PSA to all people organizing #resistance against authoritarians.
This is what I think should be your primary method (see the GIF).
Stop reacting to your opponents, make your opponents react to you.
Mass is great and you can't make it without organizing a lively community, but it should not be the end goal.
This is from my experience. I was one of the core organizers of youth protests in Lithuania in ~2004 when we successfully impeached our authoritarian-leaning russian-financed president.
https://www.theverge.com/news/633091/tesla-takedown-protesters-planning-biggest-day-of-action Tesla Takedown protesters planning ‘biggest day of action’. Organizers are calling for 500 demonstrations at all 277 Tesla showrooms, as well as Supercharger stations, on March 29th. #Resistance #GOP Tesla Takedown protesters have become a flashpoint for opposition to Musk’s actions to eliminate federal aid programs and fire tens of thousands of government employees as the head of DOGE, or the Department of Government Efficiency.
I heard that #Tesla dealerships are company-owned, not franchises, so the cars on the lot would be owned by Tesla Corp.
"The resistance is working y'all. Tesla is tanking, protests are erupting, Elon looked like he was about to cry on live TV. That used car show at the white house was spectacularly hilarious. Keep going (don't attack private person's property though). #resist #resistance #fascism"
#Turkey detains 37 over 'provocative' social media posts following arrest of #Istanbul mayor
Thousands rally outside Istanbul city hall for 2nd night over mayor’s arrest
by Mehmet Guzel and Susan Frazer, March 20, 2025
ISTANBUL (AP) — "Thousands of people gathered outside Istanbul’s city hall for a second consecutive night on Thursday to rally against the arrest of the city’s mayor, a prominent contender against President #RecepTayyipErdogan, which many view as a politically driven attempt to eliminate a key rival from the next presidential race.
"Mayor #EkremImamoglu was arrested after a dawn raid on his residence on Wednesday as part of investigations into alleged corruption and terror links, escalating a crackdown on opposition figures and dissenting voices. Several other prominent figures, including two district mayors, were also detained.
"The detention of a popular opposition leader deepened concerns over #democracy and sparked #protests in Istanbul and elsewhere, despite a four-day ban on #demonstrations in the city and road closures. "
https://apnews.com/article/turkey-istanbul-mayor-arrest-crackdown-imamoglu-eb2f5f0582a32e0c15f881b54fda2ffc
#TurkeyProtests #Authoritarianism #Resistance #WorldPol #SilencingDissent #Erdogan #ThisIsHowToProtest #TakeToTheStreets
#HealthcareWorkers in #PortlandME are also taking to the streets today (yesterday it was #Teachers, #Students and parents).
#MaineResists #Resistance #ResistDOGE
I’d like to just point out that sure, we’re fighting a criminal corrupt fascist regime with zero morals or ethics (or empathy, as they’ve self proclaimed), but Canadians are holding the line WHILE ALSO BAKING COOKIES.
@Lydie@tech.lgbtThe resistance is working y'all. Tesla is tanking, protests are erupting, Elon looked like he was about to cry on live TV. That used car show at the white house was spectacularly hilarious. Keep going (don't attack private person's property though). #resist #resistance #fascism
@markwyner@mas.toMy friend @sergiodomeyko found this footage of resisters in Türkiye. They’re not having it.
I edited the footage to help inspire Americans to act.
We need to wake up and learn how to start a revolution.
(Song: “Ruckus” by Konata Small.)
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Sirens sounded across central occupied Palestine, including in Tel Aviv and al-Quds, following a ballistic missile strike, originating from Yemen, Zionist media reported.
The sirens were sounded at 4:01 AM (local time), while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was at the Knesset, Zionist Channel 14 reported.
Netanyahu was reportedly escorted to a bomb shelter during the event. Countless other settlers also rushed to safe areas, where 13 were injured due to stampedes.
Furthermore, flights were diverted from the Ben Gurion Airport.
However, occupation forces said that the missile was intercepted over Saudi Arabia.
