T<\/span>The nature and sometimes the value of protests continue to puzzle me. “Occupy Wall Street” at least made optic sense. It was, to quote the occasionally accurate Wikipedia, “to protest corporate influence on democracy, the lack of legal consequences for those who brought about the global crisis of monetary insolvency, and an increasing disparity in wealth.”\u00a0<\/p>\nThe fact that it was staged amid the financial fiefdom whence came the movement’s title gave it a sort of clarity. Had it taken place at the Central Park Zoo, for example, it would have been purposefully disruptive but I’m not sure it would have won hearts and minds.<\/p>\n
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For history students or people like me, who’re old enough to remember it occurring in real time, Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963\u2014delivered at the Lincoln Memorial and drawing a crowd of more than 200,000 as well as the world’s news media (a considerably smaller cohort than today’s 24\/7 blabathon)\u2014was a significant moment in the protest movement.\u00a0Both its venue and message resonated, resulting in\u00a0the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.\u00a0<\/p>\n
This may be why, last week when eco-terrorists (oops,\u00a0environmental activists)<\/em>\u00a0sprayed parts of the historic monument Stonehenge with an orange paint-like substance, the phrase that immediately popped into my head was, \u201cYour point being?\u201d<\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_code disabled_on=”off|off|off” admin_label=”Adsense Horizontal” _builder_version=”4.16″ width=”90%” width_tablet=”90%” width_phone=”” width_last_edited=”on|desktop” max_width=”90%” module_alignment=”center” custom_margin=”|0px||0px|false|false” custom_margin_tablet=”” custom_margin_phone=”|0px||0px|false|false” custom_margin_last_edited=”on|desktop” global_module=”1433″ saved_tabs=”all” global_colors_info=”{}”]