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As for leftists and liberals unhappy with Clinton, they might look at the LP's stances on gun control (boooo) and climate change (not the government's problem, generally), and decide that the Green Party's Jill Stein is a better protest vote.
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Anyway, while I'm happy for Rage Against the Machine to be enjoying the sales and publicity, I can't help thinking we could've organised a slightly better protest ourselves.
(And by the way, those who attack a store in an art exhibition might better protest the recent and quite awful redesigns of several of the Brooklyn Museum's permanent collection galleries).
I've had much better protests outside my public meetings than that".
Amid nostalgia for a better past, and protest at the brutish present – we are still living in a world, as Amnesty's Nicky Parker points out, where women can be put to death for writing poems – there are searing accounts of prejudice and persecution alongside passionate pleas for freedom.
But Gavin Long's life also became a web of paranoid ideas, a professed allegiance to an antigovernment "sovereign citizen" group and a belief that bloodshed was a better tool than peaceful protest in the fight against oppression.
If there is a difference between various members of the Labour movement, as I've said before, I suspect it is between those of us who are desperate to change our country and see progress happen, and those who find the politics of protest a better virtue signal.
Better a protest movement that casts itself (however quixotically) as the defender of "the 99 percent" than a protest movement that just represents Democratic interest groups.
"We can't beat the might of all the oil companies, but some of Greenpeace's efforts – on deforesting the rainforest for cattle feed, for example – really did help make that situation a lot better through protest," she says.
A better critique of the protests is the absence of specific policy demands.
That would be a better way of discouraging protests than issuing targets to suppress them.
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