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Repression of climate and environmental protest is intensifying across the world
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All successful, meaningful, peaceful movements have had violent allies, or allies who were threatening violence.
A protest without the threat of escalation is no protest at all.
I suppose that's a good point. Like MLK Jr. was proposing a peaceful resolution to inequality, and the alternative was Malcolm X, the Nation of Islam, and the Black Panthers. I doubt MLK would have been as effective without those counterparts.