Distributed as in non centralized. Many people feel like there is nothing they can do to contribute to meaningful change, especially with how spread out Americans are, but surely there has got to be something.
Using the trend of blocking traffic as an example, I think a coordinated effort to not just block a highway in one city, but to block state routes and other arteries in many places would be more effective. Instead of one city having bad traffic for a day, it would be many towns and it would be harder to dismiss as a local problem if people across the states are engaging.
Blocking traffic will only turn people away at best and get you run over at worst.
Maybe it depends on who you are blocking.
The ones I don’t understand is when they just block and entire interstate or main road. Like, why? You are keeping other random people like parents and kids from going home? How is that helping? It just makes them all REALLY mad at you and your cause.
But if you blocked specific vehicles, like ICE vans. Now we are actually doing something productive.
Oh, definitely, unfortunately that’s rarely what they do.
And I’d add this… they rarely protest where they need to be protesting as well.
Netanyahu isn’t even AWARE of the Gaza protests in the US and wouldn’t give two shits if he was aware, but you take it to Israel and protest in Tel Aviv? That will get the attention you need.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/25/israel-protest-tel-aviv-army-war-gaza
https://www.opb.org/news/series/racenw/race-northwest-united-states-jordan-lund-portland/
reminder to everyone that that’s why Jordan doesn’t like BLM.
It is so unfortunate that Bureau of Land Management and Black Lives Matter are difficult to tell apart by context at first glance.
Oh, god no, as stated, stories like this are why I don’t like BLM:
https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2015/12/31/dunbar-slayings-prompt-a-rethinking-of-black-lives-matter/
https://web.archive.org/web/20250830052012/https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2015/12/31/dunbar-slayings-prompt-a-rethinking-of-black-lives-matter/
These dead kids in Chicago were met with SILENCE from BLM. Their lives and deaths didn’t matter because they did not fit the BLM narrative.
“The activists working to protest rogue cops must work just as hard to shatter indifference toward the violence plaguing normal citizens. Or else black lives south and west still won’t matter. Only our escape from the city will.”
Unless the perpetrator is a cop, specifically a white cop, BLM is dead fucking silent. Which means they aren’t really BLM. They’re BLM*
*When it fits our agenda.
The article is the essence of All Lives Matter. And that isn’t a good thing.
The “All Lives” folks would conveniently skip over this bit:
“The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that between 2010 and 2012, on an annual basis only one in every 40,000 white Americans was a homicide victim, while the number was one in 5,000 for African-Americans.”
Until BLM steps up with a “say their name” protest for every black homicide victim, they are just as full of shit as the All Lives asshats.
you sound like a bullet list of republican talking points. wonder why that is.
Wanting BLM to use their platform to talk about ALL black deaths and not just those killed by white cops is a Republican talking point? 🤔
Here’s another good example, take homicides out of the equation:
Black people (and more specifically black women) are discounted by medical professionals, resulting in worse outcomes and higher death rates:
https://www.kff.org/racial-equity-and-health-policy/five-facts-about-black-womens-experiences-in-health-care/
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hestat/maternal-mortality/2022/maternal-mortality-rates-2022.htm
“In 2022, the maternal mortality rate for Black women was 49.5 deaths per 100,000 live births and was significantly higher than rates for White (19.0), Hispanic (16.9), and Asian (13.2) women.”
BLM? Silence. More black women die in childbirth each year than anyone killed by cops. Do they think black lives matter or don’t they?
Shouldn’t they be raising awareness on this? Shit, why do I have to be the one telling you this, shouldn’t this be common knowledge for everyone?
Right, that was just an example of things anyone with a couple friends could do locally that would still accumulate at scale.
A while ago people were going to banks with rolls of pennies and depositing them I to their accounts one by one.