[thechat] No lies about the dead! (was: What about the economy?)
Martin
martin at members.evolt.org
Sun Aug 19 17:15:18 CDT 2001
Ron White wrote on 19/8/01 11:04 pm
>The Berlin Wall coming down - came down because of people fighting for their
>own freedom.
Protest against the oppressor, yes.
>Apartheid ending - same
The same, yes, plus boycotts making it economically unviable for SA.
fwiw, pretty much all the South African AA groups supported the boycott
>Nazi Germany being defeated - same
*cough* war *cough*
>Women's sufferage in most countries - Don't recall much violence with this.
*cough* Emily Pankhurst
>The end of the Raj in India (perhaps the seminal non-violent protest)- same
>as the top three
Yes, exactly my point.
>The Polish Solidarity movement - same as the others
And again
>The ending of the slave trade from Africa across the Atlantic - this ended
>mostly because it was cheaper to just breed them in the New World than
>import them.
Partially, but also because of the protest movement in Britain led by
Wilberforce.
Ron, my point *was* that the only way to end oppression is to protest
against it.
Martin
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