#organizing manual

[la-tramontana]

when it comes to voting

It's time to stop relying on political machines and staffers to do the work and act like organizers. Anyone and everyone can do it, but it's important to remember that if you want to move someone from INACTION to ACTION, the biggest influence on that person's behavior is going to be a personal relationship with strong rapport.

That means you.

Make a list of your contacts. ALL your contacts, including the annoying ones. Online and offline. Your neighborhood. Everyone who could roughly be called your monkeysphere. Your target is a list of 10 - 300 people who you have some ability to contact.

Next, power-mapping.

Who knows who? Who influences who? Who is in a friend group together? Chunk them up into key groups. Try to find a person in every group who you think could influence others, and who you could also influence. Identify people in powerful positions.

Do you have friends who have more influence in their particular friend groups than you? Do you have friends who you might be able to convince to go to a protest with you?

It's time to agitate, which means targeted asks. Get your identified influencers, people who already want to be engaged in politics, who will vote but won't do more yet (in unions, we call these "strike captains") to say "yes" to actions such as: protesting, spreading the word, joining a project like Sister District, registering people to vote, as you are able. If they say no, that's fine. Let them cool off, rebuild the relationship stronger, and ask again.

Ask people to ask people, specific people who you know they know, to vote. Check in a couple weeks later to ask about what so-and-so said.

You can't do all of this yourself. Organizing means pulling other people in and sharing responsibility. Your goal is to spend as little time "in charge" as possible.

Document barriers to voting and organize mutual aid to cover those barriers. This may mean helping people pay for their IDs, driving people to the polls, etc. The likely fact is that if you know 50 - 100 people you probably know some people who have some resources and some people who are going to need some help. Connect these people to each other.

Leave the hard no's, the ones who want nothing to do with politics whatsoever, alone and focus on influencing as many people as you can around them. You might be surprised at the outcomes you can achieve.

Something that's worked for me, but YMMV: if anyone asks, you aren't agitating and you aren't organizing and you definitely aren't a leftist of any type. You're a centrist leaning slightly conservative with neutral values (smile). You don't care about specific outcomes, you just want the election to be representative of people's views. You want to get young people involved in "something." It's important to participate in democratic traditions.

Make a timeline of 3 months or so leading up to the election with concrete, achievable goals every week. Your goal is to flip as many of your targets to a. VOTE and b. ORGANIZE their own monkeyspheres. Use gentle peer pressure: "I know so-and-so registered to vote lately, have you? Do you need help?"

Don't forget to remind people of both a. the stuff that pisses you off and b. what you hope to win. Without hope ya got nothing.

Don't use regurgitated lines or scripts; come up with your own motivations, your own way of saying things. The less you sound like you're working for the democratic party, the better.

Here's the money line that got my famously "neutral" and "apolitical" turf of 200 to swing active and anarchist: "No, I'm not going to tell you how to vote. That's your business. Check the issues and see what you think. I just want you to vote in the strike authorization. Don't you think our group should get a say in the outcome?"

[la-tramontana]

It's time to stop relying on political machines and staffers to do the work and act like organizers. Anyone and everyone can do it, but it's important to remember that if you want to move someone from INACTION to ACTION, the biggest influence on that person's behavior is going to be a personal relationship with strong rapport.

That means you.

Make a list of your contacts. ALL your contacts, including the annoying ones. Online and offline. Your neighborhood. Everyone who could roughly be called your monkeysphere. Your target is a list of 10 - 300 people who you have some ability to contact.

Next, power-mapping.

Who knows who? Who influences who? Who is in a friend group together? Chunk them up into key groups. Try to find a person in every group who you think could influence others, and who you could also influence. Identify people in powerful positions.

Do you have friends who have more influence in their particular friend groups than you? Do you have friends who you might be able to convince to go to a protest with you?

It's time to agitate, which means targeted asks. Get your identified influencers, people who already want to be engaged in politics, who will vote but won't do more yet (in unions, we call these "strike captains") to say "yes" to actions such as: protesting, spreading the word, joining a project like Sister District, registering people to vote, as you are able. If they say no, that's fine. Let them cool off, rebuild the relationship stronger, and ask again.

Ask people to ask people, specific people who you know they know, to vote. Check in a couple weeks later to ask about what so-and-so said.

