Does protesting have any long term success?
Protesting is good a good short term option for raising awareness of an issue but without follow through, is it really effective as a tool of affecting long term change?
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Isn’t the Civil Rights Act a long term change? How about the United States of America?
Dunno, but I remember a TV prank where a number of people were able to collect many signatures on a petition to ’ End Female Suffrage’. I found great humor in that.
@Judi But there is a lot more than just protesting to those. Y’know, between the independence protests and the actual creation of the USA, there was a little bit of a war.
That depends on how many activists are protesting.
Anyway its irrelavant if your protesting against the ‘UNITED STATES OF AMERICA’ as it is a fictional legal entity, not a geographical area. ‘Civil Rights Acts’ are irrelavant because the system creates ‘Acts’ for PERSONS (also legal fictional entities aka corporations)
Just stop ‘Acting’ as a PERSON and you’l be free from your legal obligations to the STATE. Human beings (flesh and blood) are free in a common law juristiction.
Ask Lech Walesa, or Vaclav Havel.
I’ll have whatever @Pazza‘s having. Seems like some good stuff.
@Judi There was a certain amount of follow through that made those examples successful.
Any protest is done with the hope that there will be follow through. Protests are generally to raise awareness about an issue. So the specific protests (Rosa Parks refusing to sit at the back of the bus, let’s say) are part of the full movement. You don’t have the movement without the protests.
So protesting doesn’t always have long term success, but sometimes it does. And you get women voting or equal rights or whatever else.
@The_Compassionate_Heretic ; Doesn’t protest usually precede follow through? Otherwise you wouldn’t have anything to follow through with.
@Judi Most protests have no follow through. A movement is a more concentrated effort in achieving a particular political goal.
Movements require a lot of hard work. Sometimes it involves waiting in line to speak with a public official or writing up paperwork or collecting signatures, calling media outlets, dealing with bureaucracy and other such activities.
@Pazza Thanks for posting the link, I’m going to watch it later. I like Naomi Wolf.
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Please don’t have nightmares after watching the video!
I don’t think a protest is meant to have direct action as a result most of the time. A protest is more to raise awareness and bring attention to a subject. And judging by reactions to protests (both positive and negative), they do that.
Nov. 17 is the 20th anniversary of the student protests in Czechoslovakia, which brought down the Communist government and led to the separation of the two countries. You picked an interesting time to ask this.
Look at the African Americans, all the way from the slave ships revolts to Booker T. Washington and Martin Luther King and Colin Powell and Barack Obama.
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