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Just Stop Oil protestors interrupt UK’s biggest games event EGX (www.videogameschronicle.com)
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[-] ShitOnABrick@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

But disrupting a major event/traffic or atempting to destroy a priced piece of art with soup out of all things makes you and your organisation look like a massive pile of shit there are way way way better ways of protesting such as picketing as you said or rallys if you bring enough people say 200 or 300 you'll appear on the social media and prehaps local and regional news prehaps if you make a large enough splash you might sway the general public to your cause

[-] BirdyBoogleBop@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 year ago

You don't. Protests happen all the time in the hundreds. How many have you heard of? I haven't heard of any unless it gets violent. Unions strikes are disruptive so you hear about them. Cost of living marches walking past government buildings or protesting outside of them? Nothing.

Want to know the last march I heard about that was large and non disruptive? It was on a Youtube video. The youtubers didn't even know it was happening.

Blocking a road is boring now so isn't being reported as much, disrupting a gaming tournament gets news.

Rallies help don't get me wrong but they are often ignored. The disruptive, novel protests get news coverage.

[-] ShitOnABrick@lemmy.world -4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

plenty of protests have happened through history. Some have been more successful than examples being Marton Luther Kings rallies woman suffrage movements the salt march singing revolution plus with the world of the Internet if you make a large enough rucus you'll have eyes and ears on you from across the world

[-] BirdyBoogleBop@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 year ago

Okay lets take the civil rights movement. Incredibly disruptive and even violent at times, albeit usually in response to violence. Rosa Parks for example sat on the front of a bus and got arrested. She didn't move. She stopped a bus and all the passengers on the bus until she was arrested, nobody critisises her because some people were late that day!

Highschollers trying to desegregate school needed armed guards to just get in the building. They didn't go "dang! Best hold up a sign outside, don't want to stop others learning"

Many performed sit-ins. Sit-ins take up space and make it hard for others to use the space for its intended purpose.

They were very disruptive and people hated them for it. It wasn't only speeches and marches.

Women sufferage involved arson, women learning martial arts and beating people up, vandalism, and sex boycots, once again not just speeches and marches.

[-] Haui@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 year ago

But pwease pwotest quieter! We twying to be ignowant in peace!

[-] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

When did anyone destroy art with soup?

[-] BirdyBoogleBop@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 year ago

Just Stop Oil threw soup on artwork in a museum. It wasn't destroyed all the souped art had protective glass shields and they knew that which is why they did it. Basically just made a mess that you can clean up with a cloth and mop.

They've souped quite a few artworks before.

[-] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

Well that's the opposite of an answer to my question, it's an example of a time they didn't destroy art with soup

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