Speaking of violence in protests, I was in Quebec for the Summit of the Americas... being there is actually another world from "seing it on TV" or only thinking of it. I was like thatg before.. "violence during a protest is useless and is for loosers".. now I say "nah... those actions are on the moment". People there believe in their cause, my cause as well that I share with them. Medias, surprisingly (I could demonstrate by Quebec) showed the extreme minority who were there only to make useless violence.
There, I tell you, you've got a wall to protect leaders of countries. This wall represents, to me and to the protesters, the kinda "now that we're elected, fuck off" politicians. It's a symbol to protesters. Tearing it appart (as I did in Quebec) is not violent in my opinion.
Then, you've got police throwing you gas for, a lot of time, no reasons. Police is another symbol. People are there for many reasons, many causes.... environment, debt relief.. even the "Angry Grannies" are there, religious people, priests, socialists, communists, anarchists of course, even capitalist people as I saw in Quebec (with great surprise).. all those people, for different causes and ideas and beliefs are linked to one objective : change things to make them better. And we all feel that we're thrown off a system that is imposed by governments and corporation.
As I read in a book by a I-don't-remember-who philosopher... "Democract-socialists fight with ideas... corporatives and the actual system fights with money". This thought could be the closest feeling you can get in a protest like that.
It's completely different when you are there.
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=HJ Clandestino=
Pis si ? moins y'en avait moins de pauv' cr?tins
Pr?ts ? mourir pour la Patrie
Kalishnikov et compagnie
Pour faire rouler l'?conomie
~~Cuba clandestino, Marijuana illegal~~