“A caravan of vehicles blocked inbound lanes on Airport Way to protest the conflict in Gaza on Monday afternoon, the Port of Portland reports.”
“A caravan of vehicles blocked inbound lanes on Airport Way to protest the conflict in Gaza on Monday afternoon, the Port of Portland reports.”
Here is one great example, of many.
and then on the “Day of Desperation” when ACT UP protested against the first Gulf war by occupying Grand Central Station and interrupting television news programmes, chanting: “Fight Aids, not Arabs.”
We would then do non-violent creative direct action, to communicate through the media (not to the media) to pressure the institutions to change.
Although you don’t really have to look any farther than MLK Jr. and the civil rights movement. It’s really sad how quickly Americans forget history, often willingly.
And where did MLK do his protests? In progressive cities without Jim Crow laws or right in the south and in Washington where the people who could actually effect change lived and worked. That’s the point I’m making, not that protesting isn’t effective, but it has to be done with real intent. The impact to businesses here in Portland because random people were prevented from making flights isn’t even remotely close to the level of organization and impact MLK had with his protests. What happened here was performative, not effective.