Naomi Wolf, on civil disobedience done right

It’s worth opening in a background tab and half-listening-to while you check whatever else is so damn important this morning.

The kind of mass protest that always works is illegal just about everywhere in the United States today. Why is that? For a protest to be effective, you have to stop traffic. You have to stop traffic. What keeps you from getting a permit in the United States? Stepping a foot into the street. Now why do you have to stop traffic? Because for a protest to do anything, it has to disrupt business as usual.

I should also note that hawktrainer shared the link via Treehugger via Chelsea Green via After Downing Street.