This marks the second strike attributed to the Yemeni Armed Forces (YAF) since the renewal of the Zionist aggression on the Gaza Strip, which also coincides with renewed United States-led strikes on Yemen.
Later the spokesperson for the YAF, Brigadier General Yahya Saree, announced that Yemen’s Rocket Force fired a Palestine-2 hypersonic missile at the Ben Gurion Airport in response to the ongoing Zionist massacres against Palestinians.
He also mentioned that various branches of the YAF conducted coordinated attacks against the American aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman and other vessels in the Red Sea.
On Wednesday evening, US warplanes launched fresh airstrikes on Yemen, targeting the capital Sanaa, and the provinces of Saada and al-Bayda.
The strikes hit areas near the Ministry of Communications and the Postal Authority in northern Sanaa.
In al-Bayda, US aircraft targeted the al-Sawadiyah district, while in Saada, airstrikes struck the outskirts of the city, the correspondent reported. According to Yemen’s SABA news agency, the US attack on the al-Thawra district in northern Sanaa hit an unfinished event hall within a residential neighborhood.
Overnight on Thursday, US airstrikes targeting various areas in Yemen renewed. Reports state that strikes targeted the Zabid district in the coastal Hodeidah governorate. Another set of strikes targeted the Saada governorate, our correspondent added.
Meanwhile, the YAF has engaged the US Navy, which is responsible for such attacks on Yemen, in intermittent battles, targeting Carrier Strike Group 8 on multiple occasions.
In his statement, Saree emphasized that the intensification of American air raids targeting Yemen will not stop Yemenis from supporting the Palestinian people. He reiterated that these operations will continue until the aggression on Palestinians is halted and the siege on the Gaza Strip is lifted.
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To all the Youth.
In 2011 the Third World War was raising the level of conflicts and violence throughout the Middle Eastern region, at the same time from North Africa to the Middle East wide popular uprisings began. The forces of capitalist modernity such as United States, Turkiye and Israel used against these revolts the organization known to us as ISIS. The islamic state with its mentality of hatred and denial of the life, started the immoral and violent aggression against villages, cities and all the democratic movements that were fighting in order to get rid of decades of dictatorships. In doing so these groups were trying to stop the revolutionary wave.
These jihadist groups came to the peak of their strength and established their strongholds in Syria. It is also there where their decline began and where they were defeated thanks to the YPJ and the YPG. Their heroic fight led to the victory against the attacks of the islamist groups.
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The resonance of the historical resistance that the defense forces carried out towards the islamic state spread all over the world and thousands of internationalists joined the Revolution in Rojava. Many of them fought until the end, sacrificing their own life in the defense of freedom and democracy.
Their decision to leave behind the life in the capitalist system and fight in defense of the principles of equality, freedom of the woman and of all peoples, had a great influence on all societies in the rest of the world. Their decision made us questioning: those who do not live in service of the society, with daily commitment in order to defend it, improve it and care for it, can be said that they are really living?
Lorenzo Orsetti is one of these young people who, joining the ranks of the resistance as antifascist gave everything and fought until the end. With his choice of living a partisan life in the 21st century he shared, especially to the younger generations, a message of hope: “War is a reality closer than what you think and it regards us all, but for how much these horrors seem invincible and inevitable, there will always be someone who will be willing to take weapons and protect life, tomorrow you can and you will have to be the ones that will do it.”
Lorenzo Orsetti has become martyr defending the Revolution of life with courage and love. Leaving inerasable signs that still guide us in our struggle. His values are immortal and this is why we say that Martyrs Never Die. Their social existence is maintained alive in many different ways: first of all through the continuation of their struggle by those who came after them. Also, their names are taken by other young people who will embrace their lives and example.
The complexity of capitalist modernity requires us to have awareness and deep analysis, but the courage to make the right choices in the right moments is given to us by the example of the martyrs. To understand the historical phase in which we are now it is essential to understand their reality. If the ideas of Rêber Apo are today so widespread, if the revolution and the paradigm are defended in North East Syria, and not only, it is thanks to the sacrifice of the martyrs. Especially if we can now fight for a political and non -military solution is thanks to their sacrifice.
