Why is this solarpunk? Because changing society takes people power. Because protests change nations. Because for the last decade protests inspired by democratic anarchist principles have sprung up in nation after nation, from the Arab Spring to Occupy Wall Street. And the after action report of the first two decades of the 21st century shows not just how anarchist-inspired protests began but how they fail - and who takes advantage of that failure.
This article is long, complex, and hard to read. Emotionally hard. It holds some truths that are hard for punks and anarchists to hear.
And if your activism is more than just posting online it may be the most important article you read this year.
They failed because they were attacked by the same people who are supposed to be on our side. At least in the United States, occupy wallstreet got just as much mockery from Democrat voters as it did from Republicans.
Idk what made you think liberals are on the side of democracy when it doesn’t make them money.
This was 16 years ago so I hadn’t learned that at the time. Frankly it came as a shock to a lot of people in the Occupy movement.