Have You Ever Witnessed a Live Protest?

Question

I haven't...just on TV

Answer 1

I have, as a member of a political organisation in the Netherlands (young greens) I've even helped organise one, and rallied against another (right wing extremists). Unfortunately, the more I meddled with politics the more cynical I became with the world, and I now know protest marches look good on the news - but it's a lot of effort usually without any result. The people involved in it will feel good about themselves though, and sometimes that seems the only point to it. If you really want to change the world, you have to be keen on listening to a lot of BS and make a lot of BS decisions yourself, before you have the BS power to actually change a god damned thing. Really, all that keeps societes run with some stability, is that politics is terribly slow and unneccesarily difficult. Were it faster and easier, such as it could be with a more direct democracy, society would outrun itself and become a perfect chaos I suppose. I'd be an idealist still, but I've realised nothing makes any difference unless you can directly make it so. And because nearly everyone is as cynical as me, or more cynical still, protest marches these days are either small, or otherwise ignored. That's the vicious circle we find ourselves in.

Answer 2

Mild student protest.
When I say 'mild', I mean it was induced by the drinking of...

We laid a dead pig on the lawn, outside the principle university building, in protest that we were being policed by senior staff regarding our scams to raise money during 'raise and give' week. It was rather hot, and the pig was somewhat bloated with maggots already, so when the University staff arrived with important visitors in tow, they were not amused.
When the pig exploded on the prongs of the tractor they drafted in to move it, covering the front of the building with as much mess as you are likely to want to imagine, you can guess that the whole of RAG week was banned!
I still find it a wonder that we got to do RAG the following year, when I was chairperson, and that in subsequent years the pig has been fondly remembered and passed on by verbal tradition to countless other students...!

Answer 3

Yes.

Arizona didn't officialy have 'Martin Luther King Jr.' as a state holiday. Somehow, we ended up in the biggest MLK Jr party ever. Not really protest ... but party protest.

Answer 4

I've taken part in protests. Back in the '70s, against the Viet Nam war.

Answer 5

As a baptized Catholic, i'm able to assert that i don't hate jehovah's witnesses. In all the sermons I heard, I in no way heard the Catholic Priest pontificate hatred against every physique, including Jehovah's witnesses. i think of your friends are destructive representatives of their respective faiths. on the different had, there are a number of fundamentalist christians who hate each and every person, including Catholics, muslims, jehovah's witnesses, and mormons.

Answer 6

Yes. When my daughter was in high school, the local church held a protest when the school system banned the church members coming in and having lunch with students.

Answer 7

Witnessed?...I've been in one. Back in university 3rd year...hmmm what was it about? Something about peace I guess because the 22 of us marched downtown singing peace songs....oh I think it was for World Disarmament or World Development or some such thing. Anyways, It was something to do that day.

Answer 8

Radon dumping in Northern NJ. I was a teenager at the time. The protest phrase was "Hell no. We won't glow!"

Answer 9

Sure. Do you know how many times I have been turned down when asking a woman for a date?

Answer 10

yes