...Thinking about the Minutemen. How feasible might it be for them to subvert the various state militias and national guard, leveraging their more military origins to form inroads into those groups. And overall switching into more support roles, both through tacticians and strategists produced by their think-tanks, and a few, highly skilled differently trained elites for more special forces type operations...
The American Experiment (Riot Quest)
- Thread starter Physici
- Start date
- Alt. History
- Location
- Lake Wobegon
- Pronouns
- He/Him/His
Given what a militia is, I would expect MIN's adult male members to be members of various state militias by default. How much time they devote to soldiering, and whether they're officers, well, that's another thing entirely.
Solarstream
It's all in the cards
- Location
- Zombie World
- Pronouns
- He/Him
[X][TFAM] Plan How Many Times Do We Have To Teach You This Lesson, Old Man?
- Location
- Lake Wobegon
- Pronouns
- He/Him/His
Yes, well, at least it isn't the AFofL.
Suquamish in Seattle
Suquamish in Seattle
My father says the white men had promised us more than just the scraps of land around the winter village I was born in. He says they promised us the right to hunt in the woods and fish in the rivers, and fair compensation for what was taken from us. But whenever I and my brothers tried to hunt, we were chased off by men with dogs and guns. Wherever we tried to fish, we found the waters poisoned and foul. And no compensation ever came, not even when the harvests failed and we had nothing to sell to buy fuel or clothing. For twelve years, I have watched my father struggle to claw a living from this meager slice of barren land. Our kind could not help us, for they struggled as badly as we did.
Year by year, his cheeks sunk, his hair lost its luster, and his eyes dimmed.
And then one year, three strange men came to us. One wore a fine suit and looked nervous. He sweated as he spoke. The other two reminded me of bears and carried guns. They had cruel faces.
I do not know what my father discussed with them. He sent everyone out while he spoke with them. When he called us back, he had a few coins in his hand, and what little furniture we had was cracked and broken. He told us to pack, and then we left.
There was much we could not take with us. Some things we buried, others we brought to neighbors. When my mother took two of her baskets, filled them with the brightly-colored Salish blankets, and gave them to the families on the next farms, I thought her heart might break. She had made those baskets with us, weaving the cedar roots so tightly that water could not slip between them, dying each stalk a different color, and she had woven the blankets with us, weaving goat wool and goose down together to make the cloth soft and warm.
And then we began to walk to Seattle, where my father thought we could find work. It was a long walk, and the soles of our shoes were worn thin by the time the first day ended. We found no shelter except for what we made. Farmers would brandish rifles at us to make sure we stayed away, and innkeepers refused our custom. They wouldn't even let us bed down in stables.
Eventually, we staggered into the city. My father spent the precious coins he had sold our farm for on a narrow room with a single, vermin-infested cot. The walls were thin enough that we could hear people shouting and fucking, and the room stank of mold and whiskey. We had nothing to eat that night, for all we had was spent on this miserable place. I could not sleep and simply lay in between my brothers, weeping silently, and pretending not to notice that they wept as well.
Eventually, the sun rose and we scattered. My mother and father went to look for work, while we were told to mind the room. My mother came back after a few hours, nursing a swollen cheek.
My father did not come back until after the sun set. His hair was chopped short, his back stooped. But in his hand he had coins - dimes and nickels, but it was enough to buy us a meal.
Every night on the farm, even on the longest days of harvest or the coldest nights of winter, there were stories and conversations around the dinner table.
But sitting on the dingy step of the flophouse, peering out at darkness as we ate cold, greasy pastries, none of us found ourselves able to say a word.
+5 for the ACUA's Seattle unionization action.
My father says the white men had promised us more than just the scraps of land around the winter village I was born in. He says they promised us the right to hunt in the woods and fish in the rivers, and fair compensation for what was taken from us. But whenever I and my brothers tried to hunt, we were chased off by men with dogs and guns. Wherever we tried to fish, we found the waters poisoned and foul. And no compensation ever came, not even when the harvests failed and we had nothing to sell to buy fuel or clothing. For twelve years, I have watched my father struggle to claw a living from this meager slice of barren land. Our kind could not help us, for they struggled as badly as we did.
Year by year, his cheeks sunk, his hair lost its luster, and his eyes dimmed.
And then one year, three strange men came to us. One wore a fine suit and looked nervous. He sweated as he spoke. The other two reminded me of bears and carried guns. They had cruel faces.
I do not know what my father discussed with them. He sent everyone out while he spoke with them. When he called us back, he had a few coins in his hand, and what little furniture we had was cracked and broken. He told us to pack, and then we left.
There was much we could not take with us. Some things we buried, others we brought to neighbors. When my mother took two of her baskets, filled them with the brightly-colored Salish blankets, and gave them to the families on the next farms, I thought her heart might break. She had made those baskets with us, weaving the cedar roots so tightly that water could not slip between them, dying each stalk a different color, and she had woven the blankets with us, weaving goat wool and goose down together to make the cloth soft and warm.
And then we began to walk to Seattle, where my father thought we could find work. It was a long walk, and the soles of our shoes were worn thin by the time the first day ended. We found no shelter except for what we made. Farmers would brandish rifles at us to make sure we stayed away, and innkeepers refused our custom. They wouldn't even let us bed down in stables.
