What does leftypol think about the General Defense Committee of the IWW?

What does leftypol think about the General Defense Committee of the IWW?

Heres one of their bail funds crowdrise.com/gdc-bail-fund-for-j20

currently I haven't see them do anything yet

but then again, I am in a small rural branch, the the leader just doesn't want to wing it,he wants to do it just right 👌

how many people are in your branch then?

around 15-20 recurring members, maybe upwards of 30 for everyone that doesn't show up much

apparently its a rather large group that isn't in a metropolitan area

general IWW btw, not the defense committee

so do you all have any organizing things going on or do you all just go to meetings?

what exactly do they do?

Is it possible to set up an IWW chapter just as a general socialist org rather than specifically as a labour organization? I know you don't have to work at an IWW shop to be a member.

if you have 10 people you can set up a general membership branch.

I think the GDC does more of the non-labor radical shit.

Tbh I'd love to set up an actual union local but pretty much everything where I live is already unionized under USW.

a lot of people are dual carders in other branches.

Right now, it seems like they have a plan of about 1 meeting a month, 2 trainings or committee meetings on something specific, and 1 or 2 activist things a month. Currently their favorite thing to do is protest pipelines.

Again, is a rural one, idk if this is standard practice

As someone else said, all you need is 10 members.

Hilariously, apparently one of the Philadephia chapters is having issues actually getting 10 people to show up to make their thing official. So they are busing down a few of our guys to learn them how to organize properly.

They are in Philly and located at a fucking anarchist co-op and can't get 10 people. 😂

I'm a part of an IWW chapter in New England and I know the official national stance of the IWW is that they don't want to be seen as a Syndicalist organization, so I'd just lie to the main people when you're creating it as long as you still plan on providing the services that a normal branch would. Mine touts around the red and black when we congregate for strikes, so once you're set up you won't get disavowed.

Yeah, they do. They're not larping liberals for the most part though(Most are ansyn or ancom) and we only show up to things that affect the worker. Lately we've been mostly organizing against prison slave labor and ICE raids.

So chapters do offer logistical support for one another then. Me and some others have tried starting our own org but we're having some trouble getting our shit together. Might be useful to try to start an IWW chapter instead and take advantage of the support from the group as a whole.

Didnt the Philly branch implode or some shit?

what kind of training are you giving out?

A lot of it is just basic activism 101, like the different roles activist groups have, who we should target, and how should be target them, ect. I think they are doing it to educate the people who are incoming newbies who came after their J20 protest.

The last training they had was about how to deal with the local press, how to send out a press release properly, everyone should prepare what they are going to say before they protest if the newsman focuses on you and asks you questions, ect.

why not just have a designated media liaison?

Pretty sure part of the idea is that you'll be going out and hopefully forming your own wobbly shop at which point you'd basically be the shop's media liason, and can't control who the newsman talks to at the protest

I'm still kinda new at this, but I think it has to do with how the IWW is suppose to ideally function. Whenever you want to do something, you bring it up to a meeting and you can get other people to help you out and making a separate committee on it to organize it, and this committee is suppose to act individually from the branch, which is why they want everyone to have the necessary knowledge and skills to pull off a committee.

Also, I think it gets draining for the same 3-4 people to organize everything, they want the rest of us have that ability one day.

We typically dont have 'committees', theyre usually working groups. Only reason i know that is because in order to have formal committee, you have write up bylaws and shit which most people just don't wanna do because its legal jargon with the word 'whereas' everywhere to sound official.

source.Am fellow worker/defender

Iww is a bunch of idpolled posers

If you are in the IWW you're a fucking lifestylist

What's idpol or lifestylist about it?

Idk, maybe my group is using the wrong words then, they make committees for everything.

bump cause fuck you

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