I think there’s something very frustrating about how so many activist events, like the haka in the New Zealand parliament, are brushed off as spontaneous acts of passion instead of carefully planned and coordinated efforts. I see it a lot of with indigenous activists especially, and it feels like a lot of people lean on that idea because they like the romantic idea of activism being spontaneous passion but it’s incredibly infantalizing to ignore the efforts that these activists and protestors and politicians put into making these things happen, making their voices heard and preparing their communities and allies to stand as a united front when it’s time.
One of the things that isn’t being reported internationally is that there’s a hīkoi (protest march) of over 10,000 people currently on its way to the Aotearoa New Zealand parliament and it was set to arrive on the day of the bill’s first reading. The government moved the reading sooner to avoid this, which is incredibly cowardly and disrespectful to the Māori people opposing it. One thing that Hana-Rāwhiti Maipi-Clarke’s haka did was communicate that the government can’t just dodge Māori opposition like that and expect to get away with it. I would bet she’d been thinking of doing that or something like it from the moment the date got changed; she’s an incredibly adept political thinker with excellent mentorship.
Another way that the view of activism being spontaneous is used for racism is to paint it as suspicious that indigenous (or other marginalised) activists support and mentor each other. There’s been some media hit-pieces against the leaders of Toitū Te Tiriti for being relatives of Te Pāti Māori MPs or other well-known Māori activists, when if you have two non-racist brain cells to rub together of COURSE people in the same families are going to help and mentor each other? Nobody bats an eye when it’s white people doing nepotism, but when Māori do anything that looks planned or coordinated suddenly it’s suspicious 🙄
I’ve also seen complaints about the hīkoi being ‘orchestrated’ like, duh, you don’t get tens of thousands of people protesting at the same time and place without some organisation, which I think is the word you were looking for. Literally all pre-announced big protests like this have a high degree of organisation, that’s what makes them successful.