[I originally posted this in chapotraphouse, but it was deleted for being “pro-cop” even though that very much wasn’t the case. (I believe PSL was actually involved in organizing the protest if I’m not mistaken.) The mod that deleted it openly broke the sectarian rule too.]

Been seeing a lot of people hating on what the protest marshals did during the pro-Gaza protests at the DNC and I feel they definitely did the right thing. Instigating stuff like going up against the cops under the guise of “revolutionary” action just gets a lot of people arrested and doesn’t accomplish anything.

EDIT: Users who were present at the protests have said, counter to what is claimed in the screenshot, that the protest marshals did NOT call for the police. Thank you for clearing this up, comrades!

  • ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    18
    ·
    edit-2
    3 months ago

    Yeah like I was hoping to see things on the level of the George Floyd protests, or Jan 6 but good.

    It feels like the student encampments got both more attention and more actual concessions and those were in places that should’ve been incredibly easy to ignore, whereas this was where the people with the power actually were.

    Maybe I just fundamentally think having a large peaceful demonstration instead of a smaller non-peaceful one was a bad decision

    But I’m not there, who am I to judge, I’m just armchair quarterbacking protests

    • PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      17
      ·
      edit-2
      3 months ago

      I think it’s fine to disagree with the overall strategy, but they did plan and execute it effectively. What I take issue with is the people (including in this thread) in high dudgeon to demand that the organizers allow contingents of wreckers to hijack the action. Nobody was prevented from planning more radical actions, only from using this one as cover.

      • FemboyStalin [she/her,any]@hexbear.net
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        6
        ·
        3 months ago

        Are you saying that because one org got the permits no other groups are allowed to be there on the same day? Because then the best way to prevent any real action is to plan ‘peaceful protests’ at any event someone might want to do more at.

          • FemboyStalin [she/her,any]@hexbear.net
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            5
            ·
            3 months ago

            One org in the sense that it was one planned event. Sorry its a coalition of groups that all got their own permits.

            Youre right, they should have made their own direct action facebook event and got their own permit if they wanted to do anything outside of those in charge. Turning people over to the cops is important because they didnt listen to the leaders of the coalition.

            • PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              12
              ·
              3 months ago

              Youre right, they should have made their own direct action facebook event and got their own permit if they wanted to do anything outside of those in charge.

              So you’re saying the only way these “groups” (who are they again? I don’t believe you’ve said) can operate is by hijacking someone else’s planned event. Interesting

              Turning people over to the cops is important because they didnt listen to the leaders of the coalition.

              I don’t endorse that and it didn’t happen

                • PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
                  link
                  fedilink
                  English
                  arrow-up
                  12
                  ·
                  3 months ago

                  I don’t have any problem with disagreeing with the overall strategy. I would prefer if protestors had burned the DNC to the ground, frankly. But there’s no reason to believe that would have happened if this march hadn’t been planned and executed on the first day of the convention. The numbers weren’t there for effective violent action, and if people want to get their heads stomped in a police riot to no effect they can do it any other time and place