My fellow Americans I have bad news: boycotts need to be targeted to work. And the target needs to know your demands so that they can be met once sufficient pain is delivered. No one will notice a diffuse boycott of The Economy. There remains no substitute for joining a group and making plans.
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Also, turn up everywhere, always, all at once. If you can fuck up their money for a single second, it's up.
Also again. If I can deprive these people of a damn dime. I'm doing it.
Many small steps create a new path. Not just the perfect and giant leaps.
Seems that so many of us are in our full fight or flight nervous system modes (and wow are we ever), that we're expecting a perfect cohesive reaction to the arrival of authoritarianism.
They don't yet know or trust others, though our goals are common.
Sniping at individuals seeking to contribute any part of meaningful thought, will always be counterproductive.
Communication is difficult when we're afraid, and the realities in the act of building aren't a hand holding kumbyah exercise.
It's really hard! And worth it.
It’s BLM all over again a loud passionate base that is unfocused and undirected in its wants will simply be ineffective and disappear with no real change.
The internet is not the sum nexus of human civilization. Online activism does not translate to the real world unfocused.
We just want to flex our muscles. We want to gauge our power in inflicting pain. Assess our strength in numbers and analyze where we failed to reach greater numbers.
And with each boycott, we will improve. Then we do general strikes.
The people like you who are poo-pooing the idea aren't actually helpful. I don't think anyone thinks this is anything other than a start.
I do see too that people are so very hair trigger Fight or Flight they're forgetting that we need to work, together.
This is a good one because it's pretty easy to *not* buy anything for one day, but not so easy you don't even have to think about it.
https://cnn.it/3CXUcDW
Latinx people have been boycotting Coca Cola since one of their warehouses called a meeting for undocumented workers, fired them, and called ICE to arrest them as they left.
No one put forth a list of demands. They know what they did.
Ask Coke how it's working.
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This is very much a "while he stands tough, notice that this man did not have his hands up" moment.
Just your friendly neighborhood fence sitter telling us that no one will our cute little boycott.
It actually gives me hope so many people are participating in this 24 hour boycott.
Meanwhile, show me ONE white male led social movement in this country that has expanded rights for the historically dispossessed.
Please have several seats while you ponder that answer.
Thanks!
He could have said nothing and followed up tomorrow with “great effort! Here are my thoughts on how to keep it going!”
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Apparently poo-pooing was the preferred choice.
Anyway, we’re not listening to Dan, lol.