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At mine the lead organizer spoke about their commitment to non-violence and in the very next breath thanked the local cops.
I was one of about 5 speakers at our local one. About 5,000 attendees. I called police hogs and told the audience to read Mao. The emcee followed up my speech with, paraphrasing, "As a schoolteacher, the emphasis on political education really appeals to me". The leader of our local indivisible org sent me a message later thanking me for the speech and calling me a "true leader". Some of the libs are alright.
Yeah! I feel like some people are too quick to count out the libs. Where there are willing ears it is every Communist's job to teach. I'm not saying I think I made any real difference but just getting the ideas out there and leaving people with a positive interaction with Socialism certainly can't hurt. Just be friendly, patient, and explain, explain, explain. Practice your arguments and understand where the friction points are with your interlocutors to help better advance your ideas. Your goal should always be to convince them that they are already a Communist at heart, and that your only goal is to help them express their ideas better in the future.
I'm in a less-active corner of a major metro area and went to the event closest to where I live instead of one where major socialist contingents were planning to be - partially to get the lay of the land in my new neighborhood, partially to avoid transportation costs. It looks like what I really need to do is go to the bigger events and form / join a working group that focuses on my city. Most people here that I've talked to are anti-police but I guess they all went to a different protest yesterday. I should have been at yours!
Yeah - a lot of NK protests are put on by church groups and County Dem groups and end up reflecting more conservative ideas. But even then, I've spoken to some of those people and while many do just kind of suck, at others the organizers actually do have pretty alright politics but just have the "I don't want to alienate my less radical anti-Trump neighbors" brainworms. I think the key, again, is calmly and in a friendly, helpful tone explaining to them that their fence-sitting is alienating people who they agree with even more.
I don't want this to come off as tone policing, though. Sometimes people are shitheads and need to be mocked and flamed. A few minutes after my speech I was petitioning for a local anti-Zionist independent candidate and I ran into some old Karen-ass removed who didn't want to sign because she supported the Zionist Dem he was running against. She just rubbed me the wrong way so I loudly told my fellow petitioner "She doesn't want to sign, she thinks bombing Palestinian children is good" and walked away as she was yelling at me lmao. But I also recognize that was not an effective use of my political speech but something I did for me, as a little treat.
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I was already nauseated by the sea of Amerikkkan flags so that was more than enough for me. At least there was a [small local org] table to exchange contact information with.
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