Have you ever participated in any kind of protest? Do you wish you did/didn't?

The only one I remember was when I was 16, and went with a busload to DC to protest the Turkish invasion of Cyprus.
The news said there were 80,000 people marching that day. That's when I fell in love with D.C.
I found a clip of the march on Youtube:
 
Took part in a mess hall boycott but I was in the military. It it worked

The only other time I ras involved in a demo I was holding a loaded gun beneath a banner which read if you do not disperse we shall open fire. they dispersed
 

There was one occasion when our group were next in line for a strike at work. Thank goodness, it never came to that. Phew! That would have been a financial nightmare.

However, I had to (along with the rest of my colleagues) to cross a picket line. We got hit with brollies and batons. That's when I lost all support for them.

The aftermath was devastating to three strikers in our office. Two ladies lost their husbands through divorce, custody of their children, cars and their credit ratings, the last lady was single, but she got evicted from her flat, had to move back to her parents in another area of the country.

Thankfully, she had to accept the original job she'd been offered, a position in her family's business. All three had to rebuild their lives, it was nasty. I got promoted 6 months later, but I heard they paid a dear price for going on that strike...
 
Supernatural said:
There was one occasion when our group were next in line for a strike at work. Thank goodness, it never came to that. Phew! That would have been a financial nightmare.

However, I had to (along with the rest of my colleagues) to cross a picket line. We got hit with brollies and batons. That's when I lost all support for them.

The aftermath was devastating to three strikers in our office. Two ladies lost their husbands through divorce, custody of their children, cars and their credit ratings, the last lady was single, but she got evicted from her flat, had to move back to her parents in another area of the country.

Thankfully, she had to accept the original job she'd been offered, a position in her family's business. All three had to rebuild their lives, it was nasty. I got promoted 6 months later, but I heard they paid a dear price for going on that strike...
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A group of salt miners here in Ontario just signed a contract to go back to work after 192 DAYS ON STRIKE. They will never make that lost money back. When I was supervising security at industrial strikes, my advice to the strikers was......IF you want a job to come back to, don't do anything stupid during this strike. When it got to the point where the Wives were coming to the strike line to pick up the meagre amount of "Strike pay " so the men wouldn't spend it on drinking, we knew the strike was about over. As long as there were unions, I knew I had a secure job working the strikes. JimB.
 
Composed a long detailed response, but in a weird mood and decided to go with:

Yes various things from petitions, doing behind the scenes work for actual protests, to marching a few days sleeping in tents overnight) on the Meredith March in '66. Attended first Earth Day Celebration in NYC which were de facto protests.

Only regrets are about not doing more pre being a parent, back when i could save up for months (usually working thru Office Temp Agencies--which meant there were no huge gaps on my resumé.

Do email my state and fed reps about things tho my ones for NM need little nudging.
 
Pepper said:
I was there too! ❤️ Mayor Lindsay :love:
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Oh, yeah. i supported Transit workers' strike (tho it meant i walked 30+ blocks to work each way each day) then was it coal or oil delivery drivers that had some landlords turning furnaces off 24/7 claiming they were out of fuel when they weren't? (and Lindsay put folks up in hotels and billed their landlords?) Was grateful the sanitation workers strike was in winter i seem to recall.
 
I’ve had protests and political viewpoints imposed on me. When Nixon invaded Cambodia, I was in high school and my school had kind of a day of school-sponsored protest activities and observances. No instructional activities were going on. I wasn’t thrilled about it, and basically quietly socialized with friends, killing time non-disruptively. We were reprimanded by a teacher for not participating, but it just wasn’t my thing…

In college a short while later, I had a professor who spent a significant portion of almost every class bewailing how terrible Nixon was. Foolish me, I thought I was there to study English literature… 😾
 

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