De-Escalation Keeps Protesters and Police Safer

Re:De-Escalation Keeps Protesters and Police Safer by kortilla on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @04:49AM (#23389043)

Occupy Wall Street was not meant with violence and it was huge headline grabbing protests that went on for weeks. It didn’t do anything meaningful.

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Re:De-Escalation Keeps Protesters and Police Safer by jpster on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @08:56AM (#23390470)

IMO the media was not talking about income & wealth inequality before OWS. OWS forced it on the agenda and changed the very language we use to describe it: “the 99% vs the 1%”. That’s a big deal.

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Re:De-Escalation Keeps Protesters and Police Safer by mcv on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @09:57AM (#23391026)

I'd say it raised a lot of awareness, which is exactly what protests are for. Protests don't create laws, they raise awareness. Based on that awareness, people vote and change laws.

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Re:De-Escalation Keeps Protesters and Police Safer by virgil_disgr4ce on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @09:06AM (#23390555)

> It didn’t do anything meaningful

How do you know? Do you have an alternate timeline of history to compare it to?

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Re:De-Escalation Keeps Protesters and Police Safer by kortilla on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @02:09AM (#23400375)

Well none of the things the protesters wanted (broken up banks, more taxes for the rich, arrested bank execs, more social entitlements, etc) came to fruition.

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