please only make your voices 'heard' in the designated free speech zones.
It's wild that these actually exist in some public places.
There's one in the Mojave desert, one in northern Alaska, and one in Antartica, so that everyone is covered.
Key take away
To Kavanagh, the crime wasn’t just about blocking traffic. It was “steal[ing] hours of [people’s] lives away.”
Hot Take: If Kavanagh feels so strongly about this. Then make wage theft a felony because it is literally stealing people's time and it's a far larger problem than a few blocking a road.
Pretty good idea. Especially for larger companies where they have less of an argument that it was a mistake.
This would include 'Freedom Convoy' style trucker blockades too, right?
No, only peasants on foot trying to annoy our wheeled overlords and their owners.
Of course not. Freedom for me and not for thee.
I hope so
Hell hath no fury like white people mildly inconvenienced
"Lawmakers" don't want this, "corporate interests funding lawmakers" want this
Nevermind the hundreds of thousands of people socially murdered by US/EPA negligence. Those people were interrupted from going to their jobs and making money for rich twats. Don't people know that's so much more important than *checks notes... you getting cancer in your thirties?
No one stands in the way of the almighty car
To everyone saying that this shouldn't be a protected form of protest, explain why blocking traffic is bad, but this wasn't: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sit-in_movement
Probably something about either how it affects them directly so that protest is bad. Also possibly about shipping
I'm all for people protesting wherever they need to. But roads are not safe. Period. "Drivers should just stop and turn around!" Well, yeah, they should. But if someone doesn't, a lot of people get hurt. Don't use your body in a metal cage fight. You'll lose every time. So if you chose to protest in the street, just be aware of the risks.
I've seen photos of kids at roadblock protests. That's super fucked up. Kids and dogs don't belong at any protests, let alone ones focused on civil disobedience or whatever you may choose to call it.
This comment isn't about "muh commute!" It's about irresponsible organizers putting people in harms way.
Reminder that just about every argument that amounts to "protect the children" is a bullshit argument trying to override free speech and expression with some sort of misguided paternal instinct.
I was absolutely baffled by the downvote brigade in this thread, who see no qualms with blocking traffic as a form of protest, so I tried to find some numbers as to what non Lemmy users think of this kind of protest, and not surprisingly, it turns out that people are overwhelmingly against it.
The best statistics article I could find in my short search: https://today.yougov.com/politics/articles/47565-american-opinion-portest-tactics-acceptability
So for the USA at least, 80% of polled People considered blocking traffic usually/always unacceptable, while only 11% were usually/always ok with it.
Lemmy users on average really do hold some fringe opinions, which makes me wonder about the demographics of the users on here :)
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