• Zaktor
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    6 months ago

    I’m trying to think about what protests were like 25-30 years ago. I’m not certain that’s actually worse than what we have now. We haven’t necessarily progressed in protest freedom.

    Initially I thought he was going to have the national guard start shooting people, but turns out the 70s aren’t 30 years ago like they’ve seemed my entire life.

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        6 months ago

        My curiosity led to some research and… I couldn’t find any major student protests in the 1990s. Which I guess is the end goal. I did join protests in 2002, and I remember not having an ounce of fear that there would be pro-war nuts driving through them or that the police would show up with surplus military equipment to wage war on people for shouting things in a place others would prefer they didn’t.

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          There were major protests, though. I participated in ACT UP, and the WTO protest n Seattle. There were anti-Gulf War protests, protests over US actions in Central and South America, and many campus-closing protests. I even took part in one, where we occupied the admin building and shut it down over tuition hike plans.