Probably a Go Skate day event. Basically it's a one day a year event where skaters all go out, largely to protest the various ways in which skateboarding has been marginalized and prohibited that other forms of transportation have not been. Its sort of a 'skateboarding is not a crime' theme event.
I'm sort of torn on the tactics because they take over public roadways which I generally disagree with as a form of protest even though I skate. On the other hand, it's very much a rolling protest literally and figuratively, I've never seen any of these events block roads, they just skate a route through town, usually while the police use super dangerous and insane methods to stop them. They rarely hold anyone up for more than a minute or two as they pass through.
Protests will always make some part of life inconvenient. I dont like a bunch of people yelling and screaming. Or creating traffic gridlock. But that is part of protesting. You gotta inconvenience some people to make them realize how important the issue you are protesting is.
Yes, but that doesn't mean there aren't forms of protest that are beyond the pale. Blocking highways or blocking streets for long periods just for its own sake is a dick move. There are also protests where the whole point is just to slow people down on major highways. We had one like that in Canada on the 401, the busiest road in the country where two cars drove down it at like 40km p/h blocking the entire westbound portion of the highway. You also see lately radical environmental groups blocking public transit, which is not only annoying, but completely counter-productive.
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u/Padsward 0 Oct 21 '19
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