There was an action in my town today where a group took over a vacant building near a houseless camp. The pigs drove them out after a couple of hours before they group were able to set up a warming area and pantry. Amazingly good intentions but as someone who was just a bystander I learnt so much from their obvious mistake. Number one... gotta have a solid fucking comms plan (both internal and external). It sucks, but if you want to mobilize support for direct action, you need to treat it like a fucking product, build a narrative and sell it to people. Even the material outcome is the same (kicked out the building) the comms plan should spin it into a W and build off of it so next time it works.
I know no one really cares about this, but I just need to rant. Armchair organizing...
There was an action in my town today where a group took over a vacant building near a houseless camp. The pigs drove them out after a couple of hours before they group were able to set up a warming area and pantry. Amazingly good intentions but as someone who was just a bystander I learnt so much from their obvious mistake. Number one... gotta have a solid fucking comms plan (both internal and external). It sucks, but if you want to mobilize support for direct action, you need to treat it like a fucking product, build a narrative and sell it to people. Even the material outcome is the same (kicked out the building) the comms plan should spin it into a W and build off of it so next time it works.
I know no one really cares about this, but I just need to rant. Armchair organizing...