Legal/approved protests and protest permits never made any sense to me man.
Same. Incredibly frustrating that the proletariat has allowed itself to be caged in such a way that we must even ask permission to dissent.
Truer words have never been written.
In Comic Sans.
I do think Just Stop Oil would be looked upon more fondly if they actually stopped oil, rather than people going about their day though.
They did manage to block access to an oil refinery a while ago though.
Edit:
$27,000 per day, for three weeks two people cost a coal mine. And no traffic was disrupted.
They would be looked upon more fondly if oil companies didn’t pay for a massive media campaign against them.
I’m all for bringing back eco terrorism though, but for now it looks like the best we get is stopping traffic for a few hours and throwing paint on glass covers. Better then nothing in any case.
Buddy, they’re funded by big oil.
One of their biggest backers is an oil heiress, who has supposedly had a change of heart about fossil fuels.
And their solution seems to be to fund an organisation that does a whole bunch of performative BS that doesn’t actually do anything to stop our use of fossil fuels.
They’re controlled opposition, make no mistake.
Stopping people from going about their day is a legitimate tactic. “No justice, no peace” and all that jazz.
It does generally require a much larger group with more sustained activity, though.
Yeah, but compare that to a group like Sea Shepherd, who will break onto a boat, open the sea chests, and sink her at her moorings.
I know which one I have more respect for.
Ukraine is doing some great climate activism, as russian oil refining capacity is down quite a bit ^^
The whole point of notifying the authorities is so they can plan emergency services around a disruption that would otherwise impede that service and have plans in place for a mass gathering.
It’s obviously not used for that, I wonder if we’ll see new forms of guerilla protesting before things get violent. Definitely ways to cause huge economic damage without massing or hurting people.
The British police can impose “conditions” on protests. When people protesting Israel’s starvation in Gaza wanted to bang pots and pans outside the Zionist embassy, the police said you can’t bang pots and pans. So the whole point of the protest was muted.
It’s just low key authoritarianism.
Damn I haven’t heard the term “po po” since 2019 (Hong Kong Protests). Hearing that term again reminds me of another era. Covid wasn’t even a thing yet.
Wait wtf, its been SIX FUCKING YEARS?!? And now the world got more autocratic? 🥲
Edit: Also, I remember in school (in the US) when they said that you need a permit to protest, I was just like wtf?!? at the time, and at that moment, I knew “freedom” was just another lie.
Fuck off bobby
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What’s all this then.
The Great Unwashed Masses have ONLY ever been able to protest at the patience of their government.
If any form of government decides they are too bothered by a protest, they WILL crack down and either jail you, (if you are lucky), or outright kill you to make the protests go away.
And this is why we arm ourselves and organize.
