts, stickers, and murals to physically create this territory, and they deepened it through workshops aimed at young women in their neighborhood. SIIS also developed what they called "Sista Circles," small groups of young women collectively supporting one another and, when necessary, intervening in circumstances of harassment or violence. For instance, Rojas-Urrutia said, "When somebody is getting stalked, the whole group would go to the [stalker’s] workplace and embarrass him in front of the boss and call attention and make some direct demands of what he needed to do. And it would work actually—more than calling the cops—and [it would] heighten the profile publicly of this question of violence in the neighborhood. . . . And we would bring in the fathers too; it wasn’t just all women but other people in the neighborhood too."