Thread by @pridewasariot_

🧵 Stop doing things the way we’ve been doing it. Stop using the same tools and repeating the same tactics. Put simply, stop fighting with ineffective weapons.

Thread time Thursday: 🧵/

Okay, we’re here’s an equation.

1. Something really bad happens.
2. We grab whoever’s closest, run to the first biggest event, we take to the street.
3. We commit to an action item that causes pressure for change and advocate for our cause.
4. We get small change & go home.

This is a method called “Building Critical Mass” when political issues spill over into the secondary-impacted population zones, building “popular support.” We often get tied that this method, this “urgency” “mobilize” and “burnout” organizing is the winning tool.

I mean, it’s not bad and it’s not wrong, it’s just not right and it’s not working.

It’s nearly 2023 and we’re fighting for the same rights and issues as the 90’s and the 60’s.

So what are some effective tools and tactics that HAVE been working and making ground?

Simultaneous to the last major US revolt, while many of the secondary-impact populations were mobilizing in the streets, there were small-team action groups organizing direct work all over.

One effective form for this was a dubious, faceless, autonomous entity which only carried one spirit: Janes Revenge.

So while liberals ushered protestors to the voting box, small-team action groups targeted & neutralized terror stations across the so-called US.

It’s important to note that Janes Revenge was considered a string of terror attacks across the US, was censored from media and is referenced in national security threat reviews.

What caused a little spray paint & some road flares to be held in such contempt?

We’ll first, let’s talk about terror. Because apparently entrapping, shaming & threatening to dox pregnant people to coerce them into carrying a child to term is legally *not* terrorism when you have a brick and mortar business you pay taxes on.

These were the places getting attacked. Legalized offices of suffering meant to look & imitate child care services. Some would connect you with actual child resources, but strings came with end goals - to steal your consent, to follow you, to hurt you. Fuck these places.

So what’s the threat with a few office fires and some paint? Some of these stories showed that there was a failure to even use fire in many cases.

Well, you know what they say. Practice makes perfect. And across the nation, people were practicing against a unified goal.

To be clear, we are not saying “go burn down your nearest fake pregnancy center.” Those places should absolutely burn, but you should be focused on small team action groups and practicing against goals you can reasonably achieve.

When we say things like “All hands on deck 🚨 🚨” your immediate thought should not be “go break out the picket sign and show up to the Capital.”

Explicitly do not go do that. What we mean is “We need all teams ready to start chipping away at small political targets.”

Undergrads supporting the #UAWonStrike have built barricades at multiple universities. Just yesterday, UCD Chancellor May had his house targeted. This are small but increasing escalations working autonomously to a unified goal w/ a diversity of tactics. Do THIS not THAT.

https://twitter.com/ucdavis_coc/status/1598095269190832128

You don’t need to be out doing another fucking march, ok? Let the Popular Mass do that. If you have any sense of responsibility, you need to be building your confidence up and practicing against achievable goals within your reach to push the line against the fascist threat.

I need you to be building your confidence up. I need you to be willing to take calculated risks that you’ve ensured are the safest way to do so. I need you to be ready to be rowdy, to be willing to fight! I need you to be prepared for what success looks like.

We are not going to win by rehearsing crowd helplessness outside a line of cops attacking us & never defending ourselves. This trains us to accept it.

Quit putting yourselves into engagements that train pacification & steal your power.

You need to be picking your engagements on the fights you can win. You need to find out what you are capable of. You need to win, then be able to do it again tomorrow. You need to build and train your power. No more helplessness.

If you’ve ever been to a march and never saw significant change as a result of it, I want you to change your tactics and think illegally.

Spray a wall. Egg someone’s house. Pull the fire alarm. You need to be thinking of small acts of confidence with high yield potential.

I need you to be willing to participate in a culture of fighting back using incredibly brave and small ways. I need you practicing with others over progressively more difficult targets. Paint over a Pro-Life billboard. Think bigger & build confidence.

Marching and voting are no longer working. #Strikemeansstrike and I need you to be brave and practice striking on your own & fighting within a unified framework. You don’t need permission, but if you do, now you have it. We need you in this fight.