Rita, antifascist 🏴🦯🦯🦯<p>how to catalyze resistance to oppression:</p><p>“To every ‘peaceful protester’ today: if you insist that violent protest is always counter-productive, queer history is not on your side…</p><p>Stonewall was a leaderless, multiracial riot “the majority of people in the streets were angry queers without any particular allegiance to any organization or ideology, fed up with the oppression they faced every day…</p><p>As in the uprisings unfolding today, young people who had nothing to lose, who weren’t held back by the hesitation or baggage of their elders, were the ones who pushed the struggle forward…</p><p>Rioting can work where peaceful protest doesn’t</p><p>In both the Stonewall riots and the Justice for George Floyd demonstrations, the difference was that protesters began using tactics that interrupted law and order, respectability, non-violence, and permission from authorities.”</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/protests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>protests</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/stonewall" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>stonewall</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/riot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>riot</span></a> <br><a href="https://crimethinc.com/2020/06/28/stonewall-means-riot-right-now-what-the-queer-uprisings-of-1969-share-with-the-george-floyd-protests-of-2020" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">crimethinc.com/2020/06/28/ston</span><span class="invisible">ewall-means-riot-right-now-what-the-queer-uprisings-of-1969-share-with-the-george-floyd-protests-of-2020</span></a></p>