Are there no effective peaceful protests in the Netherlands?
RainbowHedgehog
joined 3 months ago
Why does everyone not see anything in the Women’s March? It was a massively effective recruiting drive. Indivisible got a lot of members from the Women’s March. Indivisible has been extremely effective against Trump during his first term. They’ve been organizing for ten years.
This is why the majority of people buying and donating bus tickets for the April 5th protest are all women.
Things should be kicking up in the summer. That’s when the recession is supposed to hit.
Occupy Wall Street inspired the movement towards a $15/hr minimum wage and educated people about income inequality. So it didn’t do anything flashy, but it wasn’t useless.
I’m a millenial/Gen Z. I was really surprised to find out that I was one of the youngest in my protest group. A lot of people told me they were protesting for their grandkids. They also expressed regret that my generation would have to deal with the fallout of this.
Also, do we know that millennials are protesting less than other generations? My protests seem to be pretty age-diverse. They seem to match up with the generation percentages of the population at large. People might just be used to seeing mainly young people at protests.
Legally, you need a permit to march on the roads. Past protests have marched on the roads, though. One 50501 protest even got carried away and tried to march on the highway, but then they were stopped by older protesters. My protests get carried away and we wander into the roads. Peacekeepers have to direct us back to the sidewalks.
I will say that my state’s 50501 protest always manages to clog up the road even though we don’t intentionally block it.
Most of the drivers are on our side. They will slow down to wave to us or take a video. People going back and forth keeps slowing down traffic. Cars will keep going back in the car line to honk again.
Would it be better to clog up the road completely? I don’t know. All I know is that it seems to be on purpose that people stay on the sidewalks.
It looks like the little symbol on milk cartons from school.
I’m going to People’s Veto Day! It will be an 8 hour bus ride there. I was worried our bus would be cancelled but we managed to find people to go!
My dad is going with me. I feel kind of guilty about that because he is going mainly because he wants me safe.
I mean yes… but also no. People are protesting, and we definitely are seeing growth. I believe we are on the right track. Even Erica Chenoweth seems to think so. The issue is that we aren’t to the level we need to be yet. Unfortunately, that’s going to take time.
We lack a lack of culture of mass protest. That along with transportation issues, infighting, and with many people in a state of shock. It’s also only been two months. No mass movement in the US has ever formed within that timeframe.
There’s a lot to be optimistic about though. I find it inspiring seeing all these groups organize resources and people for the April 5th protest. It’s a huge undertaking to move that many people there. Seeing the massive organizational effort behind it is inspiring and a good sign for the future.
There are lots. I use Mlem. But there’s also Voyager, Thunder, and others.
The way they worded it, the event like it happened a while ago.
I use Flashes. Its on ATProto.