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405 Freeway: Gaza protesters block traffic in West Los Angeles (www.foxla.com)

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

This is nonviolent civil disobedience to protect the financial support of an ongoing genocide. Acting like this isn't a valid form of protest or that the BDS movement have "no idea what's involved" when putting pressure on corporations and institutions to Divest is ridiculous.

These kind of protests do put pressure and bring the issue to the forefront of the local and state administrative bodies. The BDS movement was successful in the divestment of Apartheid South Africa, this isn't too different

“Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue,” King wrote. “It seeks so to dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored.”

MLK Jr. on the nature of nonviolent protests

[–] [email protected] -5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

MLK protested where the offenses were actually happening. That's why they were effective.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

Yeah dude, that's why the anti-apartheid protests and BDS movement in the United States were so unsuccessful and not effective when it came to South Africa

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

The offenses are actually happening in the US, too. That's where the voters voting for genocide enablers are located, that are sending all the bombs to Gaza to blow up schools and hospitals.