Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-216 days agoIraq War was preceded by the largest worldwide non-violent protests in history and the war happened anyway.lemmy.blahaj.zoneexternal-linkmessage-square138fedilinkarrow-up11.54Karrow-down127file-text
arrow-up11.51Karrow-down1external-linkIraq War was preceded by the largest worldwide non-violent protests in history and the war happened anyway.lemmy.blahaj.zoneSnot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-216 days agomessage-square138fedilinkfile-text
Those non-violent protests shook them so bad they wanted to charge non-violent Quaker protestors with terrorism.
minus-squareContinueToServe@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·15 days agoPartially because “peaceful” and the definition of what would or would not be accepted as valid protest became co-opted by the management/ ivy league class. Compare the Seattle WTO protests to the 2003-2005 Iraq protests.
Partially because “peaceful” and the definition of what would or would not be accepted as valid protest became co-opted by the management/ ivy league class.
Compare the Seattle WTO protests to the 2003-2005 Iraq protests.