I am in Spain right now on a trip planned months ago. Since I’ve been here there’s been a sit in occupation in one of the main squares, multiple marches for housing costs, a pro Palestine march, and a pro Ukraine march. At the same time, there’ve been marches on multiple other Spanish cities including one that breached a housing convention, there’s protests in France over education (where a Nazi got severally beaten :)), and protests in Germany over militarization.
In the US? Well we have one numbered and scheduled in 2 weeks, just like a movie release!
The People have so much power, but they don’t exercise it. Case in point: ABC/Disney suspended Jimmy Kimmel. Calls for a Disney boycott began spreading rapidly. People specifically urged Disney+ and Hulu subscribers to cancel their subscriptions, with the hashtag #BoycottDisney appearing on social media. The campaign became more prominent, with celebrities and other public figures joining calls to cancel Disney+, Hulu and ESPN. They also said they were canceling Disney trips. Result? Disney announced that Kimmel would return. There it is, right there. That is one example of the power of the people. You don’t like something? Fucking band together!! BOYCOTT, RESIST
No Kings was never intended to have any follow-through. I check the website periodically and it’s almost never updated until the next big rally is coming up. No resources, no sustained effort to strengthen and entrench the resistance, just “Find a rally near you!” every 4-6 months.
I think its only purpose has been to keep liberals minimally activated to vote in the midterms, and that’s it. If it were anything more than that, we’d be seeing more French-style direct action by now.
Consider it training, experience grinding. Read about other modern revolutions. Here in Ukraine we gave such a buttkick to our president decade ago that he landed in Russian Rostov.
Better than nothing. Can combine with picnic to add some fun to process.
@username_1
That’s just a No Kings rally, and we’ve seen how effective those are.
I am in Spain right now on a trip planned months ago. Since I’ve been here there’s been a sit in occupation in one of the main squares, multiple marches for housing costs, a pro Palestine march, and a pro Ukraine march. At the same time, there’ve been marches on multiple other Spanish cities including one that breached a housing convention, there’s protests in France over education (where a Nazi got severally beaten :)), and protests in Germany over militarization.
In the US? Well we have one numbered and scheduled in 2 weeks, just like a movie release!
To be effective they would have had to happen more often, and for longer periods of time and with a helluva lot more people.
At best, the “no kings” rallies were a somewhat good first step. But they didn’t follow through with anything after that.
The People have so much power, but they don’t exercise it. Case in point: ABC/Disney suspended Jimmy Kimmel. Calls for a Disney boycott began spreading rapidly. People specifically urged Disney+ and Hulu subscribers to cancel their subscriptions, with the hashtag #BoycottDisney appearing on social media. The campaign became more prominent, with celebrities and other public figures joining calls to cancel Disney+, Hulu and ESPN. They also said they were canceling Disney trips. Result? Disney announced that Kimmel would return. There it is, right there. That is one example of the power of the people. You don’t like something? Fucking band together!! BOYCOTT, RESIST
@kent_eh
No Kings was never intended to have any follow-through. I check the website periodically and it’s almost never updated until the next big rally is coming up. No resources, no sustained effort to strengthen and entrench the resistance, just “Find a rally near you!” every 4-6 months.
I think its only purpose has been to keep liberals minimally activated to vote in the midterms, and that’s it. If it were anything more than that, we’d be seeing more French-style direct action by now.
Consider it training, experience grinding. Read about other modern revolutions. Here in Ukraine we gave such a buttkick to our president decade ago that he landed in Russian Rostov.