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Look also the search string "stop sending arms"
And now, without comment, a word from the University of WA
Readers may wish to skip the rest of Protest Curmudgeon's rant, but RantWoman needs to get a few things off her chest based on some heated moments from her career as a campus political activist.
The rant can be distilled as
1. Please more about Gaza.
Slogan of the moment: People can't build a future for their children on the mass graves of other children.
2. WHAT THE F were y'all thinking?
Did y'all REALLY mean to generate television footage that can help Sinclair Broadcasting flood the zone or at least RantWoman's YouTube feed with dramatic videos, all the same length, and headlines such as "intense night..." "about 30 students arrested...."
If you're going to set things on fire, MAYBE show that people have learned something from CHOP, be prepared that the Fire Department will, reasonably, want police escort.
Re property destruction inside the engineering building, was that REALLY necessary???? RantWoman will be interested in bodycam footage .BUT if a protest is going to wrack up $1million in damages, perhaps protestors owe the world some kind of manifesto. For examples put the names Daniel and Phillip Berrigan into your search engines. Be as self-righteous as you need to be, but PLEASE try to keep the focus on Gaza instead of making the campus look a little too much like the precursors of Gaza.
3. If RantWoman were going to Make NONVIOLENT Protests great again, here are a whole bunch of observations and suggestions.
If you plan to occupy a building, plan ahead about how to take care of bodily necessities while you are inside..
Do you REALLY need to trash the place?
A clean well-written manifesto is a must to help everyone stay on message.
Is beefing with the authorities really necessary? How does that benefit the cause?
Can you PERHAPS plan an event that does not immediately make police reach for their riot gear???
Now please take your pick of video options.
Thank you for your attention,
Sincerely,
RantWoman
PS. OH GOOD! Attention from the Insurrectionist in Chief, Secretary Puppy Killer, and that blond sort of kind of lawyer lady.
Can the protest be rebranded, maybe not as a "day of love," but perhaps "day of Like" or "day of slightly warm fuzzy feelings?"
And still MORE
S.U.P.E.R-UW
Messaging as reported feels a little off. That is, RantWoman can imagine describing October 7 as a demonstration of assymetrical warfare: people who literally have no other path to defend their interests confronting a much more powerful counterpart. This terminology might come up in the world of academic political science
But oops, wait. Friends don't let friends commit genocide--or even collective punishment. Alert observers will note that every time there is a hostage exchange, there are a handful of hostages released and dozens of Palestinian prisoners. And so many other details of life as a Palestinian that basically amount to collective punishment. And now President Orange Man with his capricious executive orders is basically inflicting collective punishment on all kinds of organizations because of individuals he does not like. In this case the point is penalizing or even threatening to penalize academic institutions that try to make environments were people can learn and speak of difficult topics from different angles.
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