The American Experiment (Riot Quest)
- Thread starter Physici
- Start date
- Alt. History
- Location
- United States
- Pronouns
- He/She/They
Be more specific. What kinds of people are joining this contrarian movement? Why are they doing it? What sorts of things are they being contrarian about? Which is to say, who do they tend to target when they're "just being contrarian?" Is this like the Know-nothing Party where most members of the movement don't know their own ideology? Because they still had one, average members just couldn't articulate it.
KnightDisciple
Brotherhood. Unity. Peace.
- Location
- Midwest, USA
[X] The Orange Disciples
-[X] Circumstance of founding: The Orange Disciples have their genesis in the various abolitionist movements in various American churches. Their name is derived from Orange Scott, a founder of the Wesleyan church and a lifelong abolitionist. The Disciples have grown, bringing in members from various denominations who have been consistently speaking against slavery, racism, and (more recently) sexism and the lack of women's suffrage. Other causes have started to be taken up by the Disciples, but despite the ongoing fervor with which they speak up, the movement has firmly set itself as a non-violent group. They seek change, reformation, and transformation, albeit not explicitly seeking to connect to the Great Awakening movements.
-[X] Locale: While seeking nation-wide acceptance, they are currently strongest in New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia, with an eye toward spreading south through Virginia and the Carolinas, before moving out to the Midwest and beyond.
-[X] Core supporters: While by no means hostile to non-Christians, the Orange Disciples movement is grounded in particularly Christian belief and theology. Its membership has Wesleyan, Methodist, Baptist, Catholic, Mennonite, and Moravians, along with small numbers of other scattered denominations. They have a fairly equal mix of men and women in membership (due to their outstated support of women's rights and suffrage), and while still majority white they have a large segment that is a cross-section of other ethnicities, and a stated intention to continue to accept all members of the Church regardless of heritage.
-[X] Ideology: Fundamentally, the Orange Disciples focus on the idea of "speaking for those with little or no voice". Though slavery is now abolished, those who counted themselves as abolitionists now advocate for robust equal rights for African-Americans, Asian-Americans, and all others. As well, women's rights are of major concern for them, and a growing force within the movement. Other areas of concern include labor laws and conditions (both for adults and even more for children), the conditions and treatments of prisoners, and immigrants. The Orange Disciples are, while not completely pacifistic, firmly opposed to the use of violence for their aims. The last couple of decades have shown them that it is difficult but possible to change things. As well, they have a keen understanding that they are not the lawful government, and thus believe there is a great inherent risk in utilizing force, especially lethal force, to enact their goals. They will stand in the path of violence but will never enact or support it themselves.
-[X] Circumstance of founding: The Orange Disciples have their genesis in the various abolitionist movements in various American churches. Their name is derived from Orange Scott, a founder of the Wesleyan church and a lifelong abolitionist. The Disciples have grown, bringing in members from various denominations who have been consistently speaking against slavery, racism, and (more recently) sexism and the lack of women's suffrage. Other causes have started to be taken up by the Disciples, but despite the ongoing fervor with which they speak up, the movement has firmly set itself as a non-violent group. They seek change, reformation, and transformation, albeit not explicitly seeking to connect to the Great Awakening movements.
-[X] Locale: While seeking nation-wide acceptance, they are currently strongest in New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia, with an eye toward spreading south through Virginia and the Carolinas, before moving out to the Midwest and beyond.
-[X] Core supporters: While by no means hostile to non-Christians, the Orange Disciples movement is grounded in particularly Christian belief and theology. Its membership has Wesleyan, Methodist, Baptist, Catholic, Mennonite, and Moravians, along with small numbers of other scattered denominations. They have a fairly equal mix of men and women in membership (due to their outstated support of women's rights and suffrage), and while still majority white they have a large segment that is a cross-section of other ethnicities, and a stated intention to continue to accept all members of the Church regardless of heritage.
-[X] Ideology: Fundamentally, the Orange Disciples focus on the idea of "speaking for those with little or no voice". Though slavery is now abolished, those who counted themselves as abolitionists now advocate for robust equal rights for African-Americans, Asian-Americans, and all others. As well, women's rights are of major concern for them, and a growing force within the movement. Other areas of concern include labor laws and conditions (both for adults and even more for children), the conditions and treatments of prisoners, and immigrants. The Orange Disciples are, while not completely pacifistic, firmly opposed to the use of violence for their aims. The last couple of decades have shown them that it is difficult but possible to change things. As well, they have a keen understanding that they are not the lawful government, and thus believe there is a great inherent risk in utilizing force, especially lethal force, to enact their goals. They will stand in the path of violence but will never enact or support it themselves.
[X] The Orange Disciples
Solarstream
It's all in the cards
- Location
- Zombie World
- Pronouns
- He/Him
[X] The Forty Acres Movement
- Location
- UK
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Contrarians are joining this contrarian movement because they are contrarians... Though I suppose there are also people with more specific agendas who have joined the Society to try and steer it toward the opposition of certain things more than other things. But mostly the Society is just a bunch of Americans being a bunch of Americans.
Anything and everything. If something is happening, especially in the state of New York, it's a safe bet that the New York Contrarians Society is going to be protesting it at some point or another. And again, those people in the Society with more specific agendas are probably going to be trying to nudge it in a certain direction.
