I was told that it may lead to easier or faster release, and I imagine I might be targeted to be imprisoned if I push it if I don’t bring an ID, but I feel like that’s bullshit but I don’t think I should leave it to chance
Would you bring an ID to a protest?
(Did I accidentally start a struggle session?)
Yeah I used to think we should go to these things to “be with the masses” or whatever but increasingly I’m feeling that it’s just liberal adventurism. If it doesn’t come with an organized threat of violence, boycott, or strike then it is meaningless and we’d be better of spending our time engaging with the people in our lives to build that threat because those are people we’ll actually sway and build something with rather than random discontents on the street.
I definitely agree that, especially with No Kings, it’s a bad way to “be with the masses”. Most normal people don’t really care about dictatorship, monarchy, or abuse of powers, it’s reflected in the number of non-voters. Protests about specific material interests are much more “of the masses”, but also much rarer.
Don’t form your mass line off of these protests, get these protestors to follow our mass line.
Community events, rather than protests, are a much better way to get with a wide range of normal people. Or labor organizing in the worse off industries.