Do We Continue to Whine, or Do We March?

[EffieBlack]

5. It sounds like you have experience with exactly what I'm talking about

The work you've done was effective because it wasn't limited to just marching - the same reason the anti-war and civil rights movements made a difference. They weren't based just on marches - in fact, marching and protests were only part of it - an important part but only a part. Marching without a clear-minded legislative, political and legal strategy has little impact.

I am very worried that we are focusing too much on the marches and protests and are not doing the harder work of organizing and strategizing. Marching is well and good, but then what? What's the political strategy? What's the legal strategy? How is the marching going to leverage and drive the strategy and vice versa?

So far, I'm not seeing much thought going in to those questions. Sorry if you feel that raising these questions and saying that people need to do more than just march and tweet is a personal attack on you - these questions need to be asked and we need to get our sh*t together or else we'll just be making a lot of noise with no results.

My question stands - marching is great, but THEN WHAT?