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Protesters Shut Down Los Angeles Highway to Demand Ceasefire in Gaza (truthout.org)

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No more business as usual," the organization leading the protest said on social media.

Dozens of Jewish protesters and their allies were arrested on Wednesday morning after they blocked rush hour traffic on a busy Los Angeles highway to demand a ceasefire in Israel’s war on Palestinians in Gaza.

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[-] Serialchemist@ttrpg.network 11 points 11 months ago

Also conflicted: I don’t think the disruption itself is a bad thing if it’s disrupting a part of society that derives benefit from the whatever is being protested against.

That said, I’m not sure how disrupting traffic in Los Angeles is going to affect the change they want to see. You can’t get much further from Washington DC than the West Coast.

[-] ChapulinColorado@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago

This is the dumbest way to protest. Out of the book of any publicity is good publicity: “any protest is a good protest”.

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