First: yes, we may well need the underground end of things, and I've probably already disqualified myself from that. I suspect that's going to be organized more quietly, not on a nationwide website open to anyone who expresses interest and will provide an email address.
Second, it feels like there are a couple of different shapes of protest around here. One are the more "establishment" kinds of things, which may be called at short notice, but involve significant elected officials, like a rally against hate organized by the Anti-Defamation League back in December (the first time I was in the streets after the election), which got a few hundred of us standing outside the Statehouse but had speakers including state legislators. The mayor of Boston has been at a lot of these, and he and Sen. Warren both spoke at the 24 hours' notice rally in Boston against the Muslim ban. Then there are things that are more trying to get the attention of those sympathetic officials, and/or let people generally know which side we're on, like the rally for trans* youth I went to a few weeks ago, where the only elected official was the first trans* member of the state Democratic committee.
At some point it may be useful for Senator Warren to be able to tell her colleagues "it's not just me, it's two million Americans last weekend" as well as for us to be telling our trans* immigrant neighbors that they're not alone.
thinking aloud, again
Second, it feels like there are a couple of different shapes of protest around here. One are the more "establishment" kinds of things, which may be called at short notice, but involve significant elected officials, like a rally against hate organized by the Anti-Defamation League back in December (the first time I was in the streets after the election), which got a few hundred of us standing outside the Statehouse but had speakers including state legislators. The mayor of Boston has been at a lot of these, and he and Sen. Warren both spoke at the 24 hours' notice rally in Boston against the Muslim ban. Then there are things that are more trying to get the attention of those sympathetic officials, and/or let people generally know which side we're on, like the rally for trans* youth I went to a few weeks ago, where the only elected official was the first trans* member of the state Democratic committee.
At some point it may be useful for Senator Warren to be able to tell her colleagues "it's not just me, it's two million Americans last weekend" as well as for us to be telling our trans* immigrant neighbors that they're not alone.