Thread by @ProfColinDavis

🧵Tens of thousands of people have been out on the streets of London since Friday, calling for #ClimateAction.

@morss_alex has been monitoring media coverage.

If you get your news from TV, broadsheets or tabloids, chances are you won't have heard anything about #TheBigOne.

https://twitter.com/morss_alex/status/1650102068634419201

But although you didn't hear about the tens of thousands of people protesting in London, chances are that you did hear about that one guy who jumped on a #snooker table in Sheffield.

None of this remotely surprising. It's yet another example of the #ActivistsDilemma in action.

When non-activists criticise groups like JSO for engaging in disruptive protest it's common for them to say they don't mind protest if it's done in a way that doesn't affect people going about their business. That's what activists have been doing this weekend. It doesn't work.

My hope is that the many people who are out on the streets for the first time this weekend will benefit from firsthand experience of taking part in a giant protest only to get home and realise that their friends and neighbours were entirely unaware of it. MPs weren't listening.

The point of this is not to suggest that protest doesn't work (though that's often true).

Protest can succeed, but that's most likely where there are lots of people doing things that can't be ignored: mass #CivilDisobedience.

When that happens, government may listen.

For more on disruptive protest, check out this article I wrote for the @ConversationUK theconversation.com/just-stop-oil-… and this short film that @berglund_oscar made with support from the @cabotinstitute

But also ...

https://twitter.com/ProfColinDavis/status/1650206113537855488?s=20