Eventually, we staggered into the city. My father spent the precious coins he had sold our farm for on a narrow room with a single, vermin-infested cot. The walls were thin enough that we could hear people shouting and fucking, and the room stank of mold and whiskey. We had nothing to eat that night, for all we had was spent on this miserable place. I could not sleep and simply lay in between my brothers, weeping silently, and pretending not to notice that they wept as well.
Eventually, the sun rose and we scattered. My mother and father went to look for work, while we were told to mind the room. My mother came back after a few hours, nursing a swollen cheek.
My father did not come back until after the sun set. His hair was chopped short, his back stooped. But in his hand he had coins - dimes and nickels, but it was enough to buy us a meal.
Every night on the farm, even on the longest days of harvest or the coldest nights of winter, there were stories and conversations around the dinner table.
But sitting on the dingy step of the flophouse, peering out at darkness as we ate cold, greasy pastries, none of us found ourselves able to say a word.
+5 for the ACUA's Seattle unionization action.
Godwinson
"Well, I've got nothing."
[X][SUS] Society for Universal Suffrage 1898 Action Plan
-[X] Actively campaign for the Socialist Labor Party. 100 funds.
--[X] Illinois.
-[X] Build a new factory. 25 funds.
--[X] An armaments and munitions factory complex in Chicago, with its products for 'sale' to the SUS.
-[X] Give legal ownership of your industries to loyal individuals who can then run them the same and donate the proceeds to SUS, ensuring the organization doesn't get broken up by the Anti-Trust Act.
--[X] Assign legal-ownership of those industries to Walpurga Voight.
-[X] Found new gay bars in various Great Lake cities as safe places for queer people. 25 funds.
-[X] Kick out the Cleveland branch for being reformist and revisionist, and make more regulations on joining the fast-growing organization to maintain ideological unity.
--[X] With the reorganization of mutual-aid networks to being United Front wide and under the management of the RFAA, this is a good time to formally shuffle them out of the SUS.
-[X] Work with the RFAA and locals of the language federations to set up branches in their Great Lake states (Pennsylvania and NYC), allowing for non-anarchist socialists there to join an organization they can follow the ideological line better.
-[X] Write-in: Work with United Front organizations across the country to arrange for union jobs and good housing for any strikebreakers brought in against any UF-affiliated strike, to undermine efforts to use bigotry and desperation to turn the working class against itself. 100 funds.
-[X] Contribute extra funds to the United Front:
--[X] 30 funds earmarked for the ACUA steel belt unionizing action.
--[X] 23 funds for electoral efforts.
--[X] 10 funds to the FAM.
-[X] WELFARE ACTION: Set up daycare facilities near working districts in Chicago so that women can drop off their children and then go to work. 25 funds, -5 per turn.
-[X] POLICY ACTION: Deploy the Illinois state militia to "prevent violence between strikers and strikebreakers in southern Illinois" (read: to harden the picket lines and maybe lose a few rifles off the back of a wagon)
-[X][UF] Budget Jinshan, Yinshan
-[X][UF] Write-in: Support either or both of the ACUA's and FAM's requirements for fusion with the Populists.
-[X][UF] Reorganize the mutual aid networks so they are managed by the RFAA in recognition that most are already largely run by anarchists, giving a mandate to the RFAA to become more of a national level organization.
-[X][UF] Vote against the Newlands Resolution to annex the Republic of Hawaii.
-[X][UF] Vote against the Curtis Act.
-[X] Actively campaign for the Socialist Labor Party. 100 funds.
--[X] Illinois.
-[X] Build a new factory. 25 funds.
--[X] An armaments and munitions factory complex in Chicago, with its products for 'sale' to the SUS.
-[X] Give legal ownership of your industries to loyal individuals who can then run them the same and donate the proceeds to SUS, ensuring the organization doesn't get broken up by the Anti-Trust Act.
--[X] Assign legal-ownership of those industries to Walpurga Voight.
-[X] Found new gay bars in various Great Lake cities as safe places for queer people. 25 funds.
-[X] Kick out the Cleveland branch for being reformist and revisionist, and make more regulations on joining the fast-growing organization to maintain ideological unity.
--[X] With the reorganization of mutual-aid networks to being United Front wide and under the management of the RFAA, this is a good time to formally shuffle them out of the SUS.
-[X] Work with the RFAA and locals of the language federations to set up branches in their Great Lake states (Pennsylvania and NYC), allowing for non-anarchist socialists there to join an organization they can follow the ideological line better.
-[X] Write-in: Work with United Front organizations across the country to arrange for union jobs and good housing for any strikebreakers brought in against any UF-affiliated strike, to undermine efforts to use bigotry and desperation to turn the working class against itself. 100 funds.
-[X] Contribute extra funds to the United Front:
--[X] 30 funds earmarked for the ACUA steel belt unionizing action.
--[X] 23 funds for electoral efforts.
--[X] 10 funds to the FAM.
-[X] WELFARE ACTION: Set up daycare facilities near working districts in Chicago so that women can drop off their children and then go to work. 25 funds, -5 per turn.
