Joined my local SRA chapter. They're a good lot and we've done a bit of mutual aid for the homeless, but COVID has made meeting up or doing range days a nightmare and national is an absolute shitshow, to the point where one of the LA chapters up and left the org entirely recently. I imagine even if the national level org implodes we'd just reform our chapter under a different banner/name though, so 8/10 would tentatively do direct action again.
Some drama involving the national level org/leaders, a general lack of any buy-in towards local chapters (national controls the finances, limited as they are, and have been absolute dogshit at directing funds to chapters), being flippant towards the LA chapter when they reached out with concerns, etc.
Joined my local SRA chapter. They're a good lot and we've done a bit of mutual aid for the homeless, but COVID has made meeting up or doing range days a nightmare and national is an absolute shitshow, to the point where one of the LA chapters up and left the org entirely recently. I imagine even if the national level org implodes we'd just reform our chapter under a different banner/name though, so 8/10 would tentatively do direct action again.
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Some drama involving the national level org/leaders, a general lack of any buy-in towards local chapters (national controls the finances, limited as they are, and have been absolute dogshit at directing funds to chapters), being flippant towards the LA chapter when they reached out with concerns, etc.
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This has to be feds, right? There's a 10,000% chance they're wrecking an explicitly-armed, explicitly-socialist organization.