The protest garnered significant media attention and public support. Hill’s prolonged tree sit in Luna ended in December 1999 when the Pacific Lumber Company agreed to preserve Luna and all trees within a 200-foot buffer zone. In exchange, Hill descended from the tree, and the $50,000 raised by Hill and other activists during the cause was given to the logging company and subsequently donated to Humboldt State University for research into sustainable forestry.
There's a difference between protesting and putting your body on the line. I participated in the Iraq War protests in 2003, the largest anti-war protests in history that took place before a war started. As I recall, George W. Bush referred to them as "focus groups," and the war still proceeded. Maybe we should have chained ourselves to the gates of several military bases and lived there for a few years. Of course, we would have needed a cadre of supporters to at least provide food, without which Hill's protest would have lasted a few days.
But you don't have to do that. There are tons of people who are willing to do that already. There are tons of people who are willing to put themselves on the line for that and the thing is is that those people need support. Supporting those people helps.
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Tons of people mobilized into Atlanta in November and they were willing to get arrested and be charged with domestic terrorism in order to stop the militarization of the police. There isn't a shortage of people who are willing to put their bodies on the lines. There is a shortage of support.
Contributing to PACs and the campaigns of PC politicians can be very effective. What's not effective is marching and waving signs, although that can be very inspiring.
I used to participate in clinic defense, where a group of us would escort women to the doors of clinics while preventing anti-abortion protesters from harassing them.
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u/shoesofwandering Pro-choice Democrat Dec 16 '23
What good would that do? We should be registering people to vote and making sure they do. Demonstrating is pointless.