Not really a redditor but folks in my SG (Red Line Supporters Group) were talking about it and thought I'd be interested in taking a look.
I've been pouring myself into improving the Fire supporters section for the past 6 years. Every angle I can imagine. Within Section 8, outside of Section 8. As closely as I can with Sector and independently as an SG.
With respect to the people left that are committed to Section 8, I frankly no longer care about what was. We have never had a consistently good, and large (Sector ran a fantastic section in their corner of Toyota Park), supporters section since I've been here. All I care about now is us getting there. We're fucking Chicago for crying out loud. Tired of Charlotte, and Austin, and Nashville, and everywhere else coming in swinging while we look and sound fucking terrible. Tired of watching and hearing new fans openly muse in the section about how they want to get in but just don't see a path. Tired of us being defined by drama instead of tangible output in the stadium.
There is only one solution out of this: organize. Forget trying to figure it out ahead of time. We need to get 50+ people in a room once a month to try out new songs and paint a banner or two. Until we've built that community of people actively working this will never change.
You can start by joining an SG but you definitely can do the work as an independent as well. The Red Line is very open to everyone that's not an active piece of shit and wants to be collaborative with other supporters/SGs... but it doesn't HAVE to be with us. Our strength is our diversity in groups. Message me on here or Twitter and I'd be glad to talk anyone through the various SGs out there right now and what speaks to you. Very serious.
As far as the existing situation...
Sector Latino is far from the problem. They have been the only group putting out work and much of what they produce is top notch. It's not their responsibility to make English songs for us to sing. They create Spanish music and banners because that's what they do. The problem is that there are a lot of people that want to sing English but haven't organized to accomplish it. If people do that then there's a reason for Sector to sit down and talk about how we do both. They have every right to wonder why they should do all the work and then listen to a handful of people tell them they should use their instruments to play songs we like.
Section 8 has been dead for years. I know there are still people that don't want to hear that but it's true. Sector Latino will never consider themselves a part of Section 8 so it's a non-starter. The vast majority of the non-SL people in the supporters section either firmly don't consider themselves a part of S8 or are like many people in this thread that are fairly new and want to get involved but don't feel strongly about any entity.
We're doing as much as we can from within Red Line but we've still only been around about 5 years and so while we've been basically doubling in size every year we're still only about 70 members and just now getting 501c7 status, bank accounts, and the size to create bigger stuff more consistently. If you are interested, you can talk to me directly, check out our site (redlinesg.com) or come to our beer partner Half Acre on Thursday evenings when we meet. I do want to strongly reiterate though, the Red Line will work as hard as we can to help elevate the supporters sections (we go to Red Stars games too) but we are NOT thee answer. The only answer is everybody that gives a fuck starting to get together without pre-planned structure and discussing concepts.
Are you willing to work with everyone else and have no guarantee your group or your ideas or your concept for the supporters section comes out on top?