Reply #35: no they don't work any more

[pitohui]

they suck up the energy of millions, as happened in the protest leading up to the war on iraq, with apparently zero result

protests seem to have some limited effect on domestic policies in europe

they have little effect on domestic or internat'l policy in usa, which is one reason that does make me wonder if indeed our voting is rigged, since you wonder why otherwise politicos would care so little for what large groups of people think

you say--I think people protesting their senators, congress people, corrupt corporate leaders...having people follow them in protest 24/7 and rotating the crew might yield more attention. I don't know.



sort of like, let a million michael moores bloom, i suppose, it can't hurt, and digital video tech is cheap these days, so maybe all you need is the free time and access

hmm, could be good, you'd need to edit brutally, because of difficulties in getting access to the powerful, you might have thousands of hours of video for the one hour that's a gem, how dedicated are you? i like the idea but not sure how practical it will be without a mass involvement in such a film making project -- and we also have a problem of anti stalker laws being employed -- in the last 2 decades, anti-stalker laws have been increasingly used not just to protect or often not at all to protect private citizens but instead to protect celebrities