I don't really know what the Know-nothing Party is, so I can't be entirely sure whether or not what I've made is like that. Either way, why are you making such a big deal about this? It's just a game. It doesn't have to be 100% realistic.
LuciDreamer
Maliciously Incompetent
- Location
- United States
- Pronouns
- He/Him
[X] The Association of Friends of the Yellow Scarves
-[X] Circumstances of founding: An association that was originally formed by a particularly religious and militant group of Chinese dynamite blasters who demonstrated their displeasure with the working conditions on the First Transcontinental railroad by blowing up their Union Pacific bosses with nitroglycerin, inspiring a series of copycat rebellions across the line even as the National Guard was called in to restore order on the worksite. Now "Yellow Scarves" is a catchall term for a heavily decentralized group who engage in a relationship of mutual assistance to protect each other from what they view as a tyrannical, unjust, and disharmonious United States government. While secretive, many local leaders wear distinctive yellow vests, scarves, bands, or sashes as proof of their allegiance to one another.
-[X] Locale: As the Scarves are a decentralized group, they have no central command nexus. However, they are especially prominent in the city of Sacramento, and are able to exert some power over the West Coast due to their connections to the railroad industry.
-[X] Core Supporters: The Scarves are extremely popular with Chinese and Asian immigrants. However, over the years, they have captured the sympathy of railroad workers, miners, and even disgruntled frontiersmen. In particular, they have infiltrated a significant portion of the Union Pacific rail lines across the West Coast. They also have some tacit supporters among the Mormons of Utah, curiously enough.
-[X] Ideology: The core unifying tenet of the Scarves is their belief in the Way of Harmonious Peace, which can be said to be an application, or perhaps a bastardization, of Taoist principles to industrialized society. In practice, this translates to a kind of religious, militant, anarchist syndicalism. The Friends of the Yellow Scarves maintain webs of discreet cells embedded into major industrial neighborhoods and within the personal servants of rich businessmen. Each of these cells, with only tenuous connections to the whole, pass along information, messages, stolen food and medicine, explosive material, and religious and political doctrine, all through the lens of "Mutual Friendship, under Heaven." While they have no coherent, centralized ideological leader, and no long-term goals, the Friends of the Yellow Scarves have a deep loyalty to each other, and react vengefully against those who would disrupt their Harmonious Peace.
This one is... I'm not sure exactly if this is realistic enough for the purposes of this quest. I feel like "Yellow Turbans but also Red Jennys but also anarcho-syndicalists" might... sliiiightly breach the bounds of suspended disbelief. If the QM finds this unacceptable, I'm happy to change to something more tame... but I did have a lot of fun writing this up, heheh.
-[X] Circumstances of founding: An association that was originally formed by a particularly religious and militant group of Chinese dynamite blasters who demonstrated their displeasure with the working conditions on the First Transcontinental railroad by blowing up their Union Pacific bosses with nitroglycerin, inspiring a series of copycat rebellions across the line even as the National Guard was called in to restore order on the worksite. Now "Yellow Scarves" is a catchall term for a heavily decentralized group who engage in a relationship of mutual assistance to protect each other from what they view as a tyrannical, unjust, and disharmonious United States government. While secretive, many local leaders wear distinctive yellow vests, scarves, bands, or sashes as proof of their allegiance to one another.
-[X] Locale: As the Scarves are a decentralized group, they have no central command nexus. However, they are especially prominent in the city of Sacramento, and are able to exert some power over the West Coast due to their connections to the railroad industry.
-[X] Core Supporters: The Scarves are extremely popular with Chinese and Asian immigrants. However, over the years, they have captured the sympathy of railroad workers, miners, and even disgruntled frontiersmen. In particular, they have infiltrated a significant portion of the Union Pacific rail lines across the West Coast. They also have some tacit supporters among the Mormons of Utah, curiously enough.
-[X] Ideology: The core unifying tenet of the Scarves is their belief in the Way of Harmonious Peace, which can be said to be an application, or perhaps a bastardization, of Taoist principles to industrialized society. In practice, this translates to a kind of religious, militant, anarchist syndicalism. The Friends of the Yellow Scarves maintain webs of discreet cells embedded into major industrial neighborhoods and within the personal servants of rich businessmen. Each of these cells, with only tenuous connections to the whole, pass along information, messages, stolen food and medicine, explosive material, and religious and political doctrine, all through the lens of "Mutual Friendship, under Heaven." While they have no coherent, centralized ideological leader, and no long-term goals, the Friends of the Yellow Scarves have a deep loyalty to each other, and react vengefully against those who would disrupt their Harmonious Peace.
This one is... I'm not sure exactly if this is realistic enough for the purposes of this quest. I feel like "Yellow Turbans but also Red Jennys but also anarcho-syndicalists" might... sliiiightly breach the bounds of suspended disbelief. If the QM finds this unacceptable, I'm happy to change to something more tame... but I did have a lot of fun writing this up, heheh.
- Location
- United States
- Pronouns
- He/She/They
I'm the QM. The way I've designed the quest mechanics, it needs to be more specific than what you've put. I literally cannot create a character sheet off of your plan without redesigning the quest. Also in all of history there's literally never been a mass movement that had no goals or objectives whatsoever, so a little out of bounds of this quest.
