Keeping protests peaceful
Is terribly difficult because a few people can screw up an otherwise overwhelmingly peaceful affair. But to say that these few can cancel out the 1st Amendment rights of everyone else makes no sense either.
Is terribly difficult because a few people can screw up an otherwise overwhelmingly peaceful affair. But to say that these few can cancel out the 1st Amendment rights of everyone else makes no sense either.
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Ben kindle
I’d love a guide on how to be effective in a protest. I want to fight back, but it’s hard to imagine a congressman changing his vote because a big crowd showed up in a city. It also seems to easy for a protest to backfire when someone finds one pic of a car on fire and calls it a riot.
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'When state actors refer to “peace,” they are really talking about order. And when they refer to “peaceful protest,” they are talking about cooperative protest that obediently stays within the lines drawn by the state.'
Kelly Hayes, Let This Radicalize You
Would your advice to American protestors against fascism match your advice to protestors in Hong Kong in 2019-20, or in Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, etc now?
We know they are coming for our neighbors. We are generally aware of context.
Optics are hugely important though. Not enough attention is paid to that.