Tangibles will tell you who your allies are, but money is the easiest. Loyalty, commitment, longevity, struggle is the hardest… Know who wants to be with you and know who wants to pimp you.
If you’re going to control the territory, then there’s strategy involved. You can burn down the precinct and hope that nobody dies, but buildings are insured, and it’s tax paying dollars that’s gonna rebuild the thing. We are going to pay for everything that gets destroyed because we don’t control the means of production and we don’t control the bank… Could we take it over and turn it into a medic clinic, can we occupy space and keep it? If we don’t have a strategy, we don’t prevail.
Our love is capacious. How do you organise with love, and stay two steps ahead?
Joy James, On the George Floyd Uprising & the Agency of Abolition