It’s educate, AGITATE, organize
edit: putting this at the top so people understand the basis for this:
You may well ask: “Why direct action? Why sit ins, marches and so forth? Isn’t negotiation a better path?” You are quite right in calling for negotiation. Indeed, this is the very purpose of direct action. Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. It seeks so to dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored. My citing the creation of tension as part of the work of the nonviolent resister may sound rather shocking. But I must confess that I am not afraid of the word “tension.” I have earnestly opposed violent tension, but there is a type of constructive, nonviolent tension which is necessary for growth. Just as Socrates felt that it was necessary to create a tension in the mind so that individuals could rise from the bondage of myths and half truths to the unfettered realm of creative analysis and objective appraisal, so must we see the need for nonviolent gadflies to create the kind of tension in society that will help men rise from the dark depths of prejudice and racism to the majestic heights of understanding and brotherhood.
I don’t want to burn any goodwill we might have built here, so I’m not going to pick out the few things here I disagree with just to keep it going.
I basically believe that Biden can’t win with this position, and agitating him to change it is the only thing I can do from where I am to fix that. I hope I’m wrong.
Biden isn’t guaranteed a win regardless of what position he takes on the current genocide, so while I support the pro-Palestine protests, I am adamantly against anyone who wants to use withholding their vote as a ‘threat’ to Biden, which is tantamount to saying “Change your policy to my preferred policy, or I let the fascists win”, which is kind of antithetical to the idea of a coalition candidate.