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I'm in the Boston area. I'm trying to figure out what I can usefully do, still - so far most of what I'm doing is being a good bourgeoisie and dumping more and more of my income in to progressive causes, but that can't be enough. I was aggressively involved in volunteering for the Hillary campaign, and I'm doing some phone banking for Foster Campbell right now, but... I dunno. I'm still looking for stable footing against the arc of history. Veyrall posted:Those fucks are taking december off. Well, okay then. Time to find out when the next town hall is meeting. Those pathetic wretches. Have they no anger left? No hate? No love? Pollyanna posted:Boston Dems seem to be kinda closed off, and I'm more interested in the DSA anyway. So, gently caress 'em. I'm cracking in to the Somerville scene. There's a Dem committee meeting this Wednesday I'm attending. RiotGearEpsilon fucked around with this message at 19:55 on Nov 29, 2016 |
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Fart of Darkness posted:It's really nice to see so much energy and hope so soon after the elections. I'd been in a funk for a little while and couldn't shake it. But because of this thread, I've emailed my local democratic party in an effort to volunteer and ordered some books from the OP. Thanks, guys! Stay strong. Promote the cause, keep the faith, grow the host. We're 2.5 million stronger than them, no matter how much Trump wants to believe we don't exist, and we can make those numbers and that passion count!
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I joined the DSA. It turns out that doesn't actually stop you from getting involved in Democratic politics, like, at all.
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I am continually reminding my DSA comrades that the Democrats are effectively baked in to the legal structure of U.S. campaign finance law, and I don't get a lot of push-back on it. As much as some of them would love to stay pure, the consensus seems to be that the Democrats are the necessary terrain of the struggle - not allies, but the ground of the struggle itself. I think that's a fair description. Remember that we've also endorsed Ellison, and Bernie Sanders. We aren't here to jerk off about how socialist we are, we've got poo poo to get done.
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Jonas Albrecht posted:Is there something more I can do for the DSA? I would love to get a local chapter here in Peoria, but I'm unable to convince anyone qualified to get involved. On a different note, I sit on a mountain of idle time at work on my 3rd shift job, and I really feel like I could be using it for data entry or whatever. Join the Slack channel, and we can probably find something useful for you to do.
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n4 posted:Does anyone know of any activist projects I could get involved with where I could use my job skills? I'm a software developer. Also interested in any other ideas for how I could use code for lefty causes. Yes. Join the DSA slack chat. There are several active projects going on to create internally-facing 'sharing economy' type tools to help us more effectively mobilize existing assets. Note that the slack is only open to actual DSA members. If you're not interested in that, consider reaching out to the Tech Solidarity movement that the pinboard guy is doing. RiotGearEpsilon fucked around with this message at 23:51 on Dec 29, 2016 |
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Baby Babbeh posted:How long does it usually take to get an invite back from DSA slack? An obnoxiously long-rear end time; a couple weeks, maybe more. You gotta get verified by the national and those guys are victims of their own success right now. Never in their wildest dreams did they imagine this sort of viral surge of membership. If you need to get in the fight right-the-gently caress-now I can see if there's anything I can do to accelerate it. Here's a project LarryWebsite is workin' on. https://twitter.com/LarryWebsite/status/814641848996294656 RiotGearEpsilon fucked around with this message at 02:29 on Dec 30, 2016 |
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Veyrall posted:I keep seeing this guide making the rounds on Facebook. Does anyone else think it could be useful? Yeah, it's been a big thing for a while. Link up with their twitter account, link up with their facebook account, and look for a local branch; if you don't find one, try making one.
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Taran posted:I recently went to the DSA meeting in Boston, it was really good. 80-ish people, most of us being newbie Berniecrats as far as I can tell -- I'm guessing 20 or so of the people there were old regulars? There was a good amount of chat about Fight for 15 as well as the usual Stand For Healthcare / Resist Trump stuff this weekend and next. Since the meeting was so full of newbies we didn't delve too much into specifics, though I believe there's an education working group meeting that I can hit up soon so I can find out more. eyyyyy I was the guy trying to recruit for the wobblies
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Jack Gladney posted:Just wanted to say that this thread pushed me to join DSA. If you shiver with outrage at every injustice, then you are a comrade of mine. Welcome!
