Democracy at work.
Fucking scary how quickly people are willing to denounce a protest, just because it causes slight inconvenience for the everyday citizen. THAT IS THE FUCKING POINT! We’re so addicted to convenience, and the only way people will wake up from their consumption-hypnosis, is through forced inconvenience.
I honestly believe blocking roads the most effective way to protest in today’s society.
It’s one of the few ways that’s dreamed “illegal” to protest. And most governments will do anything in it’s power to clear the roads, including imprison people.
People need to realize that being late to work doesn’t actually matter, but the state of the climate does. We need more road blocks. Some without people too, just barricades.
The protests are pretty good and everything imo, but what needs to happen is burning down oil refineries or violence against CEOs and billionaires tbh. Nothing is going to change as long as the line continues to go up for the investor class
Amen.
As long as they let emergency vehicles through
That’s a given on all public gatherings. Emergency vehicles (i.e. ambulance and fire brigade) have to have way of right, but people know that.
being late to work doesn’t actually matter
Tell that to the employers and parole officers. Being late to work matters quite a lot to a lot of people who are already disenfranchised.
We can blame a cruel criminal justice system, or we can say that the price is worth it. Maybe it is, just don’t pretend that there aren’t consequences.
Only retort is that it’s potentially dangerous.
Only because of all the cars, which is part of what they’re protesting against.
Obviously?
You just posted “the cars are the dangerous thing on the road” as if I needed to read that?
Be aware that street blockade are not, as a rule, categorically excluded as a valid way of protesting and that this stretch to road is not in fact a highway - a sign says a much and the speed limit is 50km/h. There are traffic lights at both ends and detours are just a few 100 meters.
Furthermore the public prosecutor doesn’t charge the protestors because judges have ruled repeatedly that these are peaceful and orderly protests and hence people are acquitted or not sentenced.
The thumbnail makes it look like a fun water party.
It only depends on the side of the canon.
Police said that they’re fine that they’re protesting the system, but that they wish it didn’t involve them having to act. They don’t realize that they’re part of the system…
aljazeera link? i’m sure there are better sources
Aljazeera is pretty good as long as it’s not reporting on middle east affairs or Kuwait itself.
Qatar actually. I make this mistake too.
And the BBC is good? If you have a good idea of a mainstream medium’s biases, you’ll be fine. Al Jazeera will have an obvious bias in Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Palestine. If they don’t have a beef with a country, they’ll be fairly critical and well informed.
Both the BBC and Al Jazeera are reputable.
If I recall correctly Al Jazeera is even that bad in the middle east and even about Qatar itself, UNLESS you are in Qatar and reading/watching/listening to them in Arabic. Don’t quote me on that last part though.
@Blake@feddit.uk Thought you’d be interested in this story: dutch folks were protesting fossil fuel subsidies and got water cannoned. All of this fossil fuel subsidy money could build out carbon free energy generation and transmission.
Yeah, the level of state investment and subsidy in fossil fuel is absolutely ludicrous. If all of the money spent on subsidising fossil fuels was instead put into investment of renewables, that would DOUBLE the investments on renewables. It wouldn’t double the subsidy, it would double TOTAL SPENDING.
That is absolutely eye-watering to me.
If they want to keep fuel prices low, the best thing to do would be to nationalise all corporations in the fossilfuel industry - with a symbolic payment of $0.01 per share or something like that - and run them to completely forego profit and to put those companies intentionally into decline.
video of this is here