protests work when they - public enough to effectively shape the opinion of the mass electorate - they demonstrate enough literal constituent energy for the rep to feel accountable absent a revolution they are staged concessions to an electoral strategy (i love to protest)https://twitter.com/sylvia_nyc/status/1444841147147370500 …
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re: story sharing w/o protest...at best we are appealing to the morality of the people who make decisions, and that's a tenuous-at-best strategy. absent the base it doesn't work, and the best way to demonstrate the size of the base is...probably a protest
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last year in some of our coalitions spaces we talked a lot about - mass canvasses in key districts - house actions to key electeds/decision makers both good and honestly not sure which is scarier to said elected!
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also sorry to be lame but the biggest thing we can do to demonstrate the size of our base is probably win a primary election
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oh and ofc also like withdraw our economic support for the system which can work basically in three ways: - strikes - rent strikes - boycotts? (not sold on this one)
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