I’ve been to two protest BLM protest and no kings day celebration protest. BLM protest was intimidating at first because I Parked close to the event and police had us surrounded and were gasing us, but that ended with them putting their shield and bats down as symbolic way of ending hostilities. No Kings day was way more chill and no confrontation with authorities that I witnessed but some happened before I got there, other than that it was mostly talking to people and expressing yourself in public.
There’s fun stories
Sometimes it can be fun, I’ve had a fair bit of fun during some rallies by handing my megaphone to loads of different people, we had a counter protest back in April that turned into a dance party too.
I’ve also been to plenty of scary ones. I had one where I had to run away from violent cops and change into a different outfit behind dumpsters. Sometimes the adrenaline can be fun if it’s a more spicy action, usually the nerves go away once you get started.
Not especially, I’ve always had claustrophobia in large crowds, even stuff like concerts. I’m maybe too keenly aware of how easily people can get trampled in crowds.
That would be complicated. I haven’t actually been to a concert in a while, but I know with protest you can hang back like you won’t see the action but you avoid the cluster of people. Sometimes the crowd of people is like 1-2 blocks big
I’ve been to many protests, and oddly enough i enjoy the feeling of freedom. Normal traffic rules don’t apply and there are no cars, suddely you can walk in the middle of the street which is normally a forbidden space. You can dance, you can shoot fireworks in the middle of town, you can do loads of things that you normally can’t.
Normally there’s a nebulous sense that this space doesn’t belong to us, it belongs to landlords and the state maybe? You don’t feel a sense of ownership. But when it’s being taken over by people in an unorganized way, now it feels like this space belongs to you.
And yes i’m french lmao
Do you by chance have French ancestors?
Jokes a side, it’s a great feeling seeing people care enough to stand up for the same issues you care. As well as quite a lot of adrenaline being pumped into you as you don’t know what might be going on next and just living moment by moment. So it’s understandable that you may enjoy it.
I may or may not be related to John Brown. The guy who tried to free the slaves before the civil war in America.
I definitely did have shakes early on in the kings protest, it really was like climbing to the peak of a roller coaster, but payoff is way different. You definitely have to react to things you can not expect.
I did enjoy going up to trump supporters with my Palestine flag and trying to empathize with him not being part of a popular movement
I have sensory issues and don’t handle crowds or noise well, I have fun for a little bit if it’s not all too crowded, but then I crash hard while still there. After 1st of May I slept 19:00-11:00. And that’s in a country where the very worst I’ve personally witnessed police do was surround and unjustly arrest people. But if I can spare the resources, it’s totally worth it.
No, I only attend out of necessity. I don’t enjoy crowds or confrontation.
I don’t like multitudes so no. They tend to be stressful. And for the ones I went alone without knowing anyone I felt a lot of social anxiety.
But sometimes you gotta go even if it’s not pleasant.
They can be a lot of fun
