I live in the boonies about an hour south of Chicago and am still, thankfully, working full time. So driving up and down every single day isn't feasible for me given traffic and roadblocks.
What can I do inside my community to help our cause? It feels like I'm just powerless, watching Twitter and the news in horror, and I hate it. I've always prided myself on the opinion that if I were alive in the 60s, I'd have been out there on the front lines. And here I am, doing dick, tied down by my job that I need to survive. I feel like a fraud and need to change that.
I'm on a mission to brainwash y'all into volunteering with Feeding America, hahaha.
I just put a post up on my neighborhood's FB page offering food for free to the food insecure. Thanks for the idea.
First things first, important to do some honest self assessment and figure out what level of involvement you can sustain. Beau of the Fifth Column has a video where he touches on the different groups that emerge in an insurgency, from those actively trading fire, to those who offer clandestine support, to those helping to influence attitudes towards the movement. Your material conditions will STRONGLY affect your role. Important to understand the value your role provides and not lose hope. Right wingers can engage in and gain ground from stochastic terror because the people and mechanisms are in place for them to exploit the phenomenon. Less than 10% of the military sends rounds down range. Support isn't glamorous, but without it there is no success.
I'm going to check this out. I just subscribed to his YouTube. Do you remember at all what the video was titled?
I forget which one exactly, but I'm pretty confident it's one of the eight in his Manuals and Related playlist
MASS CONFESSION, A CULTURAL REVOLUTIONARY STRATEGY
Are you an empathic person? Can you talk to your lib and chud neighbours in delicate terms and explore their feelings?
Go knock on doors, and ask people how they felt about the pandemic. Share the fear you felt. Tell them you don’t trust the media or the internet anymore and wanted to talk to real people and learn what they think. This will build compassion and solidarity within the community and reduce the amount of violence dramatically. This will improve your social skills and your neighbours lives and ultimately save them from the nightmarish system they live in.
A lot of you have tremendous weapons that you have not picked up and that are now going completely unused, often because you got psyop’d into letting the guns control your thinking about guerrilla weaponry.
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Are you white? Are you a man? (and so on) ... Are you not physically afraid of potentially meeting your suburban/rural neighbours (fascists, I can tell by the lawncare) who have been plunged into a hateful psyop? You have revolutionary identity weapons others do not.
You must go and talk to your neighbours about their experiences. You must be willing to go as a missionary, armed with only the psy-weapons theory and praxis have taught you, and be completely unafraid of them. This will be a radical anthropological study, not overtly political or pulling on the class contradiction and always peaceful in nature.
I haven't been out on the front lines either, but what I have been doing is trying to provide y'all with mutual aid, volunteer, and donation resources to help improve the immediate material conditions of those within your communities. Food insecurity and homelessness are majorly on the rise, spread donation links for your local food pantries and homeless shelters on Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, wherever. If you look in the sidebar, I created a state-by-state resource containing links to food banks, food pantries, homeless shelters, and soup kitchens. I'd start by looking in there. Protesting is dank, but there is other praxis to be done too. :)
I'm also sidelined by my own circumstances and it sucks. BUT! In the mean time I find solace in studying theory/praxis and working on practical skills that can help me and the people around me survive in the tough times that may be approaching. Knowing first aid is always going to be potentially useful. Growing/preserving food. Knowing how to fix stuff. Consider all of your resources and how they might be strategically employed.
Donate to bail funds, try to pull people in your daily life to the left, find/start some group to help people in need and connect that work to the broader failings of capitalism.
