Fully support this and hope lots of people show up.
IMO we'll never get off the back foot by only protesting. We need to channel this frustration in to electoral participation. Not just voting; running and supporting new candidates.
Especially not a protest on a saturday. Effective protests have to cause disruption, which often means sacrafice on the protesters side in terms of missing work and potential charges, usually misdemeanor stuff like trespassing or obstructing infrastructure.
Good point. Explains why the french spew manure on the legislature. Gotta call people in on their day off to clean that shit.
I'm beginning to understand that protesting is just a way of raising a flag to let other people know that there's a flag to follow. While some of the most famous protests led to change almost directly, the real value is that it's providing a signpost for collective action. It may take many signposts to get to the destination, it may be a long journey, but we have to start somewhere, and we should lay signposts as we go so others can follow.
IMO when protesting becomes a substitute for civic engagement it relegates us to being reactive instead of proactive. Which means we're committing to perpetually pushing back instead of legislating forward.
I don't think we can look at the civil rights movement or the rise of unions and just assume that since protesting worked 100 years ago, it will work today.
Like for us to conclusively say the US No Kings protests had a material effect we'll need to see the GOP lose BIG in November's Midterms.
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