Good question. I think a lot of people are out of work with too much time and too little power and without an understanding that there are other avenues to power and change than protest.
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Protests are an effective tactic if they are connected to a demand in place and time or in response to a specific event. Protests for the sake of protest become a joke. For example, it used to be a regular thing for this group of enviros to march through downtown on Fridays
It was incredibly ineffective and unimportant. We'd hear drumming and think, there they go again. They didn't make a demand, they didn't go to the federal building to demand something on timber policy or anything, just marched and drummed through downtown
They got no coverage, though I suppose if they did property damage they would have. I guess that's why today's eco-anarchists do so much vandalism, to get some news coverage that gives them a false sense of power.
They lack seriousness. If they were serious, they would have a demand, they would have a target, they would have more than a tactic. That tactic would be part of a strategy to achieve some wins for their community.
But do they have a community that is beyond the "protest community" they have created? Do they have larger goals than creating a ruckus?
I get the feeling they imagine a better world, but they don't express any sense they can achieve it.
I get the feeling they imagine a better world, but they don't express any sense they can achieve it.
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