Jabril [none/use name]

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  • I think organizations built around solving more pressing needs will do better. You won’t be able to get a person that you are describing to show up to a reading group or to get educated just for education sake. Maybe you could get a person but not many. If you are giving them food when they need food, or helping them get their car lights fixed so they don’t get pulled over and have to pay tickets, or helping them fight their landlords and bosses through organizing legal clinics, or helping them get their power back on, you create a captive audience who have the same issues in life and have come to you willingly because you help them to survive. This is more powerful than helping them to be educated or literate, things they don’t likely see these as issues of importance in their lives, no matter how wrong they may be about that.




  • tbh I doubt they would even get back to you for that, PSL is notoriously bad at getting back to people in general while also only helping people to promote PSL and Peace & Freedom’s candidates or show up to ANSWER stuff. maybe they will be changing these things with the election over, trying to use the momentum to build their party up.

    I think non political people who have the standard 8th grade civ level of understanding installed and otherwise are just obviously people who care about life and other living things are really the best because it is easy to walk them to “the system doesn’t work,” they typically understand that already and just don’t have the words to describe it. getting a group of people in similar shitty circumstances together and forming a plan on how to tackle those issues through building an organization together can be as easy as a bbq in the lawn at your local slumlord’s apartment building. just need to analyze your local conditions and find the contradictions that have the most kinetic energy so to speak









  • If you mean a national org I guess PSL would be it. FRSO is mostly irrelevant and varies a lot chapter to chapter, some of which are even endorsing local lib politicians which at least PSL never does. WWP is also irrelevant and mostly boomers, albeit nice ones. DSA is a colonial project masquerading as leftist to trick newly radicalized people.

    As far as upholding treaties goes, this is one of the most common and largest rallying cries of Indigenous people in the US today, so that position is probably taken up by orgs like FRSO because they do not have Indigenous people internally to rely on for this and it is what a lot of Indigenous people openly advocate for. It isn’t revolutionary compared to the abolition of the US government entirely and return of all land to the formerly colonized subjects but it is revolutionary if you think about how the new democracy movement in china was revolutionary for the time.