I'll allow rule of cool for this one, especially since this timeline is an more leftist AU anyway. With the caveat that you'll be starting out a little less well established than your description makes it sound.
The one thing I would like you to change though, is that syndicalism doesn't exist yet. It's about 10ish years before becoming a thing in France and 15 years before the first American syndicalists (the IWW, who weren't even anarcho-syndicalists) became a thing. Some sort of proto-syndicalism like the IWPA had would work though.
LuciDreamer
Maliciously Incompetent
- Location
- United States
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Understood. Currently at a hair salon, but I will get a revised version to you some time this afternoon. Goal of the revisions will be to reduce the scope of the movement and redefine it to be less syndicalist-y. May the Azure Sky be overrun by the resplendent Yellow Sun.
Tabascoheath
Unkempt, Evil-eyed Charlatan, and Pseudo-Mystic
- Location
- Your Nearest Orbital Habitat
[X] The Forty Acres Movement
[X] The Party of Justice
-[X] Circumstances of founding: Jebediah Roberts was always unusually compassionate and friendly towards the poor and downtrodden no matter their race or faith or gender. It made sense as he was one of them, a wanderer and vagrant who toured the country by whatever means he could. During his travels he talked with many different people from all sorts of different backgrounds, and wrote down his observations in a manuscript. Eventually he became sick from a cancer still unidentified by scientists and died near the house of the Freemans, a family of poor black sharecroppers. The sharecroppers gave him water and shelter while he waited for the end and so Jebediah Roberts passed on his notebook to the Freeman household. The head of the household had never learned to read or write, but felt as if he should not destroy a man's life's work and so the book was sold for a pittance to a general store. The owner there, who was well versed in politics read a few pages out of boredom on a rainy day and became amazed at the wisdom contained in the book. He moved to have it published and shared and eventually a political party was formed based on his ideas.
-[X] Locale: Primarily the mid-Atlantic region.
-[X] Core Supporters: The Party of Justice tends to attract the educated white middle class with left leaning beliefs, but is also popular with minorities attracted to its ideas of racial equality.
-[X] Ideology: Robert's Philosophy has a few key points:
1. No one is at fault for their actions: Yes, bad people do exist, but a combination of nature and nurture determines their choices. If they are not responsible for their choices, punishment should never be punitive, but exist to maintain order.
2. Human beings are equal. Any differences between peoples living standards is due to various factors that cause inequality.
3. People are generally good. However, they are at their best when being bad is disadvantageous.
4. Power imbalances lessen the negative consequences for being evil in favor of the strong.
5. Therefore, the best way to ensure a good society is to make moderate and eliminate power imbalances.
As you might guess, The Party of Justice is strongly in favor of redistributive policies. They are also egalitarian, seeing racial, sexual, and other social hierarchies as other examples of power imbalance that need to be eliminated for the good of mankind.
-[X] Circumstances of founding: Jebediah Roberts was always unusually compassionate and friendly towards the poor and downtrodden no matter their race or faith or gender. It made sense as he was one of them, a wanderer and vagrant who toured the country by whatever means he could. During his travels he talked with many different people from all sorts of different backgrounds, and wrote down his observations in a manuscript. Eventually he became sick from a cancer still unidentified by scientists and died near the house of the Freemans, a family of poor black sharecroppers. The sharecroppers gave him water and shelter while he waited for the end and so Jebediah Roberts passed on his notebook to the Freeman household. The head of the household had never learned to read or write, but felt as if he should not destroy a man's life's work and so the book was sold for a pittance to a general store. The owner there, who was well versed in politics read a few pages out of boredom on a rainy day and became amazed at the wisdom contained in the book. He moved to have it published and shared and eventually a political party was formed based on his ideas.
-[X] Locale: Primarily the mid-Atlantic region.
-[X] Core Supporters: The Party of Justice tends to attract the educated white middle class with left leaning beliefs, but is also popular with minorities attracted to its ideas of racial equality.
-[X] Ideology: Robert's Philosophy has a few key points:
1. No one is at fault for their actions: Yes, bad people do exist, but a combination of nature and nurture determines their choices. If they are not responsible for their choices, punishment should never be punitive, but exist to maintain order.
2. Human beings are equal. Any differences between peoples living standards is due to various factors that cause inequality.
3. People are generally good. However, they are at their best when being bad is disadvantageous.
4. Power imbalances lessen the negative consequences for being evil in favor of the strong.
5. Therefore, the best way to ensure a good society is to make moderate and eliminate power imbalances.
As you might guess, The Party of Justice is strongly in favor of redistributive policies. They are also egalitarian, seeing racial, sexual, and other social hierarchies as other examples of power imbalance that need to be eliminated for the good of mankind.
LuciDreamer
Maliciously Incompetent
- Location
- United States
- Pronouns
- He/Him
[X] The Association of Friends of the Yellow Scarves
-[X] Circumstances of founding: An association that was originally formed by a particularly religious and militant group of Chinese dynamite blasters who demonstrated their displeasure with the working conditions on the First Transcontinental railroad by blowing up their Union Pacific bosses with nitroglycerin, inspiring a series of copycat rebellions across the line even as the National Guard was called in to restore order on the worksite. Now "Yellow Scarves" is a catchall term for a heavily decentralized group who engage in a relationship of mutual assistance to protect each other from what they view as a tyrannical, unjust, and disharmonious United States government. While secretive, many local leaders wear distinctive yellow vests, scarves, bands, or sashes as proof of their allegiance to one another.
