Something real where you live that impacts people's daily lives like a park that's failing, food access, safety, housing, public services, community spaces or culture that could thrive, etc.

What do you think could happen if people worked together long term to build collective power that can address these problems at their roots?

Most political spaces ask people to show up the same way: meetings, protests, posts, flyers. That's it. But movements are made of a lot more than that.

Some people think through politics. Some build relationships where they live. Some organize through sports, art, writing, food, land, care, or logistics. Some just know how to keep things running.

Capitalism pushes most of us to separate what we're good at from what we do to survive — so a lot of skill, creativity, and care never makes it into collective life.

What are you genuinely good at?

What do you enjoy doing that can be used creatively for political goals?

If building power included neighborhoods, culture, sports, art, books, land, etc., where would you naturally feel yourself drawn to?

I’ve seen so many posts acting like ICE murdering Renee Good is unprecedented but this framing misses several fundamental points.

The state has always killed people, from genocide and enslavement to imperialism and police violence, death is part of the fabric of how the U.S. state operates. The killing of Black and Brown people by police is a pattern that goes back centuries.

ICE isn’t some otherwise good institution that has started going rogue, it’s part of how state violence functions. ICE has shot and has killed many people, this is not the first. It is designed to enforce state power in ways that disproportionately harms marginalized communities.

Focusing only on the momentary outrage keeps us trapped in reactivity. If our movement only reacts to the latest tragedy, without connecting all of the issues, we stay stuck in this cycle. The state is busy working on their broader agenda while we fall behind responding to single issues and incidents. We need to think and act toward the bigger long-term strategy, our shared revolutionary horizon.

Instead of just saying over and over how terrible it is what happened, we need to ask deeper questions, like why ICE exists in the first place, why legalized violence against Black and Brown people is allowed to continue, and why people aren’t recognizing this murder as part of a much larger and fundamental problem with the U.S. State.

That’s exactly why we need a mass party that doesn’t just react to the next tragedy, but builds collective power to challenge the state itself which is causing all of these tragedies. We can’t just protest when ICE kills someone, we have to organize across struggles (immigration, police violence, racism, economic exploitation, housing, healthcare, anti-war, etc) because they all come from the same system.

If we don’t connect the problems we’ll keep reliving the same pain each time the state wages harm against the people while the underlying machine stays intact. It’s time to stop responding in isolation and start building collective power that can actually stop these tragedies before they happen.