The climate activist blocked a port handling fossil fuels with a group of young activists in June.
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I think it’s worth addressing that “the right people” are very often going out of their way to be absolutely unreachable by the average joe and are completely impossible for mere poors to meaningfully bother directly. Protest will always inconvenience average people first, because the little people are always affected more than the rich in any action, especially any that would manage to rattle the powerful in any way.
The powerful have managed to structure society and laws alike to make effectively all actions that would target them directly and spare the average joe from any collateral overspill either impractical - or significantly more illegal than protest actions that cast a broader net. The idea from the powerful is to ensure that protest must affect other citizens in order to reach them, and can’t just target them directly. Targeting them, alone, is harassment, or trespass on private property, or … etc.
Yep. Protesting is just marketing. It is very effective when done well and backfires when done poorly. If you study the market and target audience properly, they’ll listen and join the cause.
Protests actually weren’t MLKs strongest tool, and he himself admits it. Getting arrested for doing something and then challenging it in court now that you have standing was his biggest tool. Most of the protests were just a means to get arrested. It’s revisionist history that says it was the protests specifically that worked because it’s better to emphasize the tactics that didnt work than to point out what actually did and risk a reoccurrence.
Let’s not forget the real villains: “Cutting oil and gas production would be “dangerous and irresponsible”, the head of energy company Shell told BBC News.”
Won’t someone think of the poor corporations!?
Police exist to protect capital from even the most basic inconvenience.
ACAB.
Greta is a true treasure and I’m always happy to see her in the news.
Go her. She’s doing very inspirational actions. Hopefully the courts see that.
How dare they.
Imagine worrying about climate change and not world hunger. The combines need gas dang it
Climate change is the biggest thread to food production. Food and water scarcity will be (and to some extend already are) among the very first noticable catastrophic effects of climate change.
Good.
