Adbusters calls for a "spiritual insurrection" starting May 1

[zeemike]

11. But that is not what I mean

When they did a sit in all the protesters would sit in and all would get arrested....which loaded up the jails and cost the locals a lot of money...
There was a scene out of the movie about Gandhi where they were demanding entrance to the salt mines that the British had guards posted on...when the first one stepped up an tried to enter the guard hit him with the but of a gun...he fell and the next one stepped forward and he too was hit and carried away....soon there was a long line of people standing waiting for their abuse...and the guards would just touch them on the cheek and go to the next one....and it became a futile exercise because when you meet non violence with violence you loose the support of decent people...same thing happened with the civil rights movement...when the burning buss was shown on TV to the American people the South cause was lost.

Remember the sit down where those kids were pepper sprayed? Had there been a line of hundreds to take their place when they were dragged off it would have been a whole different thing....there is power in unity of purpose and action.
But I do understand that this movement is not the same as the civil rights movement where a whole class of people were really brutalized in a systematic fashion