After I made my last post, I checked out that link Kidd.

Some of that stuff truly made me laugh out loud. Protestor finishing school? 24hr a day legal service to provide support for people being released from jail?

Then I looked at the list of groups involved and laughed again:

• Anti-War Committee
• AFSCME Local 3800
• Al Awda Right to Return Coalition - Chicago Chapter
• Al Awda Right to Return Coalition - Omaha chapter
• American Indian Movement Grand Governing Council
• Bolivarian Circle - Cincinnati
• Call 'Em Out Coalition (Detroit)
• Campus Antiwar Network
• Centro CSO (Los Angeles)
• Chicago Coalition Against War and Racism
• Coalition for Palestinian Rights (MN)
• CODEPINK
• Colombia Action Network
• Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES)
• Communist Party-USA, Minnesota
• Communities United Against Police Brutality (MN)
• Fight Imperialism Stand Together (FIST) - Raleigh, NC
• Freedom Road Socialist Organization
• Green Party, 5th Congressional District
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• International Action Center
• International Solidarity Movement, Chicago Chapter
• Iraq Peace Action Coalition (MN)
• Latinos Against War (Los Angeles)
• Low Income People Organized for Power (LIPOP) - Duluth, MN
• March 25 Coalition - Los Angeles
• May 1 Movement for Worker and Immigrant Rights
• Military Families Speak Out - Minnesota
• MN Immigrant Rights Action Coalition
• National Committee to Free Ricardo Palmera
• Network in Solidarity with the People of the Philippines (NISPOP)
• New Jersey Solidarity - Activists for the Liberation of Palestine
• Nicaragua Solidarity Committee - Chicago
• Palestine Solidarity Group - Chicago
• Peoples Republic of the North Star (ML)
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• Revolting Queers
• Socialist Alternative
• Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) - National
• Students for a Democratic Society – Ohio State chapter
• Students for a Democratic Society - University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa chapter
• Students for a Democratic Society - University of Minnesota chapter
• Students for a Democratic Society - UNC-Asheville chapter
• Students for a Democratic Society - UNC-Chapel Hill chapter
• Students for Peace - University of Minnesota Duluth
• Students for Social Justice - Oakton Community College, Des Plains, IL
• Students for Social Justice - University of Illinois Chicago
• Teamster 743 New Leadership Slate
• Troops Out Now Coalition
• Twin Cities Peace Campaign – Focus on Iraq (MN)
• United for Peace and Justice (UFPJ)
• War Resisters League
• Welfare Rights Committee (MN)
• Women Against Military Madness (MN)
• Youth Against War and Racism
• 1000 Grandmothers

Yea, I agree with the tea party dtro, but that was a whole different age ago. I still don't see what getting arrested and getting a record will get you outside of a harder time finding a job when you do get out of school. I'm not saying you can't be against it and you should voice your opinion about what you don't like. But becoming a pain in the butt doesn't get you anywhere and you cause more harm to your cause than anything. I also laugh at the list you put and it's funny that they have people to get you out of jail, so they are saying to make a jerk out of yourself and get arrested.

Cuff 'em, stuff 'em in a C-5, issue them a parachute and march them off the ramp over sunny eastern Afghanastan, or beautiful Iraq.

Surely all their love and message of peace will make great strides in making friends and healing broken relationships.

I know, me too. Kinda posted that tounge in cheek. I will say however, I will be marching, civilly, in protest to both the War and the condition of our economy.

Yes it was, that's why no one is dumping tea in the Mississippi.

Gandhi and MLK's nonviolent protests were pretty important. Domestic protest and public sentiment eventually forced the U.S. to withdraw its troops from Vietnam. UFW strikes led by Cesar Chavez changed national farm labor policies.

Protestors are, in general, very annoying. However, I wouldn't just dismiss them or round them up and send them to war. I still think they have their place in history in making changes. I don't think one can split hairs between the spirit of protest in 1773 Boston Harbor and other protests happening today...they are all designed to bring about changes in one way or another. If anything its a little disappointing that this country has so much political apathy. It seems as though many just take things lying down. Things have sure changed in forty years.

Nice post da_chise

No busses in 1775, they were "buggied" in from the other states and it was a logistical nightmare.






It would get you three hots and a cot.

It would get you three hots and a cot. [/quote]

plus you get to make new "friends."

Protesting a political convention scares the un-decided voters. At least for me.

You saying you get skeered easy?

One man's opinion here. The independents decide the elections. Extremism scares independents. So essentially the protesters hurt their own cause.

I would agree. As a moderate I enjoy the extremes of both sides as they make me laugh.

The right to protest is what makes this country what it is. No matter how ridiculous. The worse the situation, the greater the crowd.