-[X] Locale: As the Scarves are a decentralized group, they have no central command nexus. However, they are especially prominent in the city of Sacramento, and are able to exert some power over the West Coast due to their connections to the railroad industry.
-[X] Core Supporters: The Scarves are extremely popular with Chinese and Asian immigrants. However, over the years, they have gained some sympathizers amongst railroad workers, miners, and even disgruntled frontiersmen. They also have some tacit supporters among the Mormons of Utah, curiously enough.
-[X] Ideology: The core underlying belief that defines the Scarves is known as the Way of Harmonious Peace, which can be said to be an application, or perhaps a bastardization, of Taoist principles to industrialized society. The exact tenets, practices, and religious convictions vary wildly, but, in general, the Scarves believe that businesses, bosses, and worldly governments have thrown the world into spiritual disbalance through their accumulation of wealth and largess, and that the only way to resolve this disbalance is to use the power of their shared zealotry and their close connections with each other to seize that which has been stolen and give it back to the people; to replace the oppressive Azure Sky with a new Yellow Dawn. In practice, they are a religious, communal, militant, proto-anarchist movement, unified by vague religious ideological trappings and a shared sense of disenchantment with their lot in life.
@Physici better? I tried to tone down the "infiltration of most workplaces" angle, and geared the Ideology section more towards what they believe, as opposed to how they are organized.
I still think what I made is kind of silly, but I'm glad it's not being rejected outright! Heh.
-[X] Circumstances of founding: An association that was originally formed by a particularly religious and militant group of Chinese dynamite blasters who demonstrated their displeasure with the working conditions on the First Transcontinental railroad by blowing up their Union Pacific bosses with nitroglycerin, inspiring a series of copycat rebellions across the line even as the National Guard was called in to restore order on the worksite. Now "Yellow Scarves" is a catchall term for a heavily decentralized group who engage in a relationship of mutual assistance to protect each other from what they view as a tyrannical, unjust, and disharmonious United States government. While secretive, many local leaders wear distinctive yellow vests, scarves, bands, or sashes as proof of their allegiance to one another.
-[X] Locale: As the Scarves are a decentralized group, they have no central command nexus. However, they are especially prominent in the city of Sacramento, and are able to exert some power over the West Coast due to their connections to the railroad industry.
-[X] Core Supporters: The Scarves are extremely popular with Chinese and Asian immigrants. However, over the years, they have gained some sympathizers amongst railroad workers, miners, and even disgruntled frontiersmen. They also have some tacit supporters among the Mormons of Utah, curiously enough.
-[X] Ideology: The core underlying belief that defines the Scarves is known as the Way of Harmonious Peace, which can be said to be an application, or perhaps a bastardization, of Taoist principles to industrialized society. The exact tenets, practices, and religious convictions vary wildly, but, in general, the Scarves believe that businesses, bosses, and worldly governments have thrown the world into spiritual disbalance through their accumulation of wealth and largess, and that the only way to resolve this disbalance is to use the power of their shared zealotry and their close connections with each other to seize that which has been stolen and give it back to the people; to replace the oppressive Azure Sky with a new Yellow Dawn. In practice, they are a religious, communal, militant, proto-anarchist movement, unified by vague religious ideological trappings and a shared sense of disenchantment with their lot in life.
@Physici better? I tried to tone down the "infiltration of most workplaces" angle, and geared the Ideology section more towards what they believe, as opposed to how they are organized.
I still think what I made is kind of silly, but I'm glad it's not being rejected outright! Heh.
- Location
- United States
- Pronouns
- He/She/They
Yup, it's good now. And yeah, maybe it is a little silly, but history is entirely filled with very silly things!
Also for anyone else making new orgs, I'd like to request you only do so if it's sufficiently different than existing ones since the list is getting kinda long.
Godwinson
"Well, I've got nothing."
Well, I'm glad that we can create new organizations after turn one, because between COVID and scheduling issues, I don't think I'm going to get my organization written up in time.
Vote closed
1890: Planning
- Location
- United States
- Pronouns
- He/She/They
The late 1880s was an energetic time for the labor movement and others, with dozens of new organizations dedicated to one cause or another springing up. While still small, many would grow to become powerful movements in their own right.
It was also a hopeful time for them. The Republicans were in charge, promising protectionist tariffs to help industries as well as restraining the titans of industry and promising civil rights reform.
President Harrison has recently spent a lot of energy on reforming the civil service in an attempt to get rid of the spoils system. He faced heavy opposition by both the democrats and his own party, but managed to successfully empower the Civil Service Commission.
Some actions are universal and can be included in any organization's plan, others are just for one. Funds are per turn, they don't stack. Any ?s are for you to write-in a number for that action. New actions as write-ins are encouraged to be suggested at any time.
When voting, put the organization acronym before the name of the plan like this:
[X][WCUA] Plan do stuff
Universal Actions:
[] Require dues
--[] Small
--[] Medium
--[] Large
--[] Based on income
-[] Allow delinquent members
More dues reduces membership but increases income. Allowing delinquent members offsets the membership decrease but you also get less income.
[] Make a newspaper.
-[] Local: 5 funds, -2 per turn.
