That elderly couple who volunteers at the soup kitchen after church on Sundays and attends every town hall meeting has done more community direct action than 99% of internet leftists 🤷🏽♀️
#lol this post is stupid spup kitchens were created by the gov after they literally destroyed black radical organizers lives#and since when does going to a town hall meeting and working within the system help anybody in any significant way
100% agree homeless people should just starve and dumpster dive till le epic revolution happens!
and for sure local politics is so stupid it only handles dumb things like your schoolboard, judges, infrastructure, and rent laws! now tweets? Thats where the real work happens!
Local activism stopped garbage collection from being privatized in my hometown and local activism is what defunds the police and keeps libraries and community gardens open and gets done most of the things people waiting around for a revolution claim they want. The weird former hippie suburban wine moms donating bags of quinoa chips and money to the food pantry I go to sometimes have done more for me materially then any defeatist political rant on tumblr ever has.
🎶Act up in your hometown! That’s what matters!🎵
going to school board meetings, even if it was just to sit there and glare furiously at the hag who hates trans kids, is what stopped our school board from repealing the policies which protected trans kids.
going to township meetings and asking question after question about the plan to tear down a farmhouse and put up a warehouse, and doing it month after month after month, is what stops the warehouse from being built because the builders get exasperated.
showing up counts. doing the work counts. working within the system counts. do other things count? sure! but do this stuff too.
