The Panthers did free before school breakfast and after school babysitting and all sorts of actual community building like that. The PSL does protests and craft events and that’s it. I guess providing consistent services is an order of magnitude more difficult than organizing marches but it just doesn’t seem like the marches are getting us anywhere.
Fundraising by doing crimes is real, real, real, real hard these days. The fbi, treasury, and irs have better tools thant they did in the 60s and 70s, you can’t really make any money robbing banks, smuggling cheap consumer goods isn’t really viable. To launder money you’ve got to have money coming in from somewhere. There aren’t a lot of sympathetic criminal enterprises that need someone to run their money through the laundry right now.
I’ve had the dream of drop shipping trump tshirts and donating the money to leftist orgs but I lack any and all business acumen. I can barely haggle on craigslist
What if we put our collective heads together we could make a single functioning capitalist/entrepreneur to funnel money into the movement