-[X] POLICY ACTION: Deploy the Illinois state militia to "prevent violence between strikers and strikebreakers in southern Illinois" (read: to harden the picket lines and maybe lose a few rifles off the back of a wagon)
-[X][UF] Budget Jinshan, Yinshan
-[X][UF] Write-in: Support either or both of the ACUA's and FAM's requirements for fusion with the Populists.
-[X][UF] Reorganize the mutual aid networks so they are managed by the RFAA in recognition that most are already largely run by anarchists, giving a mandate to the RFAA to become more of a national level organization.
-[X][UF] Vote against the Newlands Resolution to annex the Republic of Hawaii.
-[X][UF] Vote against the Curtis Act.
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[X][RFAA] Plan Additional Actions and Defense Prep
-[X] Acquire Guns. 109 Funds
-[X] Train militia (Community Defense Committees.) 109 cadres, 109 Funds
-[X] Begin formalizing nested councils in a federative structure, the next step in dual power and in replacing the state with anarchist governance. 30 funds, -10 per turn. +1 free action.
-[X] Attempt a takeover of the New York Police Department with the aid of Mayor Hillquit. 100 funds. Warning: There will be consequences, especially if you fail.
-[X] Have armed guards (militia if you have them) standing guard over council meetings. 3 funds, -3 per turn
-[X] Create a separate militia structure from the councils but beholden to them so they may act as a democratically run military force. 5 funds, -5 per turn, +1 militia action.
-[X] Establish networks of organizers and methods of travel for establishing mutual aid networks, gathering from RFAA experience as well as FHM's former welfare committee and SUS' former welfare management. 5 funds, -5 per turn, +1 welfare action, +5 to welfare actions.
-[X] Accept Amigos Del Pueblo's proposal (free action).
-[X][UF] Budget Jinshan, Yinshan
-[X][UF] Do not run a joint ticket with the Populists. (free action).
-[X][UF] Reorganize the mutual aid networks so they are managed by the RFAA in recognition that most are already largely run by anarchists, giving a mandate to the RFAA to become more of a national level organization. (free action).
-[X][UF] Vote against the Newlands Resolution to annex the Republic of Hawaii.
-[X][UF] Vote against the Curtis Act.
I am, very simply, not at all satisfied with raising a piddly 20 funds worth of militia. We need more and we should take the actions to get us more.
-[X] Acquire Guns. 109 Funds
-[X] Train militia (Community Defense Committees.) 109 cadres, 109 Funds
-[X] Begin formalizing nested councils in a federative structure, the next step in dual power and in replacing the state with anarchist governance. 30 funds, -10 per turn. +1 free action.
-[X] Attempt a takeover of the New York Police Department with the aid of Mayor Hillquit. 100 funds. Warning: There will be consequences, especially if you fail.
-[X] Have armed guards (militia if you have them) standing guard over council meetings. 3 funds, -3 per turn
-[X] Create a separate militia structure from the councils but beholden to them so they may act as a democratically run military force. 5 funds, -5 per turn, +1 militia action.
-[X] Establish networks of organizers and methods of travel for establishing mutual aid networks, gathering from RFAA experience as well as FHM's former welfare committee and SUS' former welfare management. 5 funds, -5 per turn, +1 welfare action, +5 to welfare actions.
-[X] Accept Amigos Del Pueblo's proposal (free action).
-[X][UF] Budget Jinshan, Yinshan
-[X][UF] Do not run a joint ticket with the Populists. (free action).
-[X][UF] Reorganize the mutual aid networks so they are managed by the RFAA in recognition that most are already largely run by anarchists, giving a mandate to the RFAA to become more of a national level organization. (free action).
-[X][UF] Vote against the Newlands Resolution to annex the Republic of Hawaii.
-[X][UF] Vote against the Curtis Act.
I am, very simply, not at all satisfied with raising a piddly 20 funds worth of militia. We need more and we should take the actions to get us more.
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KnightDisciple
Brotherhood. Unity. Peace.
- Location
- Midwest, USA
If y'all don't want the folks in Cleveland because they're "impure", we can take care of your lost sheep. 😇😇😇
Time and Peace
Magoose
SV's Questing Fanatic
- Location
- California USA
- Pronouns
- He
Time and Peace:
(Art Randolph POV)
You did not feel anything when you were called into the office. In fact, you felt nothing at all. Perhaps it was for the simple fact that many things had happened right now to make things worse in your mind. The world going mad it seemed, and all it felt like was… nothing. Nothing at all.
It was like standing out in the open wilderness, knowing you were going to die. Yet now it was a scene that filled your heart with shame. All that time you tried to show him just how much you changed. To be better than what you once were.
But old habits died hard. Or as an old friend would say… Evil always needs one victory. Good would always need to be vigilant or fall.
Your best friend is angry at you. Eyes filled, not with shame, and anger, but with disappointment. He was trying so hard to not show just how broken it felt for him. How terrible it felt.
"Jack." He said his friend's name almost silently, but instead of allowing him to speak, Jack slammed his hand down on the time.
"Art… What the fuck is wrong with you?" It was rare to hear Jack swear with such venom, any that heard him swear, knew it was mere playfulness, a way to make fun of the political craziness of stiff upper lips and changed tones. Or as he called it, upper-class speak.
