I encourage leftists to pay attention to the #TransRightsReadathon campaign, even if you’re not a book person. Decentralized organizing, which empowers people to do something that matches their skills & interests in service of a public good, is catching like wildfire 1/
People everywhere are actually pretty desperate to DO something, anything, that makes the world a better place. When we create a way that they can, whilst tapping into what they’re already good at & interested in? That’s clearly powerful. 2/
And I know some leftists will sneer because we’re just reading books & making tiktoks, not marching in the streets, but hey we’re also raising $10,000s if not $100,000s in mutual aid & legal defense funds for trans folk. That’s TANGIBLE AF mutual aid, friends.
So how can you kick off decentralized organizing in YOUR community? Can fiber people do a knit-a-thon for bail funds? Can sports people host push-ups for housing funds? Can cooks do cooking competitions to feed their communities? Make it empowering. Make it fun & irresistible.
And who knows? People dip their toes into a little anarchist organizing, have a good experience, doing something which is already their strength and their hobby? Who knows what that turns into…
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