I agree. I’m personally not a big fan of XR due to how I’ve seen them hijack protests lead by Indigenous comrades and other reasons. All this does seem very vague and almost assumes that the state can be held accountable by just yelling at them enough which should be an apparent fallacy to any real “eco activist”.
We’re certainly beyond that point and yes, direct action would speak louder and be a more constructive use of time.
This appeared in Adbusters which is the same 'zine that helped bring about Occupy, a movement that is not without its flaws. At any rate, I wanted to share to see what everyone thinks about this letter and next steps for our movements.
Next steps? Hard to tell for me. We need to convince the climate change deniers/ignorants. Because we don’t need to convince people already on our side. (But maybe I’m wrong.) I think demonstrations, sit ins and occupations are not very helpful because they don’t persuade people, they rather make them hostile to us.
So I’d love to hear new ideas from “The Third Force”.
I agree. I’m personally not a big fan of XR due to how I’ve seen them hijack protests lead by Indigenous comrades and other reasons. All this does seem very vague and almost assumes that the state can be held accountable by just yelling at them enough which should be an apparent fallacy to any real “eco activist”.
We’re certainly beyond that point and yes, direct action would speak louder and be a more constructive use of time.
This appeared in Adbusters which is the same 'zine that helped bring about Occupy, a movement that is not without its flaws. At any rate, I wanted to share to see what everyone thinks about this letter and next steps for our movements.
Next steps? Hard to tell for me. We need to convince the climate change deniers/ignorants. Because we don’t need to convince people already on our side. (But maybe I’m wrong.) I think demonstrations, sit ins and occupations are not very helpful because they don’t persuade people, they rather make them hostile to us. So I’d love to hear new ideas from “The Third Force”.