direct action

Basics At Protests

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What you’ll find with a lot of these early topics that we’re covering, we did talk about direct action. It’s just one of those initial spokes. More than anything, it’s just important that you can talk to others, share your ideas, go in front of people and talk to them about it and join in coordination with other people who feel the same way. This is like the last piece of that puzzle because we’re talking all about tactics at I want you guys to understand mobilization and also understand some of the dynamics that you are likely to face while protesting. When it comes to direct action, you will often be in situations where you need to improvise. Anything that involves so many human beings standing together at once means that the situation can change very quickly and you might have to just completely adapt. In this kind of … Read more

Welcome to the Incubator

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So if you’re here and you’re reading this, I’m just glad this is an incubator for community organizers. We talk about direct action, outreach and publishing as a three part system to build power and drive impact. If you are fired about up about doing that for yourself or your neighborhood, that’s very good. You know, Atlanta has what’s marketed as a long history of pushing for justice. But we also have, I mean a lot of that is marketing. We, we also have a long history of jaw dropping corruption, just like any major city. So being a part of that is important.

The way the world is right now is enough to motivate anybody. And if you’re using that motivation to show up in the lives of the people around you, in your neighborhood, in your city, in your trade, that’s very powerful because not everybody gets that … Read more