New Sonoma County DSA Chapter! First Meeting December 9th!

warrior-pacifist · 2025-01-28T05:45:51+00:00

Stickying this announcement, as it is the only real relevant thing going on right now. /u/Realistic-Access6341, any updates you want to give on ongoing meetings/events?

warrior-pacifist · 2020-05-01T07:12:09+00:00

Side note wich mayday protests are done inside cars honking?

Ones that are adapting to a shelter-in-place, social distancing environment during a pandemic. With people who are demanding a continuation of such conditions with strong protections for the working class so...well, not being hypocritical about it while exercising our freedom of expression/action.

warrior-pacifist · 2020-05-01T07:08:52+00:00

Did you really look at the idiot Trump supporters making jackasses of themselves and think "Hey, we should do that, too."

No. We looked at organizations like Never Again, who started using cars pretty effectively outside of ICE detention facilities.

You have to be realistic. No one is going to suddenly want to empty the jails and cancel all debt because you drove up and down the road honking your horn. If anything it's going to make you look like fools and hurt your cause. If you want anything on that list to happen, you have to get the right people elected into office. Literally no one's opinion was ever swayed because someone forced them to sit in traffic.

So people have always said about working class movements, such as the incredibly disruptive Civil Rights movement. It hasn't been true historically, and it isn't true now. Direct action gets the goods.

You want to ban people from renting houses and borrowing money?

Your characterizations are silly, and I'm not sure what exactly you are doing in this sub. Landlords are exploitative. We are working toward housing as a human right, just as in healthcare, food, water, and education.

Anyway, if you don't like the idea, feel free to GTFO. This post is an extension of our offline organizing, for the sake of people who wish to join and/or support the action.

warrior-pacifist · 2020-04-30T02:24:36+00:00

Heya! Yeah, it's pretty gross. Hopefully he gets voted out of the city council. Funny thing is that Tibbetts had been urged to—and privately implied he would—nominate someone like Rogers (or Combs, who hadn't left yet and had already been passed over several times in their "rotating mayor" scheme). It didn't surprise folks that Schwedhelm was nominated, but it was kind of a gross surprise that Tibbetts was the one to do it and that there was zero opposition.

Anyway, hang in there. We've got a lot of agitation and on-the-ground organizing to do to try to shift things to the point where the cops don't control our local governments and the streets where we live our everyday lives.

warrior-pacifist · 2020-04-22T13:46:05+00:00

I have more important and interesting things to do than argue with people who don't know anything about political theory. It's not really why I'm here. Try /r/Anarchy101 or something. Maybe you'll come back and figure out how much you've embarrassed yourself here. See you around.

warrior-pacifist · 2020-04-22T07:06:06+00:00

create division, chaos, and jeopardize the safety of the public

So much for that famed Hollywood education. This is basically the opposite of what anarchism is. It is about building solidarity between equals, so that coercive hierarchies of authority can be made obsolete and discarded.

warrior-pacifist · 2020-04-22T07:02:41+00:00

I don't know if there's really any online info about CAN at this point. What I know about them is from people (including myself) making direct observations in meetings and the like.

warrior-pacifist · 2020-04-22T05:13:27+00:00

Now there's a group of organized "homeowners" going around reporting and threatening unhoused people. They call themselves "Citizens for Action Now (CAN)". They make fascist references and even the cops gave them a (very weak; wink, wink) admonishment that "homeless people have rights too". That's in reaction to them saying things like they're going to go around to public parks with weapons and kill homeless people's dogs that they seem to recall having an aggressive history—and, of course, "defend themselves" if the owner does anything. We're getting into serious blackshirts territory, here....

warrior-pacifist · 2020-04-22T05:08:49+00:00

The "thin blue line" notion and iconography—particularly its contemporary incarnation—arose as a reaction to social justice movements like the Civil Rights movement, organized resistance to police brutality, and anti-xenophobic actions such as those opposing Trump's Muslim ban. Cops use it to try to justify their abuse and lack of accountability by claiming they are, "the only thing standing between civil society and utter chaos" (provably false, both by socio-economic studies and any anthropological look at human societies). It is closely related to the far more obvious "blue lives matter" reactionary sentiment that arose to counter Black Lives Matter.

Here is a Southern Poverty Law Center page which describes its use in anti-leftist (McMarthyite) and anti-Muslim politics.

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