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Originally Posted by Hasbinbad [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

So what you're suggesting is that we stand there like idiots with signs while people with power ignore us?

That is what hasn't worked since bloody thursday.

Nothing has ever been changed by people with signs. All major civil rights movements have had an element of struggle attached to them that made the people impossible to ignore. With women, men not getting laid by their wives nipped that shit in the bud quick. With Racism, it took an old black woman breaking the law on a bus to kick start the whole deal, and then several major black leaders went to jail and were killed before any real progress was made. The gay rights movement has probably had the easiest time as far as protests go, but they have a hundred years of straight up hate crimes to put wind in their sails. Nothing changed the Vietnam war until the people in power decided it was to end, because the hippies were - by and large - not willing to go to phase 2, and were distracted by drugs.

What can we do in this world that will force them to stop economically raping us besides what we are doing? Standing there with a sign isn't doing it bro. We're open to suggestions.

Also, it is hardly equitable to ask us to keep strictly within the bounds of the law, when those laws are corrupt in the first place, and they do things like vote in the senate for the ability to suspend habeus corpus in this country at will. When they do things like unleash less lethal weapons on peaceful protestors. When they do things like enforce illegal foreclosures on the working poor and the middle class. When they do things like send big dumb jocks in official uniforms to club legally and peacefully protesting tiny female UC Berkeley students in the gut at full force when there were at least ten other tactical options to achieve the same effect in a non-violent way. When the police break the law, what are we supposed to do?

This is not Oceania. You don't belong to the Inner Party. This is not double plus good.

Heres a sign that changed , and had things change. I figured it was something you yourself help change
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