le_pouffre_bleu@slrpnk.net to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agoJust Stop Oil activist jailed for six months for taking part in slow march [UK]www.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square186fedilinkarrow-up1459arrow-down111cross-posted to: climate@slrpnk.net
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minus-squarechitak166@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up55arrow-down1·11 months agoThe solution is to break the social contract on both sides. Governments need to learn they answer to the people, not the wealthy.
minus-squareqdJzXuisAndVQb2@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up26arrow-down6·11 months agoNothing will be accomplished without violence.
minus-squarechitak166@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down5·11 months agoCivil disobedience, more likely.
minus-squareendhits@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down2·11 months agoCivil disobedience is what the history books say is the thing to do. Not what reality says is the thing to do.
minus-squareqdJzXuisAndVQb2@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down2·11 months agoAgreed. See Scheidel’s The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century.
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minus-squareWarmApplePieShrek@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down3·11 months agoCivil disobedience is what they just got 6 months in jail for.
minus-squaresteeznson@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down1·11 months agoThat is how civil disobedience works. Nelson Mandela was in prison for years.
minus-squareWarmApplePieShrek@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down2·11 months agoSo what’s your complaint? They did what you said they should do.
minus-squaremaynarkh@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 months agoHe also did some fucked up violent shit to get his point across. Look up necklacing.
minus-squaresteeznson@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 months agoMy understanding was that he did some kind of tacit endorsement of necklacing. Can’t recall if he was popularising songs that described it or something. However pretty sure he was not personally involved.
minus-squarepinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·11 months agoPor que no los dos?
The solution is to break the social contract on both sides.
Governments need to learn they answer to the people, not the wealthy.
Nothing will be accomplished without violence.
Civil disobedience, more likely.
Civil disobedience is what the history books say is the thing to do. Not what reality says is the thing to do.
Agreed. See Scheidel’s The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century.
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Civil disobedience is what they just got 6 months in jail for.
That is how civil disobedience works. Nelson Mandela was in prison for years.
So what’s your complaint? They did what you said they should do.
He also did some fucked up violent shit to get his point across. Look up necklacing.
My understanding was that he did some kind of tacit endorsement of necklacing. Can’t recall if he was popularising songs that described it or something. However pretty sure he was not personally involved.
Por que no los dos?