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[–] [email protected] 178 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

[–] [email protected] 34 points 6 hours ago (6 children)

Apparantly, (in the US) any protest that needs to occupy the road requires a permit. Yea imagine how stupid it is, you want to protest the government and you need to apply for permission?!? I was shocked when my teacher told me about this. Seems like a huge First Amendment violation to me, but society just goes along with it. 😓

So unless your protest is strictly on the sidewalk, you need a permit. So fucking dumb.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 hours ago

You don’t need a permit to march in the streets or on sidewalks, as long as marchers don’t obstruct car or pedestrian traffic. And that makes a lot of sense because if you block a road perhaps emergency services need to know ahead of time that they can't take that route. Or others concerns may be relevant. For the very same reasons this is similar in countries around the world. Source: https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/protesters-rights

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Murrica is not nearly as free as people think it is

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago

Depends how much money you have. Poor college students will have to follow the laws.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Technically it's the same in France. I'll let you figure how much that stops anyone...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Some people say that French people have guillotines in their DNA 😅

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restriction_site

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

So that's why they're so car centric with their infrastructure, more sidewalls = more protests

[–] Zink 3 points 5 hours ago

I think it’s probably like more roads = more permits needed to protest.

I’m in the US and all too familiar with how car centric our infrastructure is. On top of the permit thing, our angry rushed populace will demonize you for protesting anything if you’re blocking the road to do it. You could be giving CPR to a toddler and within minutes some emotional support truck would be running you over or rolling coal in your face.

[+] [email protected] -23 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

Public roadways are for travel.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

that's literally why blocking roads in protest is so effective. enough angry calls to the mayor office due to people being late for work etc, is how protesting puts pressure on representatives to actually represent the people.

or did you think that huddling on sidewalks holding signs was supposed to do something?

[–] [email protected] -4 points 5 hours ago

Blocking roads in protest has proven effective at exactly one thing: Increasing the enforcement and penalties for jaywalking.

It is counterproductive at everything else.

did you think that huddling on sidewalks holding signs was supposed to do something?

Where did I say huddle on sidewalks?

I think JSO should be firebombing ICE car dealerships, gas stations, muffler shops, and other entities and agents of the oil industry. Not harassing victims of that industry.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 hours ago

Me and my band of merry travelling protesters will just be on our way then.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

No shit sherlock.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 hours ago

That permit is worth as much to them as the original piece of paper in the scene.