@[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.
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.