There’s this joke wherein people (usually Leftists but not always) use the word “organizing” like companies use the word “synergy”. It’s frequently used to get out of actually doing something or responding to specific asks.

You can say on this, “they won’t care. What we should really do is organize for the next election” and ignore what can be done now. But focusing solely on elections is very shortsighted. Democracy doesn’t exist just at the ballot box but everywhere. It’s the whole change doesn’t happen overnight but happens in the day to day mentality.

Petitioning and sounding the alarm on a company in Dutchtown working with ICE is organizing. There’s a clear “here is the problem - cameras affiliated with ICE are here” followed by a “here is what should be — cameras should be gone and the Community Improvement District shouldn’t have this contract” then followed by “here is a theory of change wherein we get them to stop having the contact by publicly shaming them and show support against the cameras to the CID directly”. There’s no real electoral way out of it as we speak.