-[] National: 20 funds, -10 per turn.
-[] Many local across core region: 100 funds, -20 per turn.
Making newspapers can increase recruitment and increase the effectiveness of other actions such as putting candidates up for election. Only use an action for initial creation.
[] Stockpile guns. ? funds.
To complete is members/100. Roll 1d20 per funds. Rolling completion, decays 5% per turn representing use and action never disappears.
[] Train militia. ? cadres.
Uses 1 funds and 10 "stockpile guns" progress per cadre. Get 5d20 trained militia per cadre.
[] Organize protests about ?
Write-in option.
[] Attack organization building of ?
-[] ? times.
-[] Claim credit.
Write-in, can be an OTL organization or one of the other player organizations. Costs 1 wealth per building attacked. Note if it's discovered you did it, or if you claim credit, there will be consequences.
[] Make a public campaign defaming a rival person or group.
-[] Spend ? funds.
[] Send agitators to publicly speak supporting your cause.
-[] On the streets of cities. ? funds.
-[] In the factories of cities. ? funds.
-[] To mining towns. ? funds.
-[] To the farmworkers. ? funds.
-[] At parties of the rich. ? funds, min 20.
-[] In the lobbies of politicians. ? funds.
West Coast Union Association:
12000 supporters
2 actions, 4 funds
The Land and Labor Reform Party:
3800 supporters
1 action, 4 funds
The Revolutionary Federation of American Anarchists (RFAA):
15000 supporters
2 actions, 12 funds
The People's Party:
7440 supporters
1 action, 2 funds
The Forty Acres Movement:
28800 supporters
3 actions, 5 funds
The Society of Friends of All Faiths:
8000 supporters
2 actions, 7 funds
American People's Futurist Alliance:
3680 supporters
1 action, 4 funds
Radical Centralist Party:
3520 supporters
1 action, 3 funds
The Friends of the Huddled Masses:
24000 supporters
3 actions, 9 funds
The Orange Disciples:
8800 supporters
2 actions, 8 funds
The Party of Justice:
3600 supporters
1 action, 4 funds
The Association of Friends of the Yellow Scarves:
5200 supporters
1 action, 2 funds
AN: Due to the amount of groups, any that don't get a plan this turn are removed from the game.You can always re-found them later.
It was also a hopeful time for them. The Republicans were in charge, promising protectionist tariffs to help industries as well as restraining the titans of industry and promising civil rights reform.
President Harrison has recently spent a lot of energy on reforming the civil service in an attempt to get rid of the spoils system. He faced heavy opposition by both the democrats and his own party, but managed to successfully empower the Civil Service Commission.
Some actions are universal and can be included in any organization's plan, others are just for one. Funds are per turn, they don't stack. Any ?s are for you to write-in a number for that action. New actions as write-ins are encouraged to be suggested at any time.
When voting, put the organization acronym before the name of the plan like this:
[X][WCUA] Plan do stuff
Universal Actions:
[] Require dues
--[] Small
--[] Medium
--[] Large
--[] Based on income
-[] Allow delinquent members
More dues reduces membership but increases income. Allowing delinquent members offsets the membership decrease but you also get less income.
[] Make a newspaper.
-[] Local: 5 funds, -2 per turn.
-[] National: 20 funds, -10 per turn.
-[] Many local across core region: 100 funds, -20 per turn.
Making newspapers can increase recruitment and increase the effectiveness of other actions such as putting candidates up for election. Only use an action for initial creation.
[] Stockpile guns. ? funds.
To complete is members/100. Roll 1d20 per funds. Rolling completion, decays 5% per turn representing use and action never disappears.
[] Train militia. ? cadres.
Uses 1 funds and 10 "stockpile guns" progress per cadre. Get 5d20 trained militia per cadre.
[] Organize protests about ?
Write-in option.
[] Attack organization building of ?
-[] ? times.
-[] Claim credit.
Write-in, can be an OTL organization or one of the other player organizations. Costs 1 wealth per building attacked. Note if it's discovered you did it, or if you claim credit, there will be consequences.
[] Make a public campaign defaming a rival person or group.
-[] Spend ? funds.
[] Send agitators to publicly speak supporting your cause.
-[] On the streets of cities. ? funds.
-[] In the factories of cities. ? funds.
-[] To mining towns. ? funds.
-[] To the farmworkers. ? funds.
-[] At parties of the rich. ? funds, min 20.
-[] In the lobbies of politicians. ? funds.
West Coast Union Association:
12000 supporters
2 actions, 4 funds
[] Buy a permanent meeting room, either an office or small building. 5 funds. Gives +1 action.
[] Send organizers to help farm workers form unions. ? funds.
[] Send representatives to existing west coast industrial unions to set up a meeting for potentially becoming affiliated.
[] Set up a strike fund for associated unions to increase in the effectiveness of their strikes. ? funds.
[] Set up a think-group from contacts within various unions to find the best way to strike and get one's goals met. 2 funds, -2 per turn.
[] Send organizers to help farm workers form unions. ? funds.
[] Send representatives to existing west coast industrial unions to set up a meeting for potentially becoming affiliated.
[] Set up a strike fund for associated unions to increase in the effectiveness of their strikes. ? funds.
[] Set up a think-group from contacts within various unions to find the best way to strike and get one's goals met. 2 funds, -2 per turn.
