No more business as usual," the organization leading the protest said on social media.
Dozens of Jewish protesters and their allies were arrested on Wednesday morning after they blocked rush hour traffic on a busy Los Angeles highway to demand a ceasefire in Israel’s war on Palestinians in Gaza.
I’m not really asking you to look it up or anything, but this gets parroted around a lot, and I wonder if there’s actually any data to really support it or if it’s just a statement that kinda sounds nice.
I mean maybe not data but it’s telling that almost every successful movement goes beyond the “quietly protest on the side of the road” step.
The data is the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Without mass protests nothing gets done in America
Ok but that’s in the place that the thing is happening and by the people affected.
Blocking a street in LA because two soverign nations on the other side of the world are at war with eachother doesn’t really make a lot of sense. America can’t just declare a ceasefire and enforce is, ok well I guess we could but the people asking for that are also the ones who think whine about “American Imperialism” so, pick a lane.
Also Hamas is, by their very charter, against ceasefires and Israel has tried it and then Hamas just starts shooting anyway.
The US could cut off aid, cut off relations altogether, or even sanction Israel. Each act would carry more weight and would force Israel to change course without a single American soldier present in the territory.
What does a non-disruptive protest even look like? The entire purpose of protest is to be disruptive, and every protest is disruptive in some way.
Adding a flag to your profile pic.
I wouldn’t consider that a form of protest personally. Just a way of expressing support.
This post itself provides a new data point as a piece of evidence to support that claim. There is a news article written about it, and we are talking about it.