Peaceful protests?

Question

Does anyone think we should organise peaceful protests in this country. I wouldnt know how to go about this myself but I get so annoyed that the majority of law abiding citizens are getting ignored and our country is in a mess. The french go mad when they are upset about something. Just wondered.

Nice answers please no no it alls.

Answer 1

Though I'm "across the pond" I do note that there is no national day of commemoration for Mohandas K. Gandhi in Great Britain, but there is one for Guy Fawkes who tried to destroy the parliament building.

Answer 2

Peaceful ones dont work! Look at what the cops did in London that time when they just boxed everyone in.

The only way to make a mark is spontaneous "civil disobedience" and take em ALL by surprise!

Good luck

Answer 3

There are a lot of protests going on in every State of the US. That fact of the matter is that it is fallen on deaf ears of government officials, there is rarely any response or positive outcome to this action.

There are many great activist and advocate groups out there, you never mentioned what you want to protest about, but do a search in your State. Good luck!

Answer 4

we should applaud the french ,if they dont like everybody will know about it.

Answer 5

Peaceful protests have a long history of being ignored.

Civil disobedience is the only means of really changing things, and only if there is a very large number of people participating. I doubt whether there is any appetite in the US for that.

If you do want to try demonstrating I suppose the best thing to do is to contact activists who did it in the past, laws and provisions will be different from one country  to another.

The very best of luck!

Answer 6

Yes , I agree , the problem with us in the UK , is that we don't stand up for our rights

Our Govenment whould soon change there ways , if we were to protest , after all they are there to serve us , not to dictate the wishes of Europe upon us

Answer 7

I totally agree my friend. I don't know if you are British but the British are very apathetic. Just look at how many people have left questions in this section! Hardly anybody! This board could be used to great effect to organise such action. I posted a question about the state of our democracy and what we could do about it in current affairs category and one person answered. The board is overrun by Maddie McCann questions. The majority are dazed into zombie like submission by celebrities, soaps and crummy tv shows.

Then again like your other answerers say peaceful protest doesn't work - look at the millions who marched against the war in Iraq. Even the fuel protests didn't achieve anything. I think a common sense revolution is what is needed in this country. This country is going to the dogs in a drip drip fashion and we are just letting it happen. I really admire the French for their spirit. Ours is a complaining and moaning spirit, theirs is one of action.

These Downing street petitions are another way of the politicians conning us into thinking they are listening but nothing became of the road pricing petition did it after over a million signatures. I just looked at the petitions board and guess which had the most signatures in the ones due to expire soon "we petition to the PM to stand on his head and juggle ice cream" - over 5000 people signed it. What hope is there when Bozos like this live in our country.