Monday, January 20, 2025

Are mass protests demanding change losing their punch?

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/20/trump-activists-mass-protest

 

“The march itself is not the end game,” said Tamika Middleton, Managing Director of Women’s March. “The march itself is a tool, is a mechanism to bring more folks into the movement and get more folks engaged.”

 

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I've been both a participant and an organizer of many protests.  A few years ago I started wondering whether the ways we used to look at protesting might just be outdated.  The Internet, for instance, opened up as a new way to reach people about an issue.  I have had several web sites, for instance, freely giving out information and documentation to anyone with a computer.  There is such a divers and prolific amount of information in the world nowadays, it's difficult to concentrate like-minded people into one day's and one place's activity.  

So for now, this is still something I'm pondering.  If not protests, then what?  Youtube videos?  Lots of blogging?  I don't know.

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