He knew. He knew, and he hated it. "I heard that you were trying to turn funds towards weaponry. Buying rifles, trucks, and machining tools."
"Jack, I can explain-"
"Shut up!" He shouted, anger boiling over. You had never seen him this angry before, but only because there was so much you had done wrong. So much you had done to hide from him. It was like protecting a child who did not understand or wish to understand the world. You protecting him, probably against your own best judgment. "We are not like them!? All those violent people who think that things can only change through the barrel of a gun. We can show them that this Experiment of governance, of economics, of people, can work."
Yet in your eyes, you wanted to believe him. It was like a foolish dream that you had, where people could get together and make a change. To make things better through action, not violence. But the experience of life and loss taught you differently.
Everything in the world revolved around violence, pain, and suffering. Suffering you tried so hard to no inflict on others.
"Jack." You said his name bitterly, trying your best to try and not to snap, to tell him how wrong and foolish it would be to think like that. To think so naively about how the world really works. But even now, you couldn't say such words. Not until he would be forced to see it.
But right now, things were going well. Things, were tense, yes, things were getting violent.
But right now… things were not going to be destroyed. Not yet. Even if it felt like a storm brewing on the horizon.
You instead took a breath and realized just what it would be. "You may not be willing to kill for this dream. But I am not going to let you die for this without putting up a fight."
As if Jack needed any more guilt on his conscious.
"Get out." He demanded.
And you did.
But you would just have to make things better, so he could be right.
Or hope that things got worse, and you could prove him wrong.
You only hoped to god that you wouldn't have to prove him wrong.
AN: @Physici
An omake for the LLRP's Electoral... success. in the Dakota if possible.
So... Yeah, this was based upon an argument me and Cyber had about the possible direction to take the Party... After the clusterfuck of whats going on down south.
Yeah, can be persuaded to some politicking if you all ask me to do something cool, like say write an omake to fuck over the white league.
(Art Randolph POV)
You did not feel anything when you were called into the office. In fact, you felt nothing at all. Perhaps it was for the simple fact that many things had happened right now to make things worse in your mind. The world going mad it seemed, and all it felt like was… nothing. Nothing at all.
It was like standing out in the open wilderness, knowing you were going to die. Yet now it was a scene that filled your heart with shame. All that time you tried to show him just how much you changed. To be better than what you once were.
But old habits died hard. Or as an old friend would say… Evil always needs one victory. Good would always need to be vigilant or fall.
Your best friend is angry at you. Eyes filled, not with shame, and anger, but with disappointment. He was trying so hard to not show just how broken it felt for him. How terrible it felt.
"Jack." He said his friend's name almost silently, but instead of allowing him to speak, Jack slammed his hand down on the time.
"Art… What the fuck is wrong with you?" It was rare to hear Jack swear with such venom, any that heard him swear, knew it was mere playfulness, a way to make fun of the political craziness of stiff upper lips and changed tones. Or as he called it, upper-class speak.
He knew. He knew, and he hated it. "I heard that you were trying to turn funds towards weaponry. Buying rifles, trucks, and machining tools."
"Jack, I can explain-"
"Shut up!" He shouted, anger boiling over. You had never seen him this angry before, but only because there was so much you had done wrong. So much you had done to hide from him. It was like protecting a child who did not understand or wish to understand the world. You protecting him, probably against your own best judgment. "We are not like them!? All those violent people who think that things can only change through the barrel of a gun. We can show them that this Experiment of governance, of economics, of people, can work."
Yet in your eyes, you wanted to believe him. It was like a foolish dream that you had, where people could get together and make a change. To make things better through action, not violence. But the experience of life and loss taught you differently.
Everything in the world revolved around violence, pain, and suffering. Suffering you tried so hard to no inflict on others.
"Jack." You said his name bitterly, trying your best to try and not to snap, to tell him how wrong and foolish it would be to think like that. To think so naively about how the world really works. But even now, you couldn't say such words. Not until he would be forced to see it.
But right now, things were going well. Things, were tense, yes, things were getting violent.
But right now… things were not going to be destroyed. Not yet. Even if it felt like a storm brewing on the horizon.
You instead took a breath and realized just what it would be. "You may not be willing to kill for this dream. But I am not going to let you die for this without putting up a fight."
As if Jack needed any more guilt on his conscious.
"Get out." He demanded.
And you did.
But you would just have to make things better, so he could be right.
Or hope that things got worse, and you could prove him wrong.
You only hoped to god that you wouldn't have to prove him wrong.
AN: @Physici
An omake for the LLRP's Electoral... success. in the Dakota if possible.
So... Yeah, this was based upon an argument me and Cyber had about the possible direction to take the Party... After the clusterfuck of whats going on down south.
Yeah, can be persuaded to some politicking if you all ask me to do something cool, like say write an omake to fuck over the white league.
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- Location
- United States
- Pronouns
- He/She/They
You could try to do that. It wouldn't be hard for your members to join the national guard/state militia, and in fact some already would be. Getting leadership would take some luck, though.
Canon and accepted.
Canon and accepted.
