An interesting piece by Max Obuszewski: "Largest Civil Disobedience Movement in U.S. History Is Underway".
Possible conclusions are:
- Civil disobedience is nearly useless
- There is a quiet revolution afoot
- The civil disobedience hasn't been done right
- It hasn't been properly highlighted
- The national leadership has failed to use this
- People are using these actions as a way of washing their hands of the situation without a real drive to change things ("not in my name")
- Corollary: People will stop these actions if it seems they might change something
- Others?
Poster cartoonist Mike Flugennock responds in the comments section to the article:
If this crap were actual "resistance" -- that is, direct, active interference with troop movements, shipments of war material, any other actions with serious impact on "business as usual" -- it might be worth mentioning. As it is, it's a bunch of people who got arrested at some contrived CD action, got toted off to jail, paid their fines, and were released, with no impact whatsoever on business, fascism and imperialism as usual.
[originally published at husseini.org on Dec. 12, 2007]