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Costing relevant people money, basically. Strikes, sabotage, obstructions, that sort of thing
I love this idea, but how would this be mass organized without having the leaders of this movement almost immediately placed into prison?
One common tenant of direct action is decentralization. It's a lot harder to squash direct action when the people doing this stuff are just groups of 2-5+ friends (it's called an affinity group) who believe in the same stuff and have no common leader. Sometimes direct action is as simple as smashing up some windows in the dead of night and running away.
There's legal direct action (striking for example). As for the illegal stuff I have no idea, but it happens. Just Stop Oil made it three years before disbanding, and there are plenty of direct action-focused groups lying around.
That’s where the mass action comes in. With enough people acting simultaneously, you have nowhere near enough prisons to hold the people protesting; and then the only way to stop them is some act of appeasement.
I don't think I can offer a solid answer to this I'm afraid, I am terrible at organising people. I would suggest that there are a lot of existing established groups with many different goals though, so it might be worth seeing if there's one you like that has a presence in your area
You all can't be serious right now. Are you saying the same lame fucking actions that all businesses are already aware of and have multiple folders for every single one just waiting to be countered is the way we do things?
I wouldn't doubt there's insurance for direct action.
I have never understood why people think stuff like this works in modern times. They're organized and funded. They have PhD mentats producing action plans and optimizations for how to handle any direct action you can throw at them. To the degree that I bet some of them fund projects that market direct action to their detectors since they already paid for the counter plans.
Anything that has been done in the past 50 years should be considered dead in the water. Need to adapt and find new ways to cost them.
Hell shit posting is honestly one of the most effective. They pay millions to get their message out there. They're limited by funding and how ever many bot farms they can purchase. But we have numbers and free time. If organized and done right you could exponentially explode their costs just by shit posting and making them pay more to get eyes on their stuff.
It seems very silly to claim that strikes don't work, they regularly get shit done. But I did not actually advocate for anything in particular in my comment, I just answered the question above
And yet, Brian Robert Thompson will never kill again.