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No more business as usual," the organization leading the protest said on social media.

Dozens of Jewish protesters and their allies were arrested on Wednesday morning after they blocked rush hour traffic on a busy Los Angeles highway to demand a ceasefire in Israel’s war on Palestinians in Gaza.

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[–] bamboo@lemm.ee 45 points 9 months ago (19 children)

A non-disruptive protest just gets ignored. You need to impact people’s daily lives to make them think why the problem arose in the first place.

[–] EatYouWell@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago (10 children)

But, you need to impact the lives of the people who have the means to make that change. A traffic jam isn't going to do that.

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (7 children)

Traffic jam equals lots of news coverage lots of pissed off voters, lots of attention lots of eyes, that is how you get to people who can make a change.

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