Let's Go! is a movement infrastructure and support network founded at the end of 2024. We saw that the national political disaster was pushing many movements into immobility, and multiple political currents into stasis. In order to get out of the national malaise and get going again, we came together around the theme of local struggles, where we saw diverse participants fighting in new and vital ways against top-down, oligarchic projects like data centers, Flock surveillance, and ICE infrastructure.
We focus on training and movement infrastructure, supporting these local fights from the bottom up and helping them make global impacts. We think local groups and struggles are where the most interesting things are happening and we want to help those involve connect with each other, skill up, and get the resources they need to win.
To structure this practical orientation, we've adopted these principles:
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We fight for and with people and places being sacrificed and scapegoated. We are those people. We are those places.
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We believe in collective and courageous action against the polycrisis. We take risks because we know we are not alone in our struggles against data centers, ICE prisons, and other technofascist infrastructure.
Our strategic assumptions are:
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InvitationalityNurture broad struggles that build local power by lowering the threshold for joining so that people don't have to reinvent their entire lives or politics to participate.
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RelationalityHelp participants improve their ability to build relationships and cooperate with diverse formations and strategic approaches - immigrant rights groups, faith communities, farmers, etc.
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CompositionCreate spaces for different kinds of people to think, move, and fight together in coordinated ways. By finding different reasons to work together, diverse formations - including our own - can be changed by the experience of common struggle. Focus on practical steps and provisional wagers over ideological conflict.
Let's Go! was co-created by participants seasoned in a wide variety of movements, from the campaign to free Mumia Abu-Jamal, Mountain Justice Summer, IWW organizing, Ferguson, Standing Rock, Occupy ICE, No Coal No Gas, Global Justice, Jewish Voice for Peace, Occupy Wall Street, Jobs with Justice, George Floyd, and more. But even as we train, our goal is to keep learning and to keep being transformed by those we work with and the movements we participate in.