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Report back from the Iran protest (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 week ago by allthetimesivedied2@hexbear.net to c/chat@hexbear.net

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I showed up like an hour and a half late to my first protest in 3, maybe 4 years. Tiny Toese of Patriot Prayer fame showed up with an amp, a bullhorn, and a grip of fucking goons and started trolling and everyone kinda just left. I almost squared up with one of them (it's good I did not, because they love to instigate fights and then just deploy mace). I screamed at them and kinda made a fool of myself.

When I first got there though there was a guy from PSL gathering like an email list or whatever and I told him I was interested in joining, and filled in the "I'm interested in joining" box.

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[–] SevenSkalls@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago

That sucks that counter protestors made the protest stop protestors. Hopefully PSL still got some members so it helped with something at least.

[–] InexplicableLunchFiend@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago

Tiny Toese of Patriot Prayer

Is this the guy that goes to the ICE facility in Portland with a loud ass bullhorn and screams "All Illegals Out" and "We love ICE" and all that?

[–] Coolkidbozzy@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The protest I went to today was fairly small with a somewhat larger gusano counterprotest. We were louder, they had bigger flags and extremely cringe chants. "Thank you bibi", "regime change now" and the like. PSL was by far the biggest org there, which really helped the messaging stay clear and made outreach easy. We also made good inroads with the local muslim community

[–] WasteTime@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

How safe is to give personal data like e-maila to a person who claims to be from PSL, even if they really are?

I'm not from USA and I'd never do that. Maybe a particular e-mail only used through tor network?

There must be better methods of organization using the internet...

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Someone that's afraid of identifying that they're in PSL isn't going to do very good work for PSL on the street where they have to tell others they're in PSL all the time when organising.

[–] WasteTime@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago

I would never go alone as PSL or any other org, it's easier for police to get you, even more when the protest is at its end.

[–] into_highest_invite@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 week ago

the psl participates in elections so it's not really that kind of organization. anyway if it were that kind of organization they would have to change much more than just their communications channels

[–] mr_sunburn@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago

You were an hour and a half late? This was the first time in 3 years? sadness