Community Networking against concentration camps
People in New York activated their existing networks to oppose the siting of a concentration camp in their community.
Micah Sifry gives a good rundown of the tyrant's plans to build concentration camps in warehouses, but I want to point out how people mobilized their existing networks to raise opposition. Many different networks, from formal advocacy groups like Indivisible, to reactivated grassroots letter-writing circles, came together to create a formidable force.
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Chatting with attendees before and during the hearing, it was clear that a variety of group organizing in the area had pulled their members to the event. In addition to a large number of Chester residents, there were people connected to Indivisible groups in nearby Warwick, Greenwood Lake and Goshen; members of Lower Hudson Valley DSA; For the Many (a power-building group focused on tenant organizing, affordable housing advocacy, climate justice, and organizing Amazon workers in the Hudson River cities of Poughkeepsie, Newburgh, Kingston and Beacon), and hipsters from Cold Spring. One middle-aged woman told me that she and a few friends had gathered up the remnants of several grassroots “postcarding circles” and turned them into their own micro-organizing group.
Community Networking is the key to power, for whatever you need it for.