[X] [TFHM] Wait To Take The Enemy Unprepared
-[X] Help organize the rest of the Chinese workers into unions who can, such as restaurant workers. 3 funds. 488/500
-[X] With the help of local anarchist councils and Mayor Hillquit, try to push out and replace the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association's semi-government role in New York's Chinatown by connecting with the community as equals rather than businessmen like them.
-[X] Prepare covertly the rails themselves to be able to quickly shut them down, preventing all travel across the rockies. Has a chance of discovery. 50 funds, 563/2000
-[X] Stockpile guns. 40 funds.
-[X] Send in saboteurs to local Nationalist Citizens' Alliance groups to cause conflict and break them up. 3 funds.
-[X] Train militia. 20 cadres.
-[X] Give legal ownership of your industries to independent cooperatives who can then run them the same and donate the proceeds to the FHM, ensuring the organization doesn't get broken up by the Anti-Trust Act.
-[X] Set up mutual aid groups in Victoria's Chinatown as well as other British Columbia cities. 6 funds, -3 per turn. Uses 0.5 actions
-[X] Set up mutual aid groups in Portland, Oregon, and other nearby places. 2 funds, -1 per turn. Uses 0.5 actions
-[X] Store 10 funds for later use in aiding Sun Yat-Sen's revolutionary activities. Current: 41 funds (free action)
-[x][UF] Budget Jinshan, Yinshan
-[X][UF] Write-in: Run a joint ticket with the Populists, whichever party is clearly larger choosing the candidate in those states and others agreeing on a candidate - but the candidate must agree to adhere to the SLP program and agree to resign their office on the request of the SLP for failing to adhere to its program.
-[x][UF] Reorganize the mutual aid networks so they are managed by the RFAA in recognition that most are already largely run by anarchists, giving a mandate to the RFAA to become more of a national level organization.
Now that we've got a concrete enemy that could retaliate for the rail actions (that isn't the Feds getting angry at us), we need to take a few precautions. Going full balls to the wall with the assassinations and crackdowns is a bit too brazen, but we need to start establishing a militia that can protect us from the Nationalists if they wish to single us out in a Yellow Peril. Not sure about any UF plans so I'll just copy paste what the other UFs already had.
[X] [TFHM] Wait To Take The Enemy Unprepared 2
-[X] Help organize the rest of the Chinese workers into unions who can, such as restaurant workers. 3 funds. 488/500
-[X] With the help of local anarchist councils and Mayor Hillquit, try to push out and replace the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association's semi-government role in New York's Chinatown by connecting with the community as equals rather than businessmen like them.
-[X] Prepare covertly the rails themselves to be able to quickly shut them down, preventing all travel across the rockies. Has a chance of discovery. 40 funds, 563/2000
-[X] Stockpile guns. 40 funds.
-[X] Actively campaign for the Socialist Labor Party. 23 funds.
--[X] California
-[X] Train militia. 20 cadres.
-[X] Give legal ownership of your industries to independent cooperatives who can then run them the same and donate the proceeds to the FHM, ensuring the organization doesn't get broken up by the Anti-Trust Act.
-[X] Set up mutual aid groups in Victoria's Chinatown as well as other British Columbia cities. 6 funds, -3 per turn. Uses 0.5 actions
-[X] Set up mutual aid groups in Portland, Oregon, and other nearby places. 2 funds, -1 per turn. Uses 0.5 actions
-[x][UF] Budget Jinshan, Yinshan
-[X][UF] Write-in: Run a joint ticket with the Populists, whichever party is clearly larger choosing the candidate in those states and others agreeing on a candidate - but the candidate must agree to adhere to the SLP program and agree to resign their office on the request of the SLP for failing to adhere to its program.
-[x][UF] Reorganize the mutual aid networks so they are managed by the RFAA in recognition that most are already largely run by anarchists, giving a mandate to the RFAA to become more of a national level organization.
V2 gets rid of funds for Sun, some from the Rail Action, and the entire saboteur action in order to campaign for the SLP in California.
-[X] Help organize the rest of the Chinese workers into unions who can, such as restaurant workers. 3 funds. 488/500
-[X] With the help of local anarchist councils and Mayor Hillquit, try to push out and replace the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association's semi-government role in New York's Chinatown by connecting with the community as equals rather than businessmen like them.
-[X] Prepare covertly the rails themselves to be able to quickly shut them down, preventing all travel across the rockies. Has a chance of discovery. 50 funds, 563/2000
-[X] Stockpile guns. 40 funds.
-[X] Send in saboteurs to local Nationalist Citizens' Alliance groups to cause conflict and break them up. 3 funds.
-[X] Train militia. 20 cadres.
-[X] Give legal ownership of your industries to independent cooperatives who can then run them the same and donate the proceeds to the FHM, ensuring the organization doesn't get broken up by the Anti-Trust Act.
-[X] Set up mutual aid groups in Victoria's Chinatown as well as other British Columbia cities. 6 funds, -3 per turn. Uses 0.5 actions
-[X] Set up mutual aid groups in Portland, Oregon, and other nearby places. 2 funds, -1 per turn. Uses 0.5 actions
-[X] Store 10 funds for later use in aiding Sun Yat-Sen's revolutionary activities. Current: 41 funds (free action)
-[x][UF] Budget Jinshan, Yinshan
-[X][UF] Write-in: Run a joint ticket with the Populists, whichever party is clearly larger choosing the candidate in those states and others agreeing on a candidate - but the candidate must agree to adhere to the SLP program and agree to resign their office on the request of the SLP for failing to adhere to its program.
