Submitted by existential1 in AskRaddle
I was listening to a recent episode of "The Ex-Worker" podcast, and after riffing on the inefficacy of voting and spending time on convincing politicians to do this or that, they ended the program with an ask to call prison wardens to change x or y thing for a particular inmate.
Is it just me, or is this not any different? It is still calling a state representative to do something non-oppressive isn't it? Am I missing something?
Asking for myself, not a friend.
Pop wrote
Its a bit more direct if you're talking to the individual who has the power over a smaller institution
If you're managing to piss the person off by having the phone ringing all the time, then it's more like direct action
sometimes its easier just to stop being an asshole to one of your prisoners than to deal with phonecalls all day, but a petition doesn't need to be looked at
and if it's as part of other actions, it can potentially help
That said, I don't really know, never done it