A large group of people protesting President Donald Trump’s illegal immigration policies blocked traffic on the Hollywood (101) Freeway in downtown Los Angeles Sunday. The protesters gathered Sunday morning on Olvera Street for what the Los Angeles Police Department called a non-permitted demonstration. The crowd grew to a few thousand people who marched to City […]
Boycotts won’t work, as the ruling class has far more capital to throw around than we do. Blocking freeways interrupts life for normal folks but does serve to make the issue visible and have some degree of impact on local commerce. Ultimately, though, I am starting to think that the most efficient means of resistance is to come up with a few more Luigis, since most other strategies have been rendered ineffective.
Boycotts won’t work, as the ruling class has far more capital to throw around than we do. Blocking freeways interrupts life for normal folks but does serve to make the issue visible and have some degree of impact on local commerce. Ultimately, though, I am starting to think that the most efficient means of resistance is to come up with a few more Luigis, since most other strategies have been rendered ineffective.
I knew about the LA protests before the reports of blocking freeways came out.
I gave them more respect until that. We don’t have to make it easy to vilify a cause.