Soberana is a collective in Brazil that is doing exactly that. They are targeting specifically online spaces though. Still, pretty successful these last few years since covid.
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What's wrong with protests?
99.9% of them are useless toothless performance to make the participants feel good. I want to see people disrupting Republican party meetings, protesting executives at their homes, and other things that can't be discussed online. But instead PSL prints off a bunch of signs and chants for two hours in a park far away from the bad guys. It's a waste of time
PSL prints off a bunch of signs and chants for two hours in a park far away from the bad guys
Different question: who do you think the protests are for? Cause it kind of sounds like you think that the protests need to be in the face of the bad people, like getting stunted on is gonna change them.
I think it's much more useful to think of protests as radical networking events. Obviously they have to lead to further action to be useful, but at least there's a practical outcome there, whereas yelling at the bad people isn't going to change them in any meaningful way. Maybe it could be cathartic, but that's about as useful as your framing of the PSL protests here. Catharsis isn't a political action.
Have you talked to the organizers about the goals they're trying to achieve with these protests?
Good agitprop always connects theory to local conditions. You canβt really mass produce it
There's a lot of local conditions that everybody shares right now. Tying war spending to lack of funds for housing/healthcare/education/etc for example.
I was thinking of remixing those army ads to describe what you are really doing if you sign up.
There are lots of sorta left-wing news outlets. There's always blogging if that's your thing. It would be nice if there was one website that was a syndication of lots of outlets, but that doesn't necessarily need to exist. I guess what you're describing that you're looking for is somewhat vague.
I feel you. I'm looking for good agitprop for wheatpasting.
Why can't these nerds do something practical, like publishing a newspaper in 2026?
What if the newspaper was mass mailed to people... stop trying to sell it π€