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Article: A FRICTION TO THE MACHINE.(demonstrations, civil disobedience and the new world order)(Brief Article)(Column)
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- Alternatives Journal
- Article date:
- March 22, 2001
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We need to get arrested more often," Daniel blurts to the clutch of ecotypes gathered in a Montreal bar. We had just come from another talk about how badly the earth was being abused. Some of us were feeling a little weary.
It sounded like an epiphany to me. I already knew that challenging the courts can change bad laws, set precedents, draw publicity to an issue and free up one's inhibitions to do what's right. So why had it been so long since I had last been arrested?
The next day, my soulmate Angela and I discovered an abandoned sofa and moved it into the curb lane of sunny Boulevard St. Denis. The sidewalks were jammed with pedestrians strolling and ...