People need affordable housing, jobs, education, healthcare, daycare for kids, parks and rec, police that help not harass, good libraries, good grocery stores, safe drinking water, …etc.
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The pick-up-litter idea is common at our community garden, with an implicit apolitical philosphy, and an approach that sometimes blames the oppressed and fetishizes tiny token steps in neighborhoods.
‘Revolution’ seems sensationalist but that is what seems required.
Nonviolent resistence seems the only option for that.
However, reactionary state and vigilante violence is very likely.
That would be bad on many levels, but maybe sticking to the status quo is more harmful, politically, economically, and ecologically.
Events now in 2020 indicate that laying low and playing it safe politically isn’t a safe or noble path
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