No Kings 2 is being organized by a big tent of grassroots and advocacy organizations. One of the most prominent players is Indivisible, the activist group that sprang to life in the early days of the first Trump administration, and which now counts 2,500 distributed, local chapters nationwide.
Rolling Stone spoke to Indivisible co-founder Ezra Levin last week, in advance of No Kings 2 unveiling today. The protest is planned for Oct. 18 — in the aftermath of an unpredictable showdown over government funding that could lead to a partial government shutdown by the end of the month.
I expect No Kings 2 to be the largest protest of the year. We had 5 to 6 million people across 2,169 communities turn out for No Kings 1. It was wildly successful. People who might have been on the sidelines for No Kings 1 probably had some FOMO. And the good news is: We’re doing it again. We’re going to pull out even more people.
Yawn. Nothing will come of peaceful protests.
People protests are the start. People who protest peacefully will be more inclined to occupy and take the space later.
You can’t ask family and elderies to riot. There’s a dialectic between violent struggle and peaceful protest. They protect / empowers each other.
Then do something yourself instead of telling others they should do what you don’t have the balls to do.
Otherwise you look like a foreign actor trying to incite violence.
If you actually believed what you say I’d be reading about your actions not your feelings.
Peaceful protests are the way we got nearly all the liberties they are taking from us. Yawning is the way we’re losing them.
Examples?
MLK March on Washington - civil rights legislation
Montgomery bus boycott - desegregation
Women’s suffrage - equal rights to political participation
Delano Grape boycott - ending many exploits and abused of farm workers and new unions
Singing Revolution - helped lead some Baltic states out of USSR
Salt March - helped lead to Indian independence from Britain
Let’s go through this one by one.
What about the rest of the civil rights movement? The struggle for civil rights involved dozens if not hundreds of groups both peaceful and violent, and all of them contributed to the eventual success/“success” of the movement. Also I should note that desegregation was gained via a court case, not (just) protest. For one prominent instance of violence in the civil rights movement, see: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_assassination_riots
Women’s suffrage in America was for the most part peaceful, but it was also not something the elites had any reason to oppose. This is an apples to oranges comparison.
Ths Delano Grape Strike (not boycott) is not relevant due to the government not being involved one way or the other. Also note that the reason the strike remained mostly peaceful was because the (very much violent) labor rights movement had given them the right to not be shot by private militias. The violence necessary for the strike to succeed had simply been outsourced to the past.
Weren’t we talking about American liberties here?
See above, but also the Indian independence movement was kickstarted by a violent uprising.
There’s a lot that cannot be quantified directly from bringing visibility to an issue. I’m not arguing against other tactics just that peaceful protests are not useless. The Trump administration wants a violent reaction to jumpstart everything on their list through martial law.
Sure, but then what? Visibility has already been brought, so tactics whose selling point is bringing visibility have clearly outlived their usefulness.
As opposed to what, exactly? To be clear the stuff Gandhi or MLK were doing would be enough of an excuse for Trump to impose martial law if done today. Effective resistance will beget violent repression by virtue of its effectiveness.
Most people dont realize almost every peaceful protest that got us where we are today was also backed up by lots of violence.
Yes. And it’s the way we lost them again. The same tired tactics don’t work. We cannot just do the same thing we always did and expect it to work out fine. Look around Not a single protest has done anything to change anything or even suggest the changing of anything in the last six months. And if it , the Supreme Court shot it down.
Every single thing we get back we are going to lose again the moment the Supreme Court gets Hold of it
You’re not wrong but that’s all that most people can(will) do. 10 million is an enormous outpouring.
The game has changed since the large media outlets are on the take hiding our efforts. That doesn’t mean we can’t change tactics too but it’s not like the peaceful protesters of the past didn’t have the cards stacked against them too. If you have the courage and wits to lead in more effective ways of fighting I support you.
Do not split and no cracks. You don’t have to agree with how they are fighting the system, but keep your thoughts private and instead, explain how your system is awesome.
https://sh.itjust.works/post/42969194
I’m sorry, but I cannot take political advice based on tactics that have failed in China.
Those tactics worked in tunisia to fight ben ali. My wife was there and they weren’t shooting blanks.
So, if the LA protestors has gotten violent with the national guard, what do you think would have happened?
I don’t think they should get violent with the police (or national guard), so I won’t even entertain that concept.
So what are your thoughts on how all of this should be handled? You’re responding to me saying to OP to incite violence instead of peaceful protest. I’m getting sick of trolls, and it seems like you’re trolling.
I’m not trying to troll you at all, but I believe that you are trying to get me to break the rules so that you can ban me. You aren’t interested in what I think, you are interested in a justified ban.
Dude, you don’t have to do anything else to ban you. I’m just curious if you had anything to say before I do it.
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