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Feminist OrganizationLet's Organize as a Bi-partisan Mass Movement
I just saw a presentation by a scholar of effective mass movements and gained clarity about the 4 vital aspects of an effective mass movement. Though the presentation and interview were decisively skewed left wing, anyone could use these ideas productively. I would be interested in organizing with others to do precisely that. Here are the 4 points of what effective mass movements do. They:
1 - Assemble large, diverse bases of mass popular participation
2 - Channel that participation into meaningful political pressure, persuasion, and disruption that begins to erode the loyalty of their opponents' pillars of support (pillars like media, businesses, governmental bodies, school boards, etc.)
3 - Don't rely solely on street protest, incorporating tactics like strikes, boycotts, and economic leverage and not cooperating or acting like things are normal/acceptable.
4 - Develop organizational resilience and discipline as opposition against them escalates. Then use any incidents of brutality against them to make the case of their moral superiority before undecided onlookers.
I would add a 5th element, which is to have clear, simple asks that are consistently repeated by all members, with an action path those in power can clearly be confirmed to have taken.
So for example, we might have an ask like: "Make a clear distinction between sex and gender identity, and have all laws use only sex, and never gender identity."
"Make the age of consent for gender identity changes, whether social or medical, the same as the age of consent for drinking alcohol."
Anyone interested?