@[email protected]M to collapse of the old [email protected] • 1 month agoRepression of climate and environmental protest is intensifying across the worldtheconversation.comexternal-linkmessage-square6fedilinkarrow-up188arrow-down10cross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish14•edit-21 month agoAll successful, meaningful, peaceful movements have had violent allies, or allies who were threatening violence.
minus-squaremetaStaticlinkfedilink12•1 month agoA protest without the threat of escalation is no protest at all.
minus-square@AnticorplinkEnglish4•1 month agoI suppose that’s a good point. Like MLK Jr. was proposing a peaceful resolution to inequality, and the alternative was Malcolm X, the Nation of Islam, and the Black Panthers. I doubt MLK would have been as effective without those counterparts.
That’s what peaceful protests result in.
All successful, meaningful, peaceful movements have had violent allies, or allies who were threatening violence.
A protest without the threat of escalation is no protest at all.
I suppose that’s a good point. Like MLK Jr. was proposing a peaceful resolution to inequality, and the alternative was Malcolm X, the Nation of Islam, and the Black Panthers. I doubt MLK would have been as effective without those counterparts.