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- nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
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- nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
Hey so I googled the steps. I guess we gotta form committees, mobilize, raise public awareness, I got the syllabus. So like how do we get this thing going? Are there organisations already working on this or do we gotta grassroots this?
You should probably look up what other people do and connect with them. Like worker’s unions, charities and non-profits, people with influence, the political opposition. The big part of “organizing” is connecting with people. So call them, go to their meetings, find individual supporters for your cause, or whole groups who are willing to collaborate with you on topics or the whole thing. Once you have a few hundreds or thousands of supporters, do meetings. Let people talk and discuss their ideas. Form a plan of action and who does what. And once you have a proper organization in place, people to do the various jobs, interconnections which allow you reach lots of people, you can start with the organization of the general strike and the simultaneous protests spread out through the country. But at that point you should have the acceptance of every major union and their promise to back you with their members, plus lots of other people who are ready and waiting for you to give them the go.
If you’re young and more inclined towards internet activism, have a look a Fridays for Future and events like this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Strike
Other than that you can always look at the French people. They do a lot of protesting and general strikes. I’m just not sure if that translates to countries like the USA.
The French have a real culture of protesting and striking. You can’t use it if you don’t have it, so you need to learn it all from scratch.
To be fair, the US doesn’t really have a culture in anything useful. regarding the topic at hand. So everything needs to be learned from scratch anyways. Take for example the Fridays for Future. I mean make of this what you will. But even a 15 year old Greta Thunberg and their schoolkid-followers can have an impact on the world. But I can’t imagine anything like that becoming reality in the US. Over there, even the adults struggle with very basic things like protecting their schoolkids from getting shot at. So I think every positive societal change will take an immense effort and a big change in everything. Maybe even a revolution. Idk, but I’ve kind of become disheartened as you can probably tell. It’s been a while since some big change happened in the US. But you gotta start somewhere… And maybe it’s still somewhere within the country or the people to demand change.