Document barriers to voting and organize mutual aid to cover those barriers. This may mean helping people pay for their IDs, driving people to the polls, etc. The likely fact is that if you know 50 - 100 people you probably know some people who have some resources and some people who are going to need some help. Connect these people to each other.

Leave the hard no's, the ones who want nothing to do with politics whatsoever, alone and focus on influencing as many people as you can around them. You might be surprised at the outcomes you can achieve.

Something that's worked for me, but YMMV: if anyone asks, you aren't agitating and you aren't organizing and you definitely aren't a leftist of any type. You're a centrist leaning slightly conservative with neutral values (smile). You don't care about specific outcomes, you just want the election to be representative of people's views. You want to get young people involved in "something." It's important to participate in democratic traditions.

Make a timeline of 3 months or so leading up to the election with concrete, achievable goals every week. Your goal is to flip as many of your targets to a. VOTE and b. ORGANIZE their own monkeyspheres. Use gentle peer pressure: "I know so-and-so registered to vote lately, have you? Do you need help?"

Don't forget to remind people of both a. the stuff that pisses you off and b. what you hope to win. Without hope ya got nothing.

Don't use regurgitated lines or scripts; come up with your own motivations, your own way of saying things. The less you sound like you're working for the democratic party, the better.

Here's the money line that got my famously "neutral" and "apolitical" turf of 200 to swing active and anarchist: "No, I'm not going to tell you how to vote. That's your business. Check the issues and see what you think. I just want you to vote in the strike authorization. Don't you think our group should get a say in the outcome?"

Forever thinking about how, on election day in 2016, I wore a shirt with an American flag on it because it was what was clean. And the 20-ish year old bagging my groceries made a snide remark about it, followed by 'I didn't vote, they're all the same anyways.' And a fellow grocery worker chimed in agreement that he wasn't voting for the same reason.

And now I can't go to a local drag event without having to walk through a gauntlet of nazis.

I realize that the election is a year and a half away, but please don't fall for the 'they're the same' rhetoric this time around. Both candidates will suck, but they'll suck in different ways and one of them wants my community dead.

[death-envoy]

"She desires only companionship, but the only thing she knows is how to hurt."

[kusanagim91]

Hice unos wallpapers xd

[paper-gold-theories]

Now that You mention flug showing skin, did you saw the picture from the new book of flug cosplaying Jane Fonda?

*spoilers for those who have not read the Manual Para Villanos (Villain's Manual)*

(continuing from this)

GoldHeart: In order to defeat Black Hat Organization I will need to watch all their orientation videos to learn how they think and operate. I'll start with this one...

For no particular reason whatsoever...

(GoldHeart is simping for Flug like he's an idol 😂)

[la-tramontana]

I agree, this is the correct interpretation of the situation. Go buy tickets, stream, etc. everything that you're interested in and would normally consume, but when we see the big quality drop in a couple of months, change your consumption according to how you really feel.

More than that: does anyone remember the general mills strike a few years ago? People vocally complained in public on Twitter about the drop in quality of e.g. cornflakes, with supporting photographs, and said that they would not buy the product due to it not being worthwhile anymore. That was extremely effective. It wasn't a boycott, it was a clarification to the company that their strikebreaking tactics were not going unnoticed on the consumer end.

Doing some productive complaining when we feel like it could be helpful.

"Man, those Barbie interviews were so fun, I really wish the studios would come to terms so we could be entertained like that again. The actors are really talented and should be compensated fairly."

"Man, it's too bad that Hollywood is pushing such bad and unreasonable AI policies, it's their fault we're missing Sandman. I'd really love to see that; I'm not so interested in this reality TV stuff."

"Man, I sure love Star Trek and I only got a Paramount+ subscription in order to watch it. I hope they settle with the striking workers' demands soon or I'm gonna have to cancel because there won't be anything to watch."

Make whatever your decisions are here very public. Boost strike content and Tiktoks from your favorite actors whenever you see it. It's less about their bottom line and more publicly showing your allegiance.

Put the responsibility for the strike on the shoulders of the execs and clarify to them that while you want to consume their product--and therefore they should care about your opinion--but that you are invested in a certain level of quality for that product, and want a good contract so that the shit they put out is worth your dollar.

Be aware that it is likely the companies will pay strikebreakers to say the absolute worst shit about the strike and the strikers in order to break morale and make it sound like it's coming from People Like You, their fans. It's very, very, very important to help the union maintain solidarity because holding onto morale is going to become extremely tough at a certain point. That's the point where your vocal enthusiasm for the strike, and potentially some $$$, is going to be critical.

