legacy media is dead. So too are the normal means of organizing protest. Past structures have failed to enact meaningful change. The future is decentralized.

Folks that tell you that you HAVE to organize a certain way are not your comrade. Boomers, incrementalists and NIMBY liberals take up too much oxygen, they diminish the flames of change.

#Protest #USProtest #Decentralize

I think the media got it, because in Atlanta at least it was on news channel 5. The helicopter was circling overhead.

The people on the big talking head shows may try to ignore it, but they are becoming largely irrelevant.

No young person I know gets their news through TV. Most likely through social media. The protests were all over Reddit.

I will add that because protests were happening in every large city, they were impossible to miss.

@ianzman

I'm writing from an European perspective - where people don't watch local news from Atlanta - and who are then way to quick to complain and write stuff like "Why aren't Americans protesting".

@ianzman

Yeah the learned helplessness is weird (but I'm not sure whether it's worse than in other countries), I have seen comments that were like "But what am supposed to do about it, there's nothing I can do" which is weird given the USA's rich history of direct action, civil rights etc.

And all that "It's too late, it's over" defeatism stuff.

#USpol