Protests won’t fix it, in themselves. But it’s important to show up because that shows people they’re not alone in resisting this. A big protest encourages, emboldens and connects people. It’s one of the steps towards building an effective resistance movement. If everyone says “it won’t help, so I won’t go” then the movement can’t get off the ground.
Protests are good to demonstrate a movement has real numbers, but don’t just go to one to stand there. It’s a great place to find political organizations which can work to create actual change.
Yeah… It’s too bad that the government doesn’t have some sort of checks and balances…
Tho there are protests scheduled for tomorrow at your state capitol. But idk that’ll help. A
Protests won’t fix it, in themselves. But it’s important to show up because that shows people they’re not alone in resisting this. A big protest encourages, emboldens and connects people. It’s one of the steps towards building an effective resistance movement. If everyone says “it won’t help, so I won’t go” then the movement can’t get off the ground.
Protests are good to demonstrate a movement has real numbers, but don’t just go to one to stand there. It’s a great place to find political organizations which can work to create actual change.