Why is this solarpunk? Because changing society takes people power. Because protests change nations. Because for the last decade protests inspired by democratic anarchist principles have sprung up in nation after nation, from the Arab Spring to Occupy Wall Street. And the after action report of the first two decades of the 21st century shows not just how anarchist-inspired protests began but how they fail - and who takes advantage of that failure.
This article is long, complex, and hard to read. Emotionally hard. It holds some truths that are hard for punks and anarchists to hear.
And if your activism is more than just posting online it may be the most important article you read this year.
Peaceful protests don’t lead to revolutions, violent protests do. When things get so bad that people start to violently destroy the infrastructure then you get revolutions.
Revolutionaries start real revolts by terrorizing the powers that be.