Seattle, WA: Report Back from “Shutdown Boeing” ( itsgoingdown.org )

Sunforged , 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago)

Actions like this do little other than make the people participating feel good. Edit: I hate that phrase, let me restate that. Actions like this do little other than diffuse revolutionary energy by wasting peoples effort with ineffective and often counter productive action. I don’t say that to take away from the energy and need to do something that people feel, but it’s constructive criticism on where that energy should be directed.

For real effective change we need to be engaging the working people at Boeing to organize within their union to enact a strike over the company’s involvement in Gaza. Actions like this and the one in the port of Tacoma refuse (don’t think?) to bring in union workers to their organizing, treating them antagonistic instead. This ends up being detrimental to the cause as it turns off fellow working class people to the goals of the protest.

Organizing tables day after day at Boeing to engage with employees is not as exciting as blocking roads and chanting, it’s hard and can lead to conversations that are difficult to navigate, but it’s the kind of approach that is much more effective in actually making progress.