-[x][UF] Reorganize the mutual aid networks so they are managed by the RFAA in recognition that most are already largely run by anarchists, giving a mandate to the RFAA to become more of a national level organization.
Now that we've got a concrete enemy that could retaliate for the rail actions (that isn't the Feds getting angry at us), we need to take a few precautions. Going full balls to the wall with the assassinations and crackdowns is a bit too brazen, but we need to start establishing a militia that can protect us from the Nationalists if they wish to single us out in a Yellow Peril. Not sure about any UF plans so I'll just copy paste what the other UFs already had.
[X] [TFHM] Wait To Take The Enemy Unprepared 2
-[X] Help organize the rest of the Chinese workers into unions who can, such as restaurant workers. 3 funds. 488/500
-[X] With the help of local anarchist councils and Mayor Hillquit, try to push out and replace the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association's semi-government role in New York's Chinatown by connecting with the community as equals rather than businessmen like them.
-[X] Prepare covertly the rails themselves to be able to quickly shut them down, preventing all travel across the rockies. Has a chance of discovery. 40 funds, 563/2000
-[X] Stockpile guns. 40 funds.
-[X] Actively campaign for the Socialist Labor Party. 23 funds.
--[X] California
-[X] Train militia. 20 cadres.
-[X] Give legal ownership of your industries to independent cooperatives who can then run them the same and donate the proceeds to the FHM, ensuring the organization doesn't get broken up by the Anti-Trust Act.
-[X] Set up mutual aid groups in Victoria's Chinatown as well as other British Columbia cities. 6 funds, -3 per turn. Uses 0.5 actions
-[X] Set up mutual aid groups in Portland, Oregon, and other nearby places. 2 funds, -1 per turn. Uses 0.5 actions
-[x][UF] Budget Jinshan, Yinshan
-[X][UF] Write-in: Run a joint ticket with the Populists, whichever party is clearly larger choosing the candidate in those states and others agreeing on a candidate - but the candidate must agree to adhere to the SLP program and agree to resign their office on the request of the SLP for failing to adhere to its program.
-[x][UF] Reorganize the mutual aid networks so they are managed by the RFAA in recognition that most are already largely run by anarchists, giving a mandate to the RFAA to become more of a national level organization.
V2 gets rid of funds for Sun, some from the Rail Action, and the entire saboteur action in order to campaign for the SLP in California.
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- He/Him
[X] [TFHM] The Bear and the Moose
-[X] Actively campaign for the Socialist Labor Party. 50 funds.
--[X] California
-[X] Help organize the rest of the Chinese workers into unions who can, such as restaurant workers. 5 funds. 488/500
-[X] With the help of local anarchist councils and Mayor Hillquit, try to push out and replace the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association's semi-government role in New York's Chinatown by connecting with the community as equals rather than businessmen like them.
-[X] Send in saboteurs to local Nationalist Citizens' Alliance groups to cause conflict and break them up. 3 funds.
-[X] Prepare covertly the rails themselves to be able to quickly shut them down, preventing all travel across the rockies. Has a chance of discovery. 40 funds, 563/2000
-[X] Store funds for later use in aiding Sun Yat-Sen's revolutionary activities. 18 funds, Current: 41 funds (free action)
-[X] Give legal ownership of your industries to independent cooperatives who can then run them the same and donate the proceeds to the FHM, ensuring the organization doesn't get broken up by the Anti-Trust Act.
-[X] Set up mutual aid groups in Victoria's Chinatown as well as other British Columbia cities. 6 funds, -3 per turn. Uses 0.5 actions
-[X] Set up mutual aid groups in Portland, Oregon, and other nearby places. 2 funds, -1 per turn. Uses 0.5 actions
-[X] Establish a fund for paying the head tax on Chinese immigrants to Canada, and then help them integrate into local communities. 10 funds, -10 per turn.
-[x][UF] Budget Jinshan, Yinshan
-[X][UF] Write-in: Support either or both of the ACUA's and FAM's requirements for fusion with the Populists.
-[x][UF] Reorganize the mutual aid networks so they are managed by the RFAA in recognition that most are already largely run by anarchists, giving a mandate to the RFAA to become more of a national level organization.
-[X] Vote against the Newlands Resolution to annex the Republic of Hawaii.
-[X] Vote against the Curtis Act.
This is a gubernatorial election year for California, which makes it a very enticing opportunity to try and get a governor and state house elected that isn't heavily racist towards the Chinese. The rails will continue to be prepared at the same pace with the same amount of money with the hope that consistency here minimizes chance of discovery. Elsewhere some saboteurs will head out to disrupt this newly established NCA. Finally some mutual aid and a fund for the head tax is established to help the Chinese Canadians.
-[X] Actively campaign for the Socialist Labor Party. 50 funds.
--[X] California
-[X] Help organize the rest of the Chinese workers into unions who can, such as restaurant workers. 5 funds. 488/500
-[X] With the help of local anarchist councils and Mayor Hillquit, try to push out and replace the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association's semi-government role in New York's Chinatown by connecting with the community as equals rather than businessmen like them.
