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.
Shit man even in the internet I’ve maybe heard 3 other people mention PSL, not all that many, not all that grouped together, and thus not all gonna be able to come together to help out large communities consistently (especially those you’re talking about DAILY and at the same time and for free. That’s just an unpaid job. Hard to get people to do that cuz people gotta live.) Doing activities people are interested in participating in or getting people together for a protest on occasion are WAAAAAY easier than having a consistent set of volunteers who are willing to continually give up their free time to their communities. Especially if those are people who may already be doing so in other ways.
I suppose they could take donations and use those to pay people to do so, but that’s barely “free” especially in a party that’s very small.