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If You Were Wondering Why Protest Coverage Seems Fairly Muted, NPR's Public Editor Confirms This is Intentional (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml to c/50501@piefed.social

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https://www.threads.net/@nprpubliceditor/post/DIhOEQQOyqP

EDIT: Also worth noting that the next nationwide protest date for 50501 is May 1st

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[–] shawn1122@lemm.ee 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Protests that block key roadways are generally not received well. People are often mad that they're inconvenienced and will use moral arguments regarding potential disruption of emergency services.

At least with strikes, most of who you're fucking over is your boss and not the people you're trying to have side with you.

[–] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days ago

Blocking roads is not the only method of disruptive protest. There are a lot more options than that. Everything from sit-ins to much more creative disruptions

For instance, one technique that animal rights activists have successfully used before is gluing hands to tables to protest various things. May sound silly, but it gets outsized attention on both traditional and social media. For instance, it's been a factor to help get over 330 coffee chains to drop their non-dairy milk upcharge (including some major ones like Starbucks, Dunkin, Tim Hortons, etc.)