During Bloody Sunday in Selma was one of the most successful protests in history where police disproportionately responded to nonviolent disobedience by beating marchers with batons. It was successful not in spite of police violence, but because of it. The hundreds of demonstrators grew to thousands as people came from all across the country in solidarity.
A new Trump era means a renaissance of civil disruption. Protest will become much more dangerous, but it will also become much more effective.
I think they mean the unmarked vans disappearing people off the streets.
But who knows.
But that did not kill the protesting, did it?
No, it invigorated it.
During Bloody Sunday in Selma was one of the most successful protests in history where police disproportionately responded to nonviolent disobedience by beating marchers with batons. It was successful not in spite of police violence, but because of it. The hundreds of demonstrators grew to thousands as people came from all across the country in solidarity.
A new Trump era means a renaissance of civil disruption. Protest will become much more dangerous, but it will also become much more effective.