- Svartvit
- Jun 18, 2005
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al-Qabila samaa Bahth
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Would`nt it be more efficent to protest in the areas where Drumpf won? They are the People who deserve to get their lives disturbed and made to feel a degree of shame,, not the loyal liberals of New York, DC,SF etc who strongly rejected him.
This does not make sense.
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- Svartvit
- Jun 18, 2005
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al-Qabila samaa Bahth
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I was just in Greece and watched one of their job protests first hand. It was very well organised, grouped people by dress (suit, business casual, casual, political dress, exc) and age (very old all the way to small children). They all chanted the same message, started exactly at 6PM, and followed the predefined route with police escort the entire way and all roads were blocked off hours in advance by the police. So no motor traffic.
Overall, as someone from the outside looking in, it was very professional. They were very organized, didn't throw slurs or break stuff, and the grouping by age and attire really emphasised that this was a community effort and not some hurt feelings group. And the grouping really shoved it in everyone's face without being obnoxious about it. It added a lot of legitimacy and I didn't even know what they were protested for or what they were saying. But their actions got me interested enough to go ask some locals about the protest. After finding out what it was about the visual message they were sending resonated even more with their cause because it helped emphasize that they were protesting for a community problem and the way it was organized showed that all areas of the community supported finding a solution. I was impressed.
Your take away on this should be that a strong visual picture can and will sway openions before even the first word is heard. Having people dressed in suits (even goodwill ones) and business casual (slacks and a button up or polo), is a force multiplier because it shows that the entire community is there in support. If you need to run a donation box, then do it. Your goal is to get your message heard in a positive light; formal well planned out, polite, protests with pre approved routes, and police escort will take you further than a group of ragtag people holding signs of profanity and that Drumpf = Nazis. Rioting is unacceptable and should never happen. You should be ready to formally cancel the protest if it turns to destruction and violence. But these aren't new tactics. MLK Jr used this exact format during his walks. Just because you don't like suits doesn't mean you can't use them like a tool to further your goals.
As "someone from the outside looking in", who followed the protests in LA live, they were meek and uneventful. Compared to Greece it was like watching a kindergarten excursion. I'm pretty sure that I at one point saw hundreds of people standing around a police officer, listening to him talk. Wowzers! What happened to US protest culture?
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