Comment 42613

By Undustrial (registered) - website | Posted June 29, 2010 at 21:17:45

Why do you think protesting is the only thing protesters do. There's only a G8 summit, WTO meeting or other such farce every couple years, and usually not in the area. We haven't really seen anything like this since Quebec City.

I agree that there are much better means of getting your word across (ever hear of Food Not Bombs?). Anarchists are doing them every single day. I could start naming off community centres, gardens, libraries, co-op businesses, charities and the like till the sun comes up tomorrow morning. The thing is, THEY DO NOT MAKE THE NEWS. And when they do, there is virtually no mention of anarchism, even if it's one of the first things on the mind of everyone involved.

The fact that there are OTHER valuable means of social and political action (which clearly have failed to catch your notice so far) does not mean that protests are not useful or necessary for social change. And historically, protests have almost never been exclusively nonviolent (certainly not in Gandhi's India or MLK's America). I'll never forget mid-day, October 16th, 2001, when after a morning of rowdy protests in the Toronto financial district we got news that Mike Harris had officially stepped down and over a thousand people started dancing in the streets.

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