Does protesting, striking, and mobs help a cause?

[froggyboy604]

Do you feel protesting, striking, and mobs like Occupy Wall street, Anonymous, Union strikes, etc help a cause like better wages for the working class, and equality?

I think Union Strikes help people in unions get better wages, and occupying a college campus might help with slightly lower/fairer tuition cost for students.

 

[Watch Me Sink]

College protests usually do little direct change, even the protest of UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi's piss poor dealing with earlier campus protests didn't lead to her stepping down. However in terms of the Arab Spring, protests do work.

 

[Gimgak]

I heard that protests at Kent State are quite effective

 

[The Reverend]

Do you feel protesting, striking, and mobs like Occupy Wall street, Anonymous, Union strikes, etc help a cause like better wages for the working class, and equality?

I think Union Strikes help people in unions get better wages, and occupying a college campus might help with slightly lower/fairer tuition cost for students.

They help when the thing that they are fighting for is something easy to grant. (see my avatar? that is a symbol of the hillsborough justice campaign, it is making progress). However, things like Occupy would need to be 100x the size it is now to actually start to change the way things are run.

 

[froggyboy604]

I heard the Quebec student protest on not raising tuition fees is making some progress because of the amount of support from the student population, and negotiations are planned for a better deal on Tuitions according to http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the ... story.html

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[Watch Me Sink]

I heard that Quebec students' tuition is increasing yearly by about as much as I make in a week at my fast food job. Gimme a break. Like I understand the corruption of Quebec's government and all that junk and they have the right to be angry about that, but they're paying more or less the same as the tuition that I'm paying. Not to mention their minimum wage is higher. We got a $75 fee or something added this year to our bill. Were we mad? Surely. Were we going to protest because of it? No! Not even the liberals protested that! Will a bunch of angry youth change the amount they are charging for tuition? No. Will it raise awareness to a cause that is deeper that college tuition? Hopefully.


*Note I am partially racist towards French Canadians, which might explain my disapproval of these protests.