i'm going to say i'm agnostic on the spy thing although it doesn't seem that way to me.
however i did want to say that while i see and value your passion, values and vibe, it's important to be careful about how you're putting yourself out there. "especially these days"... i was thinking more in terms of like, putting your photo and possibly identifying info on a blog for fash to come after, than that @s/lefties will think you are a cop if you come off too earnest, but i guess both are good examples of the sorts of things you should think about when transitioning from campus- to street(?)-based activism. i also think it just sounds fundamentally iffy to start a public project of any sort when first getting into something, not matter what the topic, i mean again i appreciate the confidence, but i also internally facepalm when i think of some of the early stuff i wrote and distributed either online or in zines, and wish i had taken a bit longer to observe and absorb before deciding whether to "speak up", what to say and how. don't be like this guy...and a lot of that wasn't political, but i think the same things go for activism. we all understand the feeling of urgency but that doesn't mean it's necessarily smart to get swept off your feet. believe it or not there is always some shitstorm or another blowing up and as time goes by your ideas about how to respond to it may change drastically - not to minimize or relativize the fact that we are probably close to full-on fascism , but i also think back to stuff like when the iraq war started and it felt to a lot of us like the world was literally ending and opposition from the left had totally crumbled; or for that matter, whether it was actually better when the machinery of global economic and ecological devastation (drone strikes, mass deportations, bail outs, the ever-declining wage and ever-warming planet) rumbled on under the smiling, "liberal" facade of the obama era? one thing i think is encouraging about the anti-ice momentum is that the democrats are chasing after it showing that opposition is going further left but then again the exact same thing happened with occupy and look how that ended up- i get that it sucks to not do anything but that doesn't mean do anything just to do something - you don't want to become the cannon fodder of tomorrow's "democratic socialist" bureaucrats like the anarchists in spain who got murdered by the communists....