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Rated PG-34 posted:Is it still a good idea in states with stand your ground laws Yes. Gun violence of that sort is a negligible threat, blown all out of proportion for propaganda value. Don't give in to fear of it.
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Whoever clocked Richard Spencer today is a goddamn hero. On a more local note, the protests in Boston went pretty well today. Nothing super dramatic happened, and we probably annoyed the hell out of a lot of people by being in the way, but we also inspired a lot of people as well, I think. Tomorrow ought to be even more exciting.
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TomViolence posted:https://www.crowdrise.com/medical-fundraiser-for-iww-and-gdc-member-shot-in-seattle I donated and spread the word. Here's hoping the guy who pulled the trigger was a skittish idiot rather than a fash.
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OhFunny posted:I had some friends attend the Boston march. Some headed down from NH. I went to the Concord march. I got the impression we didn't use it as an aggressive recruiting ground, which in retrospect may have been a mistake. We got some good chanting going at the march, I did some shilling of the RaiseUp Mass legislation, and firmly explained to some young anarchists the importance of loving registering to loving vote you idiot poo poo kids - but, yeah, maybe it was a wasted opportunity. I did recruit a nice old lady at the Burger King, though. Everyone who signed up for the march through EventBrite is now being mobilized by the WFP, MoveOn, and some other org to harry their reps on a weekly basis. So there will be some motivating.
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OhFunny posted:So the real meeting is Feb 1st at 7pm. Where they'll elect new officers. I'm gonna go to that. Good luck, OhFunny.
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Reform, hell - burrow in to them and eat them from within like some sort of hosed up jungle parasite.
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The DSA is planning to table at the Juggalo March. I confess I kind of want to go.
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I don't know what protests you guys are going to that that sort of thing is necessary, but yikes.
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Dr. Fishopolis posted:I think it's a totally reasonable and cheap precaution. When you go to a protest, you should assume you're going to get arrested, and that your phone will be taken and searched. Of course, chances are very low of that happening right now, but if it costs $20 to avoid a potentially huge problem, I'll spend the $20. oh, no argument, but destroying the burner phone? I guess I was conceptualizing of the burner phone as 'the spare' rather than 'the burner'
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:apparently my (republican) senator turned off all of his office's phone lines, which is why i couldn't get through earlier have you considered driving to his office
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:So you're saying we should salt every indivisible group with socialist agitators? Well, I mean, you can recruit there. Don't disrupt their core competency!
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Jack Gladney posted:Hilariously there is a LARP event with over a thousand people attending right next to the event. I'm in Boston and the nazis are marching downtown next to Boston Common, where the LARPers are having a medieval nerf war. Wait, what? I'm in Boston and this is the first I've heard of it. What's all this then?
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Truly our finest hour 
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Ice Phisherman posted:So I'll be knocking on doors in the evenings and this coming weekend. Maybe make some magic happen. I'm walking anyway to lose weight. Might as well lose weight while talking to voters. Good luck, dude. This is correct action.
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Pembroke Fuse posted:The USSR was pretty wretched for a lot of people even during the non-Stalin phases (like Brezhnev's 18 years of stagnation), my family included. So no, as a DemSoc, I don't describe a state with one-party rule as my ideal system. Any ideal system would have to find ways to get buy-in from the general population that wasn't rooted in coercion and also find ways to resolve significant political differences, also without coercion. There's always going to be some coercion - fundamentally, a state is a form of collective coercive violence, even when that's a good thing - but we can try to keep it down to a tolerable level of brutality by focusing that violence on reinforcing things that actually have broad consensus and produce real social returns.
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Mystic Mongol posted:I don't actually know this guy's thoughts on the issue. start by looking up his thoughts on the issue, dingus, for all you know he's cosponsored a net neutrality bill
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Mystic Mongol posted:The internet has profoundly changed the way Americans learn about the world and communicate with one another. The last few decades have been a renaissance of new ideas as the ubiquity of the World Wide Web allow us incredible access, but a few large Internet Service Providers want to restrict, slow, or prevent access to sections of the internet for profit, to control the national dialogue, or both. The chair of the Federal Communications Commission has abandoned his responsibility in this matter, so I want to know what you plan to do to ensure the Internet remains a tool of citizens, not corporations. Too long. One sentence, or two short sentences. edit: Also, practice saying it until you can spit it out like a bullet without being at all difficult to understand.
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Much better. I read that one by accident, which is how I know it's short enough.
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