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Protesters calling for cease-fire in Israel-Hamas war block freeway in Seattle for several hours (apnews.com)

submitted 9 months ago by Philo@sh.itjust.works to c/usa@lemmy.ml

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Can someone please calmly explain how blocking a freeway across an ocean and a country on a different continent, is supposed to have any effect on a political issue in the middle east?

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[–] jaybone@lemmy.world -1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

People who work on ambulances love when protestors close roads like this.

[–] verdigris@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Ambulances have dispatch to warn and redirect them, and sirens to force their way down the shoulder to an exit. Effective protest has to have an effect.

[–] Drusas@kbin.social 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Blocking roads is not an effective protest, and rerouting ambulances is not as simple as you make it sound. I used to work dispatch, I would know.

[–] verdigris@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago

"blocking roads is not an effective protest" - source unknown