On the 18th of March of six years ago the comrade Lorenzo Orsetti became martyr, during the last offensive that led to the military defeat of ISIS. This reflection is dedicated to his effort: his decision to fight injustice and defend free life led him to come to this land and leave a deep trace that guides and motivates us in our daily work.
“Every storm begins with a single drop, try to be that drop” – Şehîd Tekoşer Piling
Şehîd Namirin –Martyrs Never Die
Revolutionary Greetings and Respect,
Internationalist Commune of Rojava
18 March 2025
Resistance is alive and well in the United States
https://wagingnonviolence.org/2025/03/resistance-alive-well-us/
Revolut°Permanente
Mahmoud Khalil's response to his kidnapping by our government March 8.
Letter from a Palestinian Political Prisoner in Louisiana March 18, 2025
#MahmoudKhalil #FreePalestine #humanrights #apartheid #palestine #abolishICE #columbiaprotests #endtheoccupation #sanctionisrael #genocide #antizionist #resistance #fromtherivertothesea
@palestine @israel
Despite what news coverage may make it seem, protests against the Trump regime are more widespread now than they were at the same point in Trump's first term. And the types of protests being used by regime opponents are far more diverse.
#USPol #protests #resistance #TrumpRegime
https://wagingnonviolence.org/2025/03/resistance-alive-well-us/
I propose MAGA = “Make America Grotesque Again.” Public servants who vowed to defend the #Constitution are dismantling #democracy & the 3 levels of government that guard it. Good News? #Resistance is happening in the streets, town halls, media, https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/03/19/the-bad-news-continues-and-the-good-news-stirs/ [dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org]
And one more word about those Righteous Gentiles. After the Holocaust, psychologists began to study them to figure out what made them courageously agree to hide Jews while the majority went along with tyranny. Maybe they were friends with Jews before the war? Maybe they had spare rooms or extra savings tucked away? Maybe some people just come wired with an altruistic personality?
Nope. The psychologists found that none of these factors made the difference. Instead, as Bregman recounts in his book:
Turns out there was one circumstance that determined almost everything. A new analysis of data … showed that when this condition was met, nearly everyone took action — 96 percent to be precise.
And what was that condition?
Simple: you had to be asked. Those who were asked to help someone in danger almost always said yes.
Asking things of each other and acting together is how we move unjust systems. So go ahead.
Reach out to someone. Ask.
The article quotes author Larissa MacFarquhar, who wrote in her book Strangers Drowning: Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Urge to Help:
"In wartime — or in a crisis so devastating that it resembles war, such as an earthquake or a hurricane — duty expands far beyond its peacetime boundaries. In wartime, it’s thought dutiful rather than unnatural to leave your family for the sake of a cause. In wartime, the line between family and strangers grows faint, as the duty to one’s own enlarges to encompass all the people who are on the same side…
This is the difference between do-gooders and ordinary people: for do-gooders, it is always wartime. They always feel themselves responsible for strangers — they always feel that strangers, like compatriots in war, are their own people."
How do I resist Trump without ruining my life?
VOX: I want to fight rising authoritarianism. But I’m scared of becoming a target.
by Sigal Samuel
Mar 6, 2025, 11:00 AM UTC
Original link:
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/400603/trump-resistance-activism-democracy-authoritarianism
Archived link:
https://archive.ph/8OCDF
Related to today's activism thread:
https://universeodon.com/@SrRochardBunson/114189248062851753
#Resistance #Music #free here https://archive.org/details/invisible-illusion-a-hole-in-the-blast-furnace #freepalestine #gaza #stopthegenocide #freemusic #undergroundmusic #industrialmusic #triphop #witchhouse #electronic #ethnic #experimental #triphop #tribal #darkwave #darkambient #ccmusic #creativecommons
