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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • I have grown up pretty much my entire life hearing and thinking that protests are the way to bring about change, but everyone conveniently leaves out the fact that you have to build that political movement too.

    People want to show up for a protest and be done, many people don’t want to do the work to be an activist and work for change, and honestly I don’t blame them.

    Hell I know people who went to BLM protests, Palestine protests and pro choice protests… But don’t vote, so sorry if I seem overly critical of protesting. I’m just sick of prevalent idea that it’s all you need to do.


  • No, not really. One of the great america propagandizing myths is that protests are effective. They’re not, they can easily be ignored. What does work is organized strikes and planned disruptions of key targets with protests.

    In certain forms, or in conjunction with other forms of activism it can still work. For example tree sit ins to prevent logging.

    Occupy wall street, BLM, the protests when Row v Wade were overturned all largely accomplished nothing on their own.