Over the last decade, powerful protests and rebellions, on the one hand, and the vicious cruelty of those in power, on the other, have laid bare the American nightmare that so many people are subjected to. Police brutality and the police murder of Black and oppressed people continue at epidemic proportions, even after promises of reform and the election of “progressive” district attorneys. Over two million people languish in prisons and jails today after Republican and Democratic administrations spent decades targeting Black and other oppressed people for punishment and imprisonment. Immigrants continue to be exploited in essential jobs, detained and deported, and vilified by a virulent anti-immigrant racism. American patriarchy, whether in the form of Christian fundamentalism, rape culture, or crass objectification, continues to subject women and LGBTQ people to subjugation, discrimination, and violence. And American empire rains down death and destruction on the world in the form of drone strikes and support for oppressive regimes, with the danger of future wars on the horizon.
On top of these and other longstanding injustices, we confront sharpening existential crises. Capitalism-created climate change intensifies hurricanes, floods, and wildfires that destroy homes and lives while threatening the existence of humanity. The oil industry has become the driving force in the United States’ longstanding theft of Indigenous land. Gentrification is displacing working-class people from their homes and destroying Black, Latino, and immigrant neighborhoods. The growing ranks of homeless people are left to fend for themselves, or, worse yet, pushed off the ground they sleep on when it catches the eyes of real estate developers. People are struggling to pay rent, put food on the table, pay off debt and student loans, and get decent healthcare, with the government’s (mis)handling of the COVID-19 pandemic only making these struggles all the more difficult. A massive fascist social base amped up during Trump’s presidency continues to rally in the streets and commit violence in the name of white supremacy. And the warped culture of American social relations continues to give rise to mass shootings, often driven by fascist ideology.
Our starting point for stopping any of these injustices must be to organize sustained and audacious resistance based among the people under attack and uniting all who can be united. It’s only when we dare to struggle that we can win victories and get a taste of our potential collective power. Dare to Struggle is a multinational organization open to anyone who wants to resist and stop injustice no matter who holds political office. We don’t lobby politicians. We don’t use insular activist lingo. We don’t chase social media fame. We don’t seek careers or corporate sponsorship through activism. We’re committed to standing with the people subjected to the horrors of the American nightmare. We go to the neighborhoods facing police brutality, ICE raids, poverty, and evictions, talk to people about the problems they face, and organize people in collective struggle. We know that radical change only happens when people step outside of routine protest or expecting politicians to do it for us and take bold, collective action.
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