In response to @jolyonrubs' question on Twitter, "Just Stop Oil — what's the alternative?"
Zapatistas. Stop Cop City. Land-based resistance and autonomous movements. In contrast to disruption that makes the public a target (which doesn't really have historical evidence?), getting wiser. Recognizing our places as frontline communities — and acting accordingly today, in ways that bring people on board (for food, ending carbon and plastic pollution, resilience and survival, place-based cultures.) Glad to connect more on this.
As an excellent example, the convergence of an XR chapter with a local squatters movement. The climate activists recognizing the synergy of place-based "generative refusal" (Leanne Simpson) with the squatters, and getting involved in place-based resistance and a strategic material intervention to change the system in that city. Same story with Atlanta and #StopCopCity ...
... whose work has resulted in hundreds of people — including the middle class people and workers, who seem so elusive to other climate movements — getting involved in mass protest and advocating abolitionist and ecological perspectives to local government. Example here, from a firefighter in Atlanta talking abolition perspectives to the government:
"If you listen to any of the #StopCopCity public comment, you can hear how deeply abolitionist frameworks have taken root––so many people, whether identifying as abolitionists or not, articulated a vision of safety dependent on resources and relationships, rather than policing." — @micahinatl
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