Peter Link@lemmy.ml to politics @lemmy.world · 1 month ago'No Kings!' 8 Million Rally Against Trump in Largest Single-Day Protest in US History | Common Dreamswww.commondreams.orgexternal-linkmessage-square147linkfedilinkarrow-up1778arrow-down13 cross-posted to: pravda_news@news.abolish.capitalusa@midwest.socialprogressivepolitics@lemmy.worldusa@lemmy.mlusa@lemmy.mllefty_news@ibbit.at
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minus-squareMulligrubs@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 month agoPeaceful protests aren’t enough. Diversified tactics are necessary in my opinion; for example, it wasn’t MLKs peaceful marches alone; the Black Panthers were a necessary part of the civil rights movement. Fear goes both ways, the state doesn’t have a monopoly on it.
minus-squareamorangi@lemmy.nzlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 month agoIf peaceful protests worked then the US military would be holding hands on the Iranian border singing Kumbayah.
Peaceful protests aren’t enough.
Diversified tactics are necessary in my opinion; for example, it wasn’t MLKs peaceful marches alone; the Black Panthers were a necessary part of the civil rights movement.
Fear goes both ways, the state doesn’t have a monopoly on it.
If peaceful protests worked then the US military would be holding hands on the Iranian border singing Kumbayah.