Liberal contingents at rallies are excellent opportunities for recruitment. Large groups of angry people who are motivated enough to go outside, but have no strong ideas about what they should be doing. I'm genuinely fired up after canvassing the May Day crowd in my town. I met a lot of people who only needed to be told how to get involved in making real change.
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Thanks, that is heartening to hear, and a good reminder to take some responsibility. I'll say I'm new in town (been gone a long time), and only slowly finding "my people" here.
It's always tough attending a rally where you don't know anyone! The only thing that lets me be outgoing at events is being able to recharge my social batteries by talking with comrades I know.
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Protests are more of a ritual than a tactic these days. Protest is a tool, one of the tools in a toolbox to get what you want. They are not an end in themselves. If the protests aren't disrupting anything, if they aren't organized towards obtaining something or making somebody do something, they're not any better than a block party or an online petition.
The most you can really hope to achieve is to bring an org there to sign people up and actually have the org do something useful like mutual aid.
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I'm seeing wayyyy too many Ukranian flags and anti communist signs. Russia is apparently still the USSR.
I've accepted the Ukrainian flags at this point tbh, but it sucks seeing them outnumber Palestinian ones 100-1.
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