The Land and Labor Reform Party:
3800 supporters
1 action, 4 funds
[] Run an independent candidate for the governor of Michigan and various other electoral positions. ? funds for campaigning.
[] Contact various politicians in the main two parties to see if they would be willing to be affiliated with the Land and Labor Reform Party.
[] Contact various politicians in the main two parties to see if they would be willing to be affiliated with the Land and Labor Reform Party.
The Revolutionary Federation of American Anarchists (RFAA):
15000 supporters
2 actions, 12 funds
[] Buy a permanent meeting room, either an office or small building. 5 funds. Gives +1 action.
[] Send organizers to help factory workers form unions. ? funds.
[] Send organizers to help ship workers form unions. ? funds.
[] Set up a think-group from contacts within various unions to find the best way to strike and get one's goals met. 2 funds. -2 per turn.
[] Send organizers all across New York to set up mutual aid groups. 2 funds, -1 per turn.
[] Send agitators to local unions to try to convince them of the necessity of Anarcho-Collectivism.
[] Request various members, especially police officers or former police officers, to transfer to the New York Police Department. 1 funds.
[] Attempt a takeover of the New York Police Department. ? funds. Warning: There will be consequences, especially if you fail.
[] Send organizers to help factory workers form unions. ? funds.
[] Send organizers to help ship workers form unions. ? funds.
[] Set up a think-group from contacts within various unions to find the best way to strike and get one's goals met. 2 funds. -2 per turn.
[] Send organizers all across New York to set up mutual aid groups. 2 funds, -1 per turn.
[] Send agitators to local unions to try to convince them of the necessity of Anarcho-Collectivism.
[] Request various members, especially police officers or former police officers, to transfer to the New York Police Department. 1 funds.
[] Attempt a takeover of the New York Police Department. ? funds. Warning: There will be consequences, especially if you fail.
The People's Party:
7440 supporters
1 action, 2 funds
[] Buy a permanent meeting room, either an office or small building. 5 funds. Gives +1 action.
[] Run independent candidates for the various electoral positions in Texas and other southern/western states you're strong in. ? funds for campaigning.
[] Run a program in Mississippi for black voters to help them pass the literacy tests that were recently made. 3/5/10/20 funds.
[] Run independent candidates for the various electoral positions in Texas and other southern/western states you're strong in. ? funds for campaigning.
[] Run a program in Mississippi for black voters to help them pass the literacy tests that were recently made. 3/5/10/20 funds.
The Forty Acres Movement:
28800 supporters
3 actions, 5 funds
[] Buy a permanent meeting room, either an office or small building. 5 funds. Gives +1 action.
[] Make a fund dedicated to buying out farms that members work on and giving them to the sharecroppers who work them when possible, as well as buying equipment for them. ? funds. 0/(2880) progress, 1d20 per fund.
[] Make a fund dedicated to paying fines put on African-Americans for arrests that could result in prison. ? funds.
[] Set up a committee to organize groups with whatever they can get their hands on (bats, batons, etc.) to work together to prevent lynchings and unlawful seizures of property.
[] Set up a mutual aid network for members with farms to sell cheaply to those who can't afford food.
[] Make a think-group to make propaganda targeted at poor whites in terms of solidarity between races. 2 funds, -2 funds per turn.
[] Make a fund dedicated to buying out farms that members work on and giving them to the sharecroppers who work them when possible, as well as buying equipment for them. ? funds. 0/(2880) progress, 1d20 per fund.
[] Make a fund dedicated to paying fines put on African-Americans for arrests that could result in prison. ? funds.
[] Set up a committee to organize groups with whatever they can get their hands on (bats, batons, etc.) to work together to prevent lynchings and unlawful seizures of property.
[] Set up a mutual aid network for members with farms to sell cheaply to those who can't afford food.
[] Make a think-group to make propaganda targeted at poor whites in terms of solidarity between races. 2 funds, -2 funds per turn.
The Society of Friends of All Faiths:
8000 supporters
2 actions, 7 funds
[] Buy a permanent meeting room, either an office or small building. 5 funds. Gives +1 action.
[] Contact various churches and synagogues in New York to find ones that are willing to officially support your values.
[] Form cross-community mutual aid groups in New York out of your members. 2 funds, -1 per turn.
[] Reach out to new immigrants fleeing religious prosecution to help them integrate. ? funds.
[] Contact various churches and synagogues in New York to find ones that are willing to officially support your values.
[] Form cross-community mutual aid groups in New York out of your members. 2 funds, -1 per turn.
[] Reach out to new immigrants fleeing religious prosecution to help them integrate. ? funds.
American People's Futurist Alliance:
3680 supporters
1 action, 4 funds
[] Reach out to new immigrants and help them integrate in exchange for joining the APFA. ? funds.
[] Find politicians that may be willing to support your cause and convince them to, as well as endorsing them. ? funds.
[] Find politicians that may be willing to support your cause and convince them to, as well as endorsing them. ? funds.
Radical Centralist Party:
3520 supporters
1 action, 3 funds
[] Contact various politicians in the main two parties to see if they would be willing to be affiliated with the Radical Centrist Party, as well as lobbying them to follow your ideology more closely. ? funds.
The Friends of the Huddled Masses:
24000 supporters
3 actions, 9 funds
[] Buy a permanent meeting room, either an office or small building. 5 funds. Gives +1 action.
