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Re:NY Man Arrested for Cutting Wires to Red Light Cameras (2... by samstave on Monday October 29, 2018 @05:29PM (#18331691)
Exactly! Panama papers, koshoggi murder, arab spring, occupy movement, etc. there is a ton of light shone upon corruption. The problem is that the light does nothing to eliminate the flow of money being made from said corruption and thus that money is used to quash oppress and extinguish the light.

Id say the most successful attempt in the US was the OWS movement, given how quickly it was brought down.

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Re:NY Man Arrested for Cutting Wires to Red Light Cameras (2... by rch on Monday October 29, 2018 @06:12PM (#18332053)
I don't think OWS reached anywhere close to the level of influence that the WUO/SDS movement had.
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Re:NY Man Arrested for Cutting Wires to Red Light Cameras (2... by samstave on Monday October 29, 2018 @06:32PM (#18332213)
What was WUO/SDS?

But occupy had the feds working with local LEOs with a supposed "kill list" to "take out leadership.

They remodeled the front steps of the SF fed reserve due to them, and we're working with Oakland pd on how to deal with the protests and wound up planting agent provacatuers in the midsts to foment vandalism and sway public opinion against ows.

But I am not familiar with what the ones you mentioned accomplished with respect to influence. Interested to know.

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Re:NY Man Arrested for Cutting Wires to Red Light Cameras (2... by rch on Monday October 29, 2018 @08:53PM (#18333113)
> The Weather Underground Organization (WUO)... was a radical left-wing militant organization founded on the Ann Arbor campus of the University of Michigan ... Weatherman organized in 1969 as a faction of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS).

-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_Underground

There are a number of books about the group (some by former members) that are worth reading, and there's also a documentary:

-- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0343168/

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