Keep your powder dry. We aren't there yet.

But when that time comes, this isn't just about your faves or an abstract progressive cause. Back the labor movement and down the line it will help you put a dollar in your pocket, even if you have a non-union workplace. Tired of price gouging? Ridiculous scheduling? Low wages?

If we get a strong Teamsters or even railroad strike, stuff is gonna change in this country. But we need to show folks that it's possible and that we're willing to invest in labor. Successful strikes inspire more strikes. Support the long strike, show 'em how it's done, show all the other unions that they can count on the community.

(also, if you're bored, unionize your workplace. It feels like you're the star of a spy movie or a member of the Resistance and is one of the most badass things you could possibly do)

(also also, if that's a bad idea right now... don't you think it's time to make the union organizer AU as mainstream as the coffee shop AU, regency AU, and the high school AU? If you're missing your show and want to support the strike, why not do some detailed research and stretch a little? I promise it's one of the most psychologically interesting and stressful and funny situations you could possibly put your faves in, PLUS you're doing an educational service to the community. Why not??)

I’m curious as to where you all stand

Reblog for demographics!

[marvalouslynerdish]

crude google eng scans of villainous manual for villains (intro)

this is just a small free taste. please support the official release as piracy is fine but cheating lord black hat out of money by posting free scans online is a no-no. . .unless you want more in which case i'm a dead man anyways for doing this so let's post!

[virtuouswhitehatorganization]

Black Hat Is Going On Another Tour

Gotta keep promoting villainy in every way and have people know the word.

[kalims]

sometimes I remember my first few months as a writer here and start cringing because wtf was i on

[dailyanarchistposts]

Abolishing Capitalism

None of these options are long-term solutions. We live in a civilization based on the separation of society into haves and have-nots. This cannot be allowed to continue.

The entirety of potential political and social structures don’t balance on the axis of capitalism (and democracy, somehow always lumped with capitalism) and state communism. Capitalists would love for you to believe that, of course, because state communism is so clearly a terrible idea; they would love for people to think capitalism is the only alternative to Stalinist atrocity.

Capitalism is an atrocity, however, as a quick survey will let us know. Capitalism (the idea of not working for your money, but instead siphoning the wealth produced by others) has led us to the very brink of planetary ecocide with its mindless search for profit (a feature included even in the dictionary definition!).

Many people have theorized ways of eradicating the rampant criminality of capitalism. Socialism isn’t actually a dirty word, and can mean a whole host of things, many of which are as far from Stalinism as a system could possibly be.

But the simplest one is this: we, as small communities (often overlapping ones), can make decisions for ourselves by the means we best see fit. We can feed and care for ourselves and each other. We can work in ways that make us happy, we can work for projects that actually concern us. If we don’t let the ruling class rule us, we won’t be ruled. If you ask me, I’d call this system anarchism. Other people might call it different things like autonomism or horizontalism or just decentralization, direct democracy, or common sense.

But in order to do this, we have to take back the means of production. The rich have the things they have because they are dirty stinking thieves, whether they know it or not.

just a friendly word from some anarchists

[spongynova]

The infamous Sh'Rann, our beloved rural space vulcans' home, picture taken with the cordial autorisation of Captain Spisee.

I'm really happy to illustrate the Sh'Rann of @android-and-ale, if you haven't started yet, you can read their fic here.

This was a challenge to me for several reasons, for example: I never drew a single spaceship before, but I had so much fun drawing this welded nightmare! It was a blast! So, I hope you'll like it <3

[maricat95]

Marisela reading the new book "Manual para Villanos de Black Hat Organization" 🎩😈📖💀🌹🏵️🌸🖤💙💜♥️

💀💀♥️♥️♥️

[stagelightwhump]

Imagine the pain a "Unit" being repaired must feel, as mechanical claws rifle through their internal organs, altering them, or even replacing them entirely, all without any anesthesia, only a single muscle relaxant to keep them from protecting their insides from being converted!

[fivepebble]

i'm still so flabbergasted that the story clangen generated for the hfjone run was everyone dying one by one in increasingly gruesome ways until bryce was the only one left, and then kept him alive until he died of old age

[dreamlogic]

finally got a job & then my car's engine immediately started smoking on the way home from meeting my supervisors & filling out tax paperwork. 🫠

[kusanagim91]

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