Just Stop Oil activist jailed for six months for taking part in slow march [UK]

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Just Stop Oil activist jailed for six months for taking part in slow march
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Nothing will be accomplished without violence.

Civil disobedience, more likely.

Civil disobedience is what the history books say is the thing to do. Not what reality says is the thing to do.

Agreed. See Scheidel's The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century.

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Civil disobedience is what they just got 6 months in jail for.

That is how civil disobedience works. Nelson Mandela was in prison for years.

He also did some fucked up violent shit to get his point across. Look up necklacing.

My understanding was that he did some kind of tacit endorsement of necklacing. Can't recall if he was popularising songs that described it or something. However pretty sure he was not personally involved.

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