-[X] Send in saboteurs to local Nationalist Citizens' Alliance groups to cause conflict and break them up. 3 funds.
-[X] Prepare covertly the rails themselves to be able to quickly shut them down, preventing all travel across the rockies. Has a chance of discovery. 40 funds, 563/2000
-[X] Store funds for later use in aiding Sun Yat-Sen's revolutionary activities. 18 funds, Current: 41 funds (free action)
-[X] Give legal ownership of your industries to independent cooperatives who can then run them the same and donate the proceeds to the FHM, ensuring the organization doesn't get broken up by the Anti-Trust Act.
-[X] Set up mutual aid groups in Victoria's Chinatown as well as other British Columbia cities. 6 funds, -3 per turn. Uses 0.5 actions
-[X] Set up mutual aid groups in Portland, Oregon, and other nearby places. 2 funds, -1 per turn. Uses 0.5 actions
-[X] Establish a fund for paying the head tax on Chinese immigrants to Canada, and then help them integrate into local communities. 10 funds, -10 per turn.
-[x][UF] Budget Jinshan, Yinshan
-[X][UF] Write-in: Support either or both of the ACUA's and FAM's requirements for fusion with the Populists.
-[x][UF] Reorganize the mutual aid networks so they are managed by the RFAA in recognition that most are already largely run by anarchists, giving a mandate to the RFAA to become more of a national level organization.
-[X] Vote against the Newlands Resolution to annex the Republic of Hawaii.
-[X] Vote against the Curtis Act.
This is a gubernatorial election year for California, which makes it a very enticing opportunity to try and get a governor and state house elected that isn't heavily racist towards the Chinese. The rails will continue to be prepared at the same pace with the same amount of money with the hope that consistency here minimizes chance of discovery. Elsewhere some saboteurs will head out to disrupt this newly established NCA. Finally some mutual aid and a fund for the head tax is established to help the Chinese Canadians.
DracoDracul
Transbian Communist
- Location
- Austin
- Pronouns
- She/They
I should note that if you wanted you could raise 129 funds worth of militia as there are already 200 units of guns stockpiled.
Chimeraguard
We do deserve to exist.
Better to keep something of a Stockpile in case we need it later.
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- She/Her
[X][SUS] Society for Universal Suffrage 1898 Action Plan
Hadn't voted yet since i was still catching up, but u convinced me otherwise ❤️❤️
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- Location
- Somewhere
[X] [TFHM] Wait To Take The Enemy Unprepared 2
KnightDisciple
Brotherhood. Unity. Peace.
- Location
- Midwest, USA
I'm highly amused that the terrible sin committed by the Cleveland branch of SUS was working with the Orange Disciples.
Who helped push through Women's Suffrage in Ohio.
So yeah, if SUS voters really do want to kick them out, that's your decision, but don't get pissed if someone else tells them "hey folks, it's okay, if they don't want you, you're still welcome with us".
Who helped push through Women's Suffrage in Ohio.
So yeah, if SUS voters really do want to kick them out, that's your decision, but don't get pissed if someone else tells them "hey folks, it's okay, if they don't want you, you're still welcome with us".
I mostly find it amusing that "The Society for Universal Suffrage" is kicking people out for being more pro-suffrage than pro-socialism.
- Location
- Lake Wobegon
- Pronouns
- He/Him/His
Universal suffrage is, at best, a weapon in the fight for socialism. Not least because franchises can contract as well as expand - look at Louisiana.
Magoose
SV's Questing Fanatic
- Location
- California USA
- Pronouns
- He
Where Magoose Rambles about California History Far too Much because of to much anger.
I am about to ramble on California history, most particularly, an event that holds very close to my heart, so forgive me, It's a subject I hold very dear to my heart, seeing as its been my family's home since... a little more than ten generations now, and were directly affected by this epidemic. I'll need to double-check, anyway.
I do know one my ancestors were murdered for hiring Black men to work one of his businesses because he was friends with a few of them, and he actually paid them the same wage as a white man. (Though to be honest that one might just be a rumor)
As a Californian, it means a lot to me, seeing as it's one of the most significant failings of the California State government since... The next great failing of the California State government that people will point to. We have quite a lot of those. Don't worry, we'll get to them.
Anyway, California is about to suffer a devastating outbreak of the Bubonic plague in San Francisco. Funny story, the Governor of that time, A Henry Gage, will use it to prompt anti-immigrant/Anti-Chinese legislation, and even force many into the famous San Francisco Chinatown Ghetto, where many of the cases were reported. In fact, the city made absolutely no effort to stop the disease from spreading across the local population, as the mayor of the city (one James Duval Phelan, who literally wrote several extensions to the Chinese and Japanese exclusion and other anti-immigration acts within The United States, during his time in the Senate, but that is neither here nor there yet, as he is just a mayor at that point) literally called the Chinese immigrants, a "Constant menace to Public health" And decided that the only way to prevent the disease from spreading was to quarantine Chinatown... and Violating their 14th amendment rights.
Anywho, with lives at stake, Gage and Phelan got into a pissing contest over who should pay for what, and how many resources would be used by the state and city government, and then just outright ignored.
Literally, they just swept the entire plague outbreak under the rug, as if nothing happened, and hundreds of people died or got infected, as well as the government using it to crack down on civil liberties out of fear and a need to win over support for the next election with a great victory over nature.
(God bless America for giving us such a fine specimen of politicians
)
I don't know why I wrote this, maybe just showing that just because racists be shooting people with guns, doesn't mean there are other methods.
Like Blatant Stupidity. Or money. Or Apathy...
Or some Bizzaro combination from the hell of the three.
(Sweet Jesus, I might just pull out my old paper of the response of the 1906 earthquake just to make myself feel bad)
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The reason I hate this entire thing... and hold it so close to my darn heart.
A public health emergency, which had the capability and the lethality to spread and kill tens of thousands of people... just got swept under the rug and people died because people didn't care.
(God dammit, I made myself sad.)
Edit:
Sorry for pulling this off, but I just really wanted to make sure this tragedy that befell my home does not have the same fate befall it.
Really its just hits far to close to home right now considering all we've been through these last few years.
Edit: Fixed a few of my mistakes.
I am about to ramble on California history, most particularly, an event that holds very close to my heart, so forgive me, It's a subject I hold very dear to my heart, seeing as its been my family's home since... a little more than ten generations now, and were directly affected by this epidemic. I'll need to double-check, anyway.
I do know one my ancestors were murdered for hiring Black men to work one of his businesses because he was friends with a few of them, and he actually paid them the same wage as a white man. (Though to be honest that one might just be a rumor)
As a Californian, it means a lot to me, seeing as it's one of the most significant failings of the California State government since... The next great failing of the California State government that people will point to. We have quite a lot of those. Don't worry, we'll get to them.
Anyway, California is about to suffer a devastating outbreak of the Bubonic plague in San Francisco. Funny story, the Governor of that time, A Henry Gage, will use it to prompt anti-immigrant/Anti-Chinese legislation, and even force many into the famous San Francisco Chinatown Ghetto, where many of the cases were reported. In fact, the city made absolutely no effort to stop the disease from spreading across the local population, as the mayor of the city (one James Duval Phelan, who literally wrote several extensions to the Chinese and Japanese exclusion and other anti-immigration acts within The United States, during his time in the Senate, but that is neither here nor there yet, as he is just a mayor at that point) literally called the Chinese immigrants, a "Constant menace to Public health" And decided that the only way to prevent the disease from spreading was to quarantine Chinatown... and Violating their 14th amendment rights.
AN: I hope I quoted that right.Brian Dean Abramson said:
Anywho, with lives at stake, Gage and Phelan got into a pissing contest over who should pay for what, and how many resources would be used by the state and city government, and then just outright ignored.
Literally, they just swept the entire plague outbreak under the rug, as if nothing happened, and hundreds of people died or got infected, as well as the government using it to crack down on civil liberties out of fear and a need to win over support for the next election with a great victory over nature.
(God bless America for giving us such a fine specimen of politicians
)I don't know why I wrote this, maybe just showing that just because racists be shooting people with guns, doesn't mean there are other methods.
Like Blatant Stupidity. Or money. Or Apathy...
Or some Bizzaro combination from the hell of the three.
(Sweet Jesus, I might just pull out my old paper of the response of the 1906 earthquake just to make myself feel bad)
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The reason I hate this entire thing... and hold it so close to my darn heart.
A public health emergency, which had the capability and the lethality to spread and kill tens of thousands of people... just got swept under the rug and people died because people didn't care.
(God dammit, I made myself sad.)
Edit:
Sorry for pulling this off, but I just really wanted to make sure this tragedy that befell my home does not have the same fate befall it.
Really its just hits far to close to home right now considering all we've been through these last few years.
Edit: Fixed a few of my mistakes.
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And yet, the group's name is advertising as pushing for suffrage, not socialism.
I could say I find the dichotomy...
sus *flees ahead of a hail of rotten vegetables*Edit: did I extend this just to be able to make a bad pun... well, not entirely, but a lot, yes.
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- Location
- Lake Wobegon
- Pronouns
- He/Him/His
One might think affiliating to the Second International [Workingmen's Association] was a sufficient statement of one's political orientation. Alas, it seems not to be so, and that we must enforce the "[country] Section of the Workers' International" scheme the French have going to make the necessary impression.And yet, the group's name is advertising as pushing for suffrage, not socialism.
I could say I find the dichotomy...sus
Magoose
SV's Questing Fanatic
- Location
- California USA
- Pronouns
- He
TBF... It still is pretty SUS.
I'm sorry, I'll see myself out.
nachtingale
20. On that "honk, mimimi" type beat everyday.
- Location
- Malaysia
- Pronouns
- He/They
And yet, the group's name is advertising as pushing for suffrage, not socialism.
I could say I find the dichotomy...sus
Edit: did I extend this just to be able to make a bad pun... well, not entirely, but a lot, yes.
"Political freedom and equality, which, according to the theory of liberalism, are expressed in the right to vote, have no meaning except on a basis that excludes inequality of fundamental economic conditions." - Bordiga
The only way to achieve true universal suffrage is through socialism, for what matters when a person has an equal vote when the fundamental power of their vote is inherently imbalanced due to economic status?
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