[] Set up mutual aid groups in the San Gabriel Valley of Los Angeles. 2 funds, -1 per turn.
[] Contact Chinese majority towns such as Locke and Walnut Grove and set up a committee dedicated to helping them coordinate when needed. 5 funds, -1 per turn.
[] Lobby to support pro-Chinese immigration republicans this elections, especially to repeal the Scott Act which makes fishing for Chinese people unprofitable. ? funds.
[] Send organizers to help Chinese miners form their own unions. ? funds.
[] Set up mutual aid groups in the San Gabriel Valley of Los Angeles. 2 funds, -1 per turn.
[] Contact Chinese majority towns such as Locke and Walnut Grove and set up a committee dedicated to helping them coordinate when needed. 5 funds, -1 per turn.
[] Lobby to support pro-Chinese immigration republicans this elections, especially to repeal the Scott Act which makes fishing for Chinese people unprofitable. ? funds.
[] Send organizers to help Chinese miners form their own unions. ? funds.
The Orange Disciples:
8800 supporters
2 actions, 8 funds
[] Buy a permanent meeting room, either an office or small building. 5 funds. Gives +1 action.
[] Contact various churches to find ones that may officially support you.
[] Help organize and encourage voting in progressive-leaning areas.
[] Lobby various politicians to support progressive laws. ? funds.
[] Contact various churches to find ones that may officially support you.
[] Help organize and encourage voting in progressive-leaning areas.
[] Lobby various politicians to support progressive laws. ? funds.
The Party of Justice:
3600 supporters
1 action, 4 funds
[] Organize a book club in Baltimore to share Jebediah Roberts' books as well as other related ideological works. 3 funds.
The Association of Friends of the Yellow Scarves:
5200 supporters
1 action, 2 funds
[] Buy a permanent meeting room, either an office or small building. 5 funds. Gives +1 action.
[] Set up mutual assistance groups in Sacramento among communities your members are a part of. 2 funds, -1 per turn.
[] Request better conditions at mines, and assassinate bosses who refuse. 1/5/10 funds.
[] Set up contacts in railroad unions for potentially striking and opportune times.
[] Contact various guilds (Chinese trade unions) and set up a committee to help them coordinate.
[] Set up mutual assistance groups in Sacramento among communities your members are a part of. 2 funds, -1 per turn.
[] Request better conditions at mines, and assassinate bosses who refuse. 1/5/10 funds.
[] Set up contacts in railroad unions for potentially striking and opportune times.
[] Contact various guilds (Chinese trade unions) and set up a committee to help them coordinate.
AN: Due to the amount of groups, any that don't get a plan this turn are removed from the game.You can always re-found them later.
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Tabascoheath
Unkempt, Evil-eyed Charlatan, and Pseudo-Mystic
- Location
- Your Nearest Orbital Habitat
[X][TFAM] Plan Getting Off The Ground
-[X] Require dues
--[X] Based on income
-[X] Buy a permanent meeting room, either an office or small building. 5 funds. Gives +1 action.
-[X] Set up a mutual aid network for members with farms to sell cheaply to those who can't afford food.
Plan for getting a steady stream of income, a nice fourth action and a mutual aid network to help people and garner goodwill.
Edit, Based on income, get more people paying and chance at long term econ growth, so potential for more income in dues
-[X] Require dues
--[X] Based on income
-[X] Buy a permanent meeting room, either an office or small building. 5 funds. Gives +1 action.
-[X] Set up a mutual aid network for members with farms to sell cheaply to those who can't afford food.
Plan for getting a steady stream of income, a nice fourth action and a mutual aid network to help people and garner goodwill.
Edit, Based on income, get more people paying and chance at long term econ growth, so potential for more income in dues
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[X] [POJ] 1st action
-[X] Organize a book club in Baltimore to share Jebediah Roberts' books as well as other related ideological works. 3 funds.
While it's a somewhat obvious choice, it's also the best one for now. Hopefully I'll be able to flesh out Roberts' ideas through some omakes.
-[X] Organize a book club in Baltimore to share Jebediah Roberts' books as well as other related ideological works. 3 funds.
While it's a somewhat obvious choice, it's also the best one for now. Hopefully I'll be able to flesh out Roberts' ideas through some omakes.
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- Location
- California,USA
[X][LLRP]PLAN GROWING AND SEIZING THE DAY
[X] Require dues
-[X] Based on income
--[X] Send agitators to publicly speak supporting your cause.
---[X] To the farmworkers. 2 funds.
Progress and Poverty is only 11 years old, IT NEEDS TO BE READ!
Also MONEY!
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THE LAND WILL BE VALUED! AND THE LAND WILL BE TAXED!
RFAA: NO YOU CAN'T DIVIDE THE RURAL PROLETARIAT! WITH YOUR RATIONAL POLICY AND Citizen's Dividends, We need them to be angry so they can support the Abolition of the state!!
LLRP: I can't hear you over the SOUND OF MY LAND REFORMING PLATFORM!
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The Forty Acres Movement: I want land reform so the Lodge Act can pass to enfranchise the African Americans and poor whites who have been forced into Share Cropping and a Cycle of Debt.
