A large group of people protesting President Donald Trump’s illegal immigration policies blocked traffic on the Hollywood (101) Freeway in downtown Los Angeles Sunday. The protesters gathered Sunday morning on Olvera Street for what the Los Angeles Police Department called a non-permitted demonstration. The crowd grew to a few thousand people who marched to City […]
Boycotts won’t work, as the ruling class has far more capital to throw around than we do. Blocking freeways interrupts life for normal folks but does serve to make the issue visible and have some degree of impact on local commerce. Ultimately, though, I am starting to think that the most efficient means of resistance is to come up with a few more Luigis, since most other strategies have been rendered ineffective.
I’m curious why you think boycotts can’t work but mass protests would. Don’t they both require a massive amount of people rallying together for a cause? If at the next shareholder meeting, the business owners can’t show “line going up”, they’ll have to respond to the consumers who are boycotting their product or get booted by the shareholders.
Boycotts won’t work, as the ruling class has far more capital to throw around than we do. Blocking freeways interrupts life for normal folks but does serve to make the issue visible and have some degree of impact on local commerce. Ultimately, though, I am starting to think that the most efficient means of resistance is to come up with a few more Luigis, since most other strategies have been rendered ineffective.
I’m curious why you think boycotts can’t work but mass protests would. Don’t they both require a massive amount of people rallying together for a cause? If at the next shareholder meeting, the business owners can’t show “line going up”, they’ll have to respond to the consumers who are boycotting their product or get booted by the shareholders.
ICE isn’t a business though, it’s a government agency. It’s not something a citizen can boycott unless everyone just collectively stops paying taxes.
I don’t think the protest is all that effective either, but it’s better than a boycott.
I knew about the LA protests before the reports of blocking freeways came out.
I gave them more respect until that. We don’t have to make it easy to vilify a cause.