You say you want a revolution, well…
Michael Drew, in the comments: First the knock was that they’d never last. Now the problem seems to be that they hung on too long and things got a little ripe. I would counsel...
Tagged: protests
Promises Were Broken
by E.C. Gach In a recent guest post, Aaron B. pointed out that the Occupy Wall Street movement is, perhaps more than anything else, about forging a shared political identity and civic community. And...
Occupy Wall Street
~by Aaron B. Slowly but surely, the Occupy Wall Street protests are gaining the attention of the mainstream media. A New York Times story on global protest movements makes a passing mention of the...
My take on the French retirement protests
can be found here. Comments welcome, particularly from others who have been following the story in the francophone press.
What Are These “Protests” You Are Talking About?
by Jason Arvak League members Scott Payne and Mark Thomspon have recently engaged in a debate over the value of protests. In one sense, I agree with each of them. Like Mark, I am...
Creating Apathy by Fighting Apathy
Scott (and, by implication, Freddie) has put together a challenging retort to my arguments that most large-scale political protests are inevitably undermined by the unpreventable introduction of irrelevant issues into the protest and are thus...
The Futility of Protesting
Andrew Sullivan has been taking flak from movement conservatives (what else is new?) for calling the Tea Party protests nothing more than childish “temper tantrums.” He has repeatedly pointed out the hypocrisy of these...
