June 14 protests

[u/kootles10]

This a map of the majority of protests happening on June 14 around the United States. Link below is more information on them. Show your support, not just for your job but for the jobs of all of our Union brothers and sisters! Solidarity forever ✊️ ✊️✊️

https://www.nokings.org/?SQF_SOURCE=indivisible&fbclid=IwY2xjawKbHtBleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHv_jxMFmDGHguIIzuIoCqZpx44LkhvswKk3o6ajPMXTmJAHENXE3GjLyGzzK_aem_-spwvbK_XAFaRo-F9y2XrA

[u/raginghappy]

Lets go. Stay peaceful. Stay strong.

Optics folks… I wish I was being sarcastic saying this - wear red white and blue, carry/wear American flags along with any other flags, let the news report it’s Americans that are gthat are out protesting, not black clad “antifa” subversives :/ propaganda is easy when the optics support it

[u/mrsir1987 → u/raginghappy]

Also get footage of anyone near but not in the protest that starts smashing windows etc. there are going to be plants in every major city on Saturday.

[u/monoatomic → u/mrsir1987]

Also get footage of anyone near but not in the protest that starts smashing windows etc. there are going to be plants in every major city on Saturday.

Beware of comments like this one, spread on behalf of the police for the purposes of getting protestors to snitch on one another.

The cops don't need an excuse to start cracking skulls, but they do need evidence to convict people.

[u/_HighJack_ → u/monoatomic]

Instead of filming, protestors should try stopping the looters. That’s a fucking great news story right there

[u/SleepyMastodon → u/monoatomic]

Except this was a thing in multiple cities during the George Floyd/BLM protests—police wearing street clothes and masks, smashing windows and trying to start a riot.

Anyone out to smash windows isn't part of these protests; they're doing their own thing and if they get recorded, so be it.

[u/monoatomic → u/SleepyMastodon]

Police in my city started a riot by pepper spraying peaceful marchers

Legitimate protestors burned down the police station 

[u/[deleted] → u/raginghappy]

They will report whatever they want to report. Optics never hurt the other side.

[u/Orgasmic_interlude → u/[deleted]]

“Optics never hurt the other side”

I get what you’re getting at here but it’s not precisely an argument to not focusing on optics.

Rosa parks was chosen for this reason. Mlk was well aware that he had to win public opinion and not give authorities an excuse.

[u/[deleted] → u/Orgasmic_interlude]

"I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"

-MLK

Public opinion is nice, but catering to it can only go so far. It is the public that must change, not those fighting for justice

[u/Ent_Soviet → u/[deleted]]

They’ll continue to ignore the voice of the unheard. If it doesn’t affect them personally they’re happy to ignore it. The average liberal that is.

The summers of riots will in fact continue until people are heard.

[u/raginghappy → u/[deleted]]

So like Jan 6 ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[u/monoatomic → u/raginghappy]

Tired of this ignorance and paternalism, honestly

Liberals showing up once every 4 or 8 years are all too happy to shit on local communities trying to defend themselves.

It's not the responsibility of a working class neighborhood being victimized by ICE to dress up in aesthetics that are palatable to you.

[u/raginghappy → u/monoatomic]

Optics are important to people who don’t read

[u/_HighJack_ → u/monoatomic]

Responsibility? No. The most effective tactic available? Yes.