Unions are a great way to organize protests, there is no doubt. That’s why the US has spent decades destroying them through legal and illegal means. Unions are less than 10% of USA workforce, and most of those are cops or government. They are far more likely to be used against any protest in the USA, not the way to organize protests.
We have many protest movements, but the USA has top-tier surveillance of data since Patriot Act. Your organization is most likely thoroughly infiltrated or even controlled by government actors (Proud Boys are a recent example) if it’s national. The FBI has been doing this since the civil rights movement, now more than ever, and they are very good at this. How do you communicate and orchestrate large movements that are not "approved"and eventually even controlled?
Also, Bolivia’s geography allows this blockading to work; most large countries can’t duplicate what they are doing to the same effect, too many easy points of access. I expect use of force here by outside actors, I hope I am wrong and the Bolivians succeed.
We don’t really though, we do have guns, fat lot of good that does us from a militarized fucking police with unlimited resources behind them. Thank that 1980s war on crime for the fascist dictatorship. It was all by design.
Unions are a great way to organize protests, there is no doubt. That’s why the US has spent decades destroying them through legal and illegal means. Unions are less than 10% of USA workforce, and most of those are cops or government. They are far more likely to be used against any protest in the USA, not the way to organize protests.
We have many protest movements, but the USA has top-tier surveillance of data since Patriot Act. Your organization is most likely thoroughly infiltrated or even controlled by government actors (Proud Boys are a recent example) if it’s national. The FBI has been doing this since the civil rights movement, now more than ever, and they are very good at this. How do you communicate and orchestrate large movements that are not "approved"and eventually even controlled?
Also, Bolivia’s geography allows this blockading to work; most large countries can’t duplicate what they are doing to the same effect, too many easy points of access. I expect use of force here by outside actors, I hope I am wrong and the Bolivians succeed.
Their peasants are armed, they have homemade bazookas and idk what else.
The US got that too
We don’t really though, we do have guns, fat lot of good that does us from a militarized fucking police with unlimited resources behind them. Thank that 1980s war on crime for the fascist dictatorship. It was all by design.