Aren't protests with
too many disparate aims ultimately flawed, though? It makes it hard for anyone to sum up what the protest is about. Is it about green issues? Poverty? Human rights? It just becomes a left protest against the right.
Because of this, such protests always seem to be sabotaged by smaller political parties. I saw an anti-nazi one when the BNP were in Leeds. If you wanted to be on that march, you'd be stood under a lots of logos for far left groups which I also wouldn't agree with their policies.
I agree that it's better to do something, but sometimes think that lots of lone voices are better than a mob.
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monkeon schmonkeon, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 14:07,
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