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In reply to the discussion: For your consideration: When is a protest more than just a protest? [View all]snot
(10,555 posts)48. Excellent analysis of protest tactics:
Pulitzer-winning former NYT Middle East Bureau chief Chris Hedges interviews Vincent Bevins, former foreign correspondent for the LA Times and WaPo, and author of If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution, re- how leftist uprisings are crushed: https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-chris-hedges-report-with-vincent?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2
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i was at the same march in 03. w my bff, a fallen away catholic w a jewish hubs. some assholes
mopinko
May 2
#16
A protest that does NOT devolve into violence requires organization and leadership
The Mouth
May 2
#33
Social media makes it easy for bad actors, zealots, and extremists to show up and derail your protest no matter how
FSogol
May 2
#8
"Promoting violence against fellow students because they're Jewish. Trashing university facilities."
Cha
May 2
#35
Most of the civ il rights/anti-war protests I went to were peaceful until the very un peaceful
Ping Tung
May 2
#5
Are you too young to remember the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp of the 1980s?
muriel_volestrangler
May 2
#10
If we'd bring back the soapbox we wouldn't have these dilemmas. After all, it only supports one protester at a time ...
littlemissmartypants
May 2
#11
Gandhi had his hands full! He had to deal with Nehru and Jinnah in addition to the Brits.
LeftInTX
May 2
#24
Yes, but they knew their cause was more important. "I may not make it there with you."
surfered
May 2
#39