Time for the Organization of the Black Lives Matter Movement

Today is June 19th 2020; I want to start out by telling you a story. A professor of mine in college hung out with the Black Panthers in Oakland and he told me about a Panther that went down in the deep South in the 60's. He was picked up by the police and back then the jails were split into black and white holding and these cops decide to put him into the white cell expecting by morning the 'good ol boys' would teach him a lesson, but this did not happen. He organized them. My prof asked me "What did he say?" It took me 3 months of thinking to answer the question. That panther used his skills of identifying the issues they had and helped them to understand their collective power to bring about change for their own community. BLM is not organized that I can see into a form of maximum mobility and able to act as a cohesive movement for every city and small town across the country, and if we done't address change on a scale that is massive reaching all these places we will fall short of a national goal for systematic change. Please don't take this as a insult; for, I am trying to help every group, city, state and the movement as a whole. I do not want to be the leader for you have found those coming forth all over the nation from the great cities like D.C., New York, Chicago, Seattle, and Atlanta to little town like here in Oregon were Eugene and Roseburg towns with a vast demographic of whites have come forth with their black brothers and sisters or Florence South Carolina were high School students have made their mark. All over this country leaders of every walk are now coming together after 2 weeks of protests and creating direct policies and demands working with the existing structure to implement change in policing, in community outreach, in budgets, and in the very essence of systematic racism that is changing as we move forward. Every night the news all across the nation from major media to local stations are telling the story of change. I could go on and on about all the work that has been done and that needs to be done and this will be different for every town and city. Yes the message is the same in protests, but in Facebook groups I see a chance to organize better and that is the main medium being used right now to gather new recruits and spread the work of Black Lives Matter. I tried to enter a local group here in Oregon and wound up in groups that had no center and had people from all over the country or all over the world even. A few groups were built partly by word of mouth which I consider a great way to find true soldiers for the cause, but others were not done with that great deliberation that meeting during a protest can achieve. I entered 5 and looked over about 10 ranging in size from a few hundred to 15k. A admin of one group said the had 400 request in 3 hours and needed help to vet all the new people. I heard one admin use a facebook tool that would not allow new profiles to be used. I found lots of profiles that were create June 6th and they often were causing dissent and some of these people are dangerous.The problems are numerous, from location, central message, logistics, infiltrators, and the ability to coordinate the "Troops'. I have long studied MLK, Gandhi, Nelson Mandela and and the history of the civil rights movement and time all the way back to the civil war. The organization and logistical control was massive during the civil rights era, from 10k men named g George the Train Porters, SNCC, College students, Local and national church groups and any other group that wanted to be a part thus requiring a team for every type of issue, Each place it changed and a new set of goals needed to be assessed. The same outline be used in every situation incorporating the 4 steps of a nonviolent action campaign as out lined by Martin Luther King Jr. The 4 basic steps are: 1. Collection of the facts to determine whether injustices are alive. 2. Negotiation. 3. Self purification of those who will be engaging in the final step. 4. Action.
I spoke to my father Jerome Ernst a life long worker for civil rights and activism as a journalist with his award winning work in Selma in the Extension Magazine and for the National Catholic Conference for Interracial Justice in DC on what he would do and he said that organization was the key to success in every campaign. He told me a story about the night before the march across the Edmund Pettus bridge in Selma. They were gathered in a room to undergo the purification step; for, they did not know if there was to be violence. They had just gone through "Bloody Sunday" and lots of protesters were beaten savagely.The organizers had everyone curl up on the floor and close their eyes and then went around beating them with rolled up news papers and screaming at them. Dad said, "It scared the heck out of me." Each step of the four steps can be expanded to include all scenarios or issues.
National, State, Local chapters and centers need to be set. The next part in organization is to have a center of information, goals, jobs needed doing, and those who will do the jobs. It could be a blog with out lines, or a central email. The leaders could be singular or a committee and then the communication can be organized. Lots of energy and momentum is being lost and the militant right wing white supremacist groups are able to gather information and form counter actions just due to organization and lack of security.
It is paramount that welfare of those involved in the struggle be a top priority. Terrible things have already happened, and  extremists who want to stop the BLM movement are still in our communities every avenue to keep people safe should be considered. 
The movement now has so many 'Troops' that they should have enough people do get everything done in the way of protest goals and that includes keeping protesters and community safe. We have the power of the internet and don't have to wait on letters in the mail, or make phone calls, yet these are still great tools. Snail mail still rocks and is secure. Work with those in the community you are at to develop organization, and to achieve goals. There are lawyers, NAACP, and other social groups and workers who will help you work with politicians to make a plan to change our communities. As we move into a new phase from protests, to assessing the facts of injustice, to negotiation, to direct action within each community let us do so with forethought and set goals that can be attained with the massive waking of our communities. I consider it fit and proper that we also do what we can to educate our fellow citizens that might not understand what we are doing, so they can be a part of the solution. There will always be resistance to change, yet if the final goals are for more freedom and security in a society and less hate and fear we shall over come all obstacles
Dr. King had a dream and we are bring it to full life, Let freedom ring from every hill and dale, let freedom ring in every song and every chant, let freedom ring from the streets to the halls of justice. Let freedom ring so loud that the whole world will see that,
"Now is the time!"
Thank you.
No Fear
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THOR