I think some protest tactics like blocking walkways hurt more than help progressive causes.

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67. And who is telling you that this is not happening?

People do move out of the way for ambulances running code. People open the way for handicapped folks. You are actually going, returning to what I told you about media and image management, to what you have seen published by large media.

It is like Occupy camps that were full of druggies, getting high, and rapes. except they were not. They were raucous places, at times not that clean, because keeping the plaza clean when you have 1000 people living on it can be a challenge. But they were not full of violence, or drugs, or anything like that. Of all the things media told you, the "my god they are attracting the homeless" is true. But when you feed homeless, it tends to attract homeless.

The media plays this role as well, their job is to slam on the social justice movement, until it is cool and profitable, to tell you another story of the movement, insert movement here. This is not Cronkyte's CBS. A lot of this false reporting is first posted in places like Breitbart.com, again I have seen that. Then it is picked up by a middling local network, and off to the races we go, since it is removed from Breitbart by at least one degree.

This happens regularly. Of course, my local activists these days KNOW who the breitbart guy\gal are and not just not talk to them, they have been asked to leave.

You are all for LGBT righs... please think back to how a certain group of riots were presented by media in the 1980s, or AIDS for that matter, the gay disease. It is the last 10 years when media switched how they are presenting this, because in spite of their best dang efforts, people are starting to get it. And they are starting to get it after we had more than just some nice coffee discussions in the upper East Side of NYC.

Before that, you had a lot of work, and quite a bit involved inconveniencing people.