Interrupting traffic has never been a successful strategy in the US. In fact it usually lowers support.
Success can only come by affecting the money. Targeted boycotts, if they can be widely enough embraced, would be 100 times more effective
Boycotts won’t work, as the ruling class has far more capital to throw around than we do. Blocking freeways interrupts life for normal folks but does serve to make the issue visible and have some degree of impact on local commerce. Ultimately, though, I am starting to think that the most efficient means of resistance is to come up with a few more Luigis, since most other strategies have been rendered ineffective.
I’m curious why you think boycotts can’t work but mass protests would. Don’t they both require a massive amount of people rallying together for a cause? If at the next shareholder meeting, the business owners can’t show “line going up”, they’ll have to respond to the consumers who are boycotting their product or get booted by the shareholders.
ICE isn’t a business though, it’s a government agency. It’s not something a citizen can boycott unless everyone just collectively stops paying taxes.
I don’t think the protest is all that effective either, but it’s better than a boycott.
You wanna make noise, protest. You wanna make change, run for school board.
Yeah! Boycott ICE! When they come to take your friends and family away, say, “you cannot do that! I boycott you!”
I also hear if you put a line of salt across the door, they can’t cross it.
Boycotts don’t really work. Is there a good example from the last ~40 years of a successful boycott?
20+ years ago in Hungary, against Danone, for them wanting to take the Győri Édesipari Vállalat to the Czech Republic. It didn’t work the second time, because Danone got a way bigger hold on the Hungarian market and they made sure a lot more children will cry if they get yoghurt not made by Danone.
There’s always some excuse for enforced silence.