The Land and Labor Reform Party: I want land reform so I can abolish the Landlord Class that facilitates that cycle of debts and uses their power to economically prevent fair and civil society from improving and using the land to its full potential so that they can focus on gaining capital to improve said land and their lives.
The Forty Acres Movement: Are...our goals compatible? what is your stance on Civil Rights?
The Land and Labor Reform Party: I shall quote Mr George
The Forty Acres Movement: Oh...that doesn't give me an answer.
The Land and Labor Reform Party: I hate the southern landlords for abusing and cheating the African American's out of their land's full value.
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Also @Physici are you alright with us writing Omakes?
[X] Require dues
-[X] Based on income
--[X] Send agitators to publicly speak supporting your cause.
---[X] To the farmworkers. 2 funds.
Progress and Poverty is only 11 years old, IT NEEDS TO BE READ!
Also MONEY!
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THE LAND WILL BE VALUED! AND THE LAND WILL BE TAXED!
RFAA: NO YOU CAN'T DIVIDE THE RURAL PROLETARIAT! WITH YOUR RATIONAL POLICY AND Citizen's Dividends, We need them to be angry so they can support the Abolition of the state!!
LLRP: I can't hear you over the SOUND OF MY LAND REFORMING PLATFORM!
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The Forty Acres Movement: I want land reform so the Lodge Act can pass to enfranchise the African Americans and poor whites who have been forced into Share Cropping and a Cycle of Debt.
The Land and Labor Reform Party: I want land reform so I can abolish the Landlord Class that facilitates that cycle of debts and uses their power to economically prevent fair and civil society from improving and using the land to its full potential so that they can focus on gaining capital to improve said land and their lives.
The Forty Acres Movement: Are...our goals compatible? what is your stance on Civil Rights?
The Land and Labor Reform Party: I shall quote Mr George
Progress and Poverty said:
The Forty Acres Movement: Oh...that doesn't give me an answer.
The Land and Labor Reform Party: I hate the southern landlords for abusing and cheating the African American's out of their land's full value.
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Also @Physici are you alright with us writing Omakes?
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[X][TFHM] Setting Roots
-[X] Require dues
--[X] Based on income
--[X] Allow delinquent members
-[X] Buy a permanent meeting room, either an office or small building. 5 funds. Gives +1 action.
-[X] Lobby to support pro-Chinese immigration republicans this elections, especially to repeal the Scott Act which makes fishing for Chinese people unprofitable. 2 funds.
-[X] Send organizers to help Chinese miners form their own unions. 2 funds.
Dues for cash since with three (and soon four) actions, we need a source of income to keep up.
Lobby to get things started, 2 funds mainly because we're kinda strapped for cash if we go with the meeting building.
Organizers to actually get some work on the ground, 2 funds for the same. Honestly could probably swap the last for either agitators in cities or San Gabriel Valley, though that leaves us with one less fund per turn.
Btw how long are turns gonna be? Since our action mentions elections and wasn't sure how long that'd last if not taken.
Edit: Adding delinquent members for now since we're a generally poor immigrant population, not about to be harsh about that
-[X] Require dues
--[X] Based on income
--[X] Allow delinquent members
-[X] Buy a permanent meeting room, either an office or small building. 5 funds. Gives +1 action.
-[X] Lobby to support pro-Chinese immigration republicans this elections, especially to repeal the Scott Act which makes fishing for Chinese people unprofitable. 2 funds.
-[X] Send organizers to help Chinese miners form their own unions. 2 funds.
Dues for cash since with three (and soon four) actions, we need a source of income to keep up.
Lobby to get things started, 2 funds mainly because we're kinda strapped for cash if we go with the meeting building.
Organizers to actually get some work on the ground, 2 funds for the same. Honestly could probably swap the last for either agitators in cities or San Gabriel Valley, though that leaves us with one less fund per turn.
Btw how long are turns gonna be? Since our action mentions elections and wasn't sure how long that'd last if not taken.
Edit: Adding delinquent members for now since we're a generally poor immigrant population, not about to be harsh about that
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[X][WCUA] Expand, Expand, Expand!
-[X] Send organizers to help farm workers form unions. 4 funds.
-[X] Require dues
--[X] Small
-[X] Allow delinquent members
Edit: Wait, are dues an action or not?
-[X] Send organizers to help farm workers form unions. 4 funds.
-[X] Require dues
--[X] Small
-[X] Allow delinquent members
Edit: Wait, are dues an action or not?
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- Location
- United States
- Pronouns
- He/She/They
Yeah, omakes are all good.
Also make sure to make your subvotes actually subvotes by having a - in front of the [].
And @Bobalo18 please include [POJ] in front of your vote. Like Tabasco and Haruhi did.
Each turn is 1 year long, for now. '82 will have more election actions.
The Society of Friends of All Faiths:
[X] [TSFAF]Get Organized
-[X] Buy a permanent meeting room, either an office or small building. 5 funds. Gives +1 action. Preference would be given to somewhere in the immigrant-dominated neighborhoods of New York
-[X] Contact various churches and synagogues in New York to find ones that are willing to officially support your values.
[X] [TSFAF]Get Organized
-[X] Buy a permanent meeting room, either an office or small building. 5 funds. Gives +1 action. Preference would be given to somewhere in the immigrant-dominated neighborhoods of New York
-[X] Contact various churches and synagogues in New York to find ones that are willing to officially support your values.
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