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?)
Not sure this is really a great counterexample. The 2020 protests were widespread but had 0 lasting material effect, and any ideological effect of enlightening white people about racism clearly didn’t hold either.
What do you mean? Police funding skyrocketed.
I disagree. That imaged stayed in my mind as an example we can actually do something useful.
Before that I saw the police and state as unbeatable, especially in the US. But they taught people a good lesson that day.
That’s why my post is longer than one sentence. Within the context of what I said, it’s clear I’m not providing the 2020 protests as something that brought lasting material change and especially not that it cured racism is a lot of white people. I brought it up because it’s a recent protest that comes after public demonstrations were neutered over the Iraq War. However, despite that, there were people still building networks and gaining useful skills from the neutered protests. A lot of those people were also murdered by the state afterwards.
I don’t know about your local scene but many formerly Bernie people joined leftist orgs and mutual aid groups around this time, 2020 was radicalizing for many Americans