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Topic subjectRE: yes. and i dont understand the people who say it doesnt accomplish anything
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12792581, RE: yes. and i dont understand the people who say it doesnt accomplish anything
Posted by Deacon Blues, Tue Apr-28-15 10:08 AM
>because fuck yes they do
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>and i think there are numerous examples of instances where
>they have
>e,g most recently the burkinabe uprisings
>the arab spring (and i speak regardless of the consequences,
>the achievements at the onset)
>soweto
>nairobi in the 90s
>the bread riots in france
>etc etc.
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>perhaps *this* might not, but lets not paint a general brush
>and not every riot starts with a guarantee of success
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Those are mostly riots where people had some power (they were the majority) and there was was organization, most of the area in the inner cities of America where there were riots from the 60s on forward are still damaged from those riots


We've got to organize and use our heads like In the civil rights movement, there is some of that but it's not cohesive. Riots really would be unnecessary if we came together.

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