• InexplicableLunchFiend [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    17 days ago

    it was the most effective of any anti-genocide protesting in the USA, that’s why it was cracked down on with an iron fist. It stopped not because it was ineffective but because the core of activists was arrested, expelled and beaten

    • T34_69 [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      17 days ago

      Yeah actually it’s an indication that it was being effective, and would have continued being effective, which is why the state used its security forces to suppress those tactics.

    • the rizzler@lemmygrad.ml
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      17 days ago

      there were a few famous and effective encampments but there were also many groups that didn’t correctly follow the escalation ladder just so they could join the encampment wave and therefore were successfully destroyed with little to no actual impact