Forwarded from Philly RUST
A lot of us think electoral politics are bad. But some of us also think that we have a perfect opportunity to hold the duopoly in check by preventing either candidate from reaching 270. What third party would you think would be best to protest the duopoly
Anonymous Poll
36%
None
28%
Green Howie Hawkins/Angela Walker
15%
PSL Gloria La Riva/Leonard Peltier
10%
Libertarian Jo Jorgensen/Spike Cohen
6%
Birthday Kanye West/Michelle Tidball
6%
Someone else
Forwarded from Seattle BLM Scanner
#ground, from a comrade minutes ago:
"Camps being cleared in Cal Anderson. Just listened to cops poking through a houseless person's belongings saying one of them should take the nice skateboard laying there and that the “wheels are actually nice.” Their lack of humanity and morals is horrific."
"Camps being cleared in Cal Anderson. Just listened to cops poking through a houseless person's belongings saying one of them should take the nice skateboard laying there and that the “wheels are actually nice.” Their lack of humanity and morals is horrific."
Forwarded from Syndiegram (FiberSinthe says Black Lives Matter)
I would not say electoral politics are out of touch. They are completely in touch. The reality is the poor and landless are simply not enfranchised anymore.
In between debt obligations, prison time, land and capital monopolies, there’s no meaningful way for working people to have a voice nationally within either party or the economy. This is by design. It’s time we “kill Bernie Sanders” and focus on UNIONIZING.
Electoral politics is only affected by the disenfranchised when we use power outside of the system to isolate and pinion the ruling class. Without outside union power, the ruling class has no incentive to “secure the working people’s vote” because working people functionally cannot vote. Only by being such a nuisance that they cannot ignore our demands have we wrested change from the ruling parties. It was a hostage negotiation, not cooperation that gave us these victories.
It’s important to note: It’s not directly out of malice, but pure math. Helping someone that can’t vote for you is charity, and elections are transactions. Therefore, for us to be upset that John Kasich gets speaking time, or Biden and Kamala becoming the Democratic nominees is a sort of idealistic interpretation of politics that Bernie’s failure lays clear. Even when the working class is mobilized for 2 successive election campaigns, they are too disenfranchised to nominate a candidate on their own. Working people require economic power to compete.
Therefore, again, I beseech you: learn to unionize. Join the IWW. Stop giving a shit about elections, it’s too late. We have to stitch the union labor movement back together ourselves, and the political system cannot be bent to our will until we accomplish this. If we build it, I guarantee to you that the election candidates will begin to bend to our will, because they can’t take our wrath without losing their jobs.
And really, aren’t you tired of playing nice?
Don’t you want to go apeshit?
In between debt obligations, prison time, land and capital monopolies, there’s no meaningful way for working people to have a voice nationally within either party or the economy. This is by design. It’s time we “kill Bernie Sanders” and focus on UNIONIZING.
Electoral politics is only affected by the disenfranchised when we use power outside of the system to isolate and pinion the ruling class. Without outside union power, the ruling class has no incentive to “secure the working people’s vote” because working people functionally cannot vote. Only by being such a nuisance that they cannot ignore our demands have we wrested change from the ruling parties. It was a hostage negotiation, not cooperation that gave us these victories.
It’s important to note: It’s not directly out of malice, but pure math. Helping someone that can’t vote for you is charity, and elections are transactions. Therefore, for us to be upset that John Kasich gets speaking time, or Biden and Kamala becoming the Democratic nominees is a sort of idealistic interpretation of politics that Bernie’s failure lays clear. Even when the working class is mobilized for 2 successive election campaigns, they are too disenfranchised to nominate a candidate on their own. Working people require economic power to compete.
Therefore, again, I beseech you: learn to unionize. Join the IWW. Stop giving a shit about elections, it’s too late. We have to stitch the union labor movement back together ourselves, and the political system cannot be bent to our will until we accomplish this. If we build it, I guarantee to you that the election candidates will begin to bend to our will, because they can’t take our wrath without losing their jobs.
And really, aren’t you tired of playing nice?
Don’t you want to go apeshit?
Forwarded from ⚡Unprecedented News Network⚡
Most effective way of "defunding" the police is not through policy. Stop paying your taxes.
Forwarded from PDX Uprising Channel
Originally for athletes, this is a list of ways you may be able to assist a comrade who is injured or experiencing body trauma.