The Supreme Court ruled Biden’s student-loan forgiveness is illegal, meaning borrowers will resume payments without debt cancellation this year.

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    1 year ago

    Don’t just vote, go get fucking organized with community, and fucking fight.

    And do what exactly? Hold a sign on a sidewalk and yell? It all revolves around voting. If your actions don’t end up changing votes, then it’s literally pointless.

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      1 year ago

      “Getting organized with your community” could mean things like volunteering to help register voters, giving people rides to polling sites, resisting voter suppression, etc. It could also mean things like setting up group panel discussions to help regular people articulate their needs to elected representatives, or organizing fundraisers for political candidates.

      In my opinion these types of activist work have potential to be more helpful than just encouraging to people to vote in an abstract sense.

      You can even sometimes organize groups of people to solve problems directly on their own. In a town I used to live in, people got sick of waiting on the government to provide better clinics, so they started a free clinic with donated money and labor. Later, they were easily able to secure government grants once it was operating. No voting, signs, or yelling required (I believe they did have a few benefit concerts). It was a win for the community, who got a free clinic, and a win for the local government, who got a longstanding problem off their plate with essentially no effort on their part, just a little ongoing funding.

      Doing the work of calling people up & coordinating getting them to come to events (like, say, polling sites, or city council meetings, or benefit concerts) is basically 90% of what “political organizing” is.