Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-211 days agoIraq War was preceded by the largest worldwide non-violent protests in history and the war happened anyway.lemmy.blahaj.zoneimagemessage-square124fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up11arrow-down1imageIraq War was preceded by the largest worldwide non-violent protests in history and the war happened anyway.lemmy.blahaj.zoneSnot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-211 days agomessage-square124fedilinkfile-text
Those non-violent protests shook them so bad they wanted to charge non-violent Quaker protestors with terrorism.
minus-squareyarr@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·10 days agoWhat change was accomplished by OccupyWallstreet? They were angry about economic inequality – it’s worse today than in 2011. They wanted an end to corporate personhood – still totally cookin’ in 2024 with no end in sight More regulation of the financial sector – we are more deregulated than ever today I had to admire their aims, but as a movement it was profoundly ineffective…
What change was accomplished by OccupyWallstreet?
They were angry about economic inequality – it’s worse today than in 2011.
They wanted an end to corporate personhood – still totally cookin’ in 2024 with no end in sight
More regulation of the financial sector – we are more deregulated than ever today
I had to admire their aims, but as a movement it was profoundly ineffective…