Rather than simply occupying a physical space as if there is a moral right to just do what you want, isn't it better to make a protest but at the same time invite people to engage their hearts and minds in a series of conversations that open up the landscape rather than occupy it?
Nobody has a better claim to be a protest candidate.
Olonga was wary at first, and was reluctant to do anything to rock the boat, but he eventually realised that he had a golden opportunity to make the world sit up and take notice, and what better time to make a protest than during cricket's most important global competition, when the eyes of the world would be watching.
He further criticized the campus police for not knowing how to handle a protest better, considering the area's long history of demonstrations for various issues.
After all, what better way to stage a protest during a stockholders' meeting than showing up as a holder of SeaWorld stock?
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.
Several hundred gendarmes drove their service vehicles to the force's national headquarters in a protest demanding better pay and shorter workdays.
Students hold signs during a protest demanding better public services and criticizing massive government spending on the World Cup.
"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.
Across the Nile River in the Giza district, hundreds of ambulance drivers staged a protest, also to demand better pay and permanent jobs.
