Protesters Closed 16th Street At I-10 This Afternoon. Complete Idiocy (house, live)

[jimj]

The manifesto these loons are protesting for reads like something from a socialist anarchists handbook. Hopefully this will lead to multiple arrests for blocking traffic and disturbing the peace!

A planned protest Friday afternoon prompted police and DPS troopers to block the freeway ramps on I-10 and 16th Street.
The "Say No to Fascism" protest got underway in the area at 4 p.m.

We stand with ALL IMMIGRANTS--DOCUMENTED AND UNDOCUMENTED.
We stand with our MUSLIM brothers and sisters against ISLAMOPHOBIA.
We stand with our BLACK brothers and sisters against POLICE BRUTALITY and proclaim that BLACK LIVES MATTER.
We stand with ALL communities of COLOR against all forms of RACISM.
We stand with FIRST NATIONS, our INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES, and with STANDING ROCK, and declare that the DAKOTA ACCESS PIPELINE, SOUTH MOUNTAIN FREEWAY, and all forms of COLONIZATION will no...t be tolerated.
We stand with the TRANS and ***** communities against all forms of inequality, HOMOPHOBIA, AND TRANSPHOBIA.
We stand with WOMEN and demand equal treatment, access to healthcare, equal pay, and to SMASH PATRIARCHY AND MISOGYNY.
We stand with WORKERS, the ENVIRONMENT, for UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE, and for all people and communities struggling against OPPRESSION."

Anti-fascism protest underway near I-10 and 16th St., DPS blocks - CBS 5 - KPHO

[Prickly Pear]

It's funny how people don't care about human rights until it interferes with convenience.

[Jnvlv247]

Originally Posted by Prickly Pear

It's funny how people don't care about human rights until it interferes with convenience.

It's funny how they probably won't do this in 110 degrees

[jimj]

Originally Posted by Prickly Pear

It's funny how people don't care about human rights until it interferes with convenience.

It's funny how the people who protest for open borders and free stuff while blocking traffic aren't the ones actually inconvenienced going to or from work to PAY for those "free" things...

[PHX Newbie]

I missed the part where they were demanding "Free Stuff".

While I don't agree with every demand (i.e. South Mountain Freeway), the list is pretty much a recipe for a decent society where we're each reasonable and responsible.

[azriverfan.]

It's funny how these people will spend hours protesting but not voting

I'm socially liberal and don't endorse much of what Trump stands