LAPD called the demonstration “non-permitted,”
That’s entirely the point, you goose-stepping morons. SMH.
Yup, “designated protest zones” with a permit were designed to preserve the illusion of protest while removing the efficacy in the wake of the civil rights movement, removing protest from the eyelines, profit operations, and governmental operation of those being protested.
If a protest isn’t disruptive, it’s masturbation. Might feel good, but it won’t do shit.
Just as with our American free speech, it’s been neutered into not mattering, and it will be silenced on for profit media and buried/quieted on for profit social media if it’s an opinion the oligarchs don’t want to be spread, just like Luigi when they realized nothing they could propagandize using their for profit bully pulpits would turn our crony capitalist beaten citizenry against him.
If a protest isn’t disruptive, …
TIL I don’t have a problem, I’m just a chronically bad protestor.
Americans: look at LA and see what they are doing. these are your brothers and sisters. they know what’s at stake. they are pushing back
Yeah ok but LA didn’t even vote for these Fascists to begin with, so the effectiveness is pretty limited as far as possitive political outcomes.
Under Trump’s new orders, ICE is now allowed to target migrants at sensitive locations, like schools and churches, for arrests and potential deportations.
And FUCKING HOSPITALS. And quizzing people about their immigration status when they seek help for a medical emergency.
It would have taken fewer words to just not excise hospitals from your partial list of “sensitive locations,” but I can see why you wouldn’t want to talk about it. It’s real fucked up.
And at large protests…
This is what allies are for.
This is what guns are for.
If you want for the police to get an excuse to mow you down with a tank that is. They so wish some of you have guns so they can kill you and have a ready and ironclad excuse
All they need is one agent provocateur for that, then.
One agent in a crowd of unarmed people will not cause that effect. But if everyone is on edge and carrying a gun, then yes, one will be enough to cause full blown massacre.
One agent in a crowd of unarmed people will not cause that effect.
It will if police are present and are looking for an excuse to violently quash protest.
It’s not like they’re above shooting unarmed protestors. Just compare how cops dealt with cop city with the Bundy occupation.
But that’s the thing. Shooting unarmed protestors is fucked up even by their standards, they aren’t above it, but they have to hide it and not everyone is having a good time about it, so there is tension and hesitation.
Shooting armed protestors is why they joined in the first place, it’s what they dream of, it’s everything that a cop ever wanted.
And a big portion of population that is not OK with the first scenario is also dreaming of the second one.
Time for a national strike/shutdown.
Sorry how would that help us? GOP already destroying industry and dismantling government services, I’m not going to help the GOP.
Haven’t you noticed that many “industries” are actively working to dismantle government? This isn’t like dynamiting a pond to obtain a fish for dinner. You select your targets. You shift your buying to non-corporate entities., like a National Black Farmer near you. You use a bike instead of a car, when you can. You prepare your own food instead of going to McDonalds. You slow down at work. You develop a like-minded community and help your neighbors. You grow a garden. Maybe you start your own business.
Yes, businesses and government ideally are naturally opposed, which is why a general strike in context of a US political protest does fuck all.
You won’t just hurt all the bad people, you will hurt the good people as well. Some people will die when certain supply chains get disrupted but I guess thats a sacrifice you’re willing to make.
Great choice . I’ll know it’s real when the National Guard gets called in.
