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Should Climate Protesters Be Less Annoying? (newrepublic.com)
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[–] Coreidan@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think the idea is to wake up normal people. If protesters only annoy the rich then nothing changes because it’s easy for the rich to ignore a couple of protesters.

If you annoy regular people then hopefully more people wake up. It’s a lot harder to ignore regular people especially if a lot wake up.

We need everyone in this world to be pissed off, not just a few activists. The sooner everyone is pissed the less leverage rich people have to ignore it all.

[–] CurseBunny@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago

Also, publicity is a big factor. You pretty much guarantee some degree of media coverage when you do something like shut down a busy highway. I don't think people consider often enough how important even negative press is in spreading the message.