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Re:Prices at the supermarket keep rising. So do corporate pr... by gruez on Saturday March 18, 2023 @09:05PM (#35214892)

>There's a difference between rolling into town for a day or three and disrupting things to get noticed, and setting up residency for weeks. There are limits to protests and free speech.

Again, I'm not arguing for unlimited protests, I'm simply expressing skepticism that people are consistently applying their standards for "protests that aren't okay and we should get the cops to crack down on". Based on your responses it seems like you agree that some level of illegality should be allowed, but draw the line at "a day or three". Was this arrived at a principled way? How do you feel about the following protests, which probably lasted more than that?

* Cop City protests in Georgia

* George Floyd protests in the Minneapolis area

* Capitol Hill Occupied Protest

* Hong Kong protests

* Occupy Wall St

* 1989 Tiananmen Square protests

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Re:Prices at the supermarket keep rising. So do corporate pr... by throw0101b on Sunday March 19, 2023 @04:44PM (#35223371)

Go read Chenowith's book:

* https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/44096650

Effective and non-effective tactics—as determined by the historical record of >600 movements over the last 120 years—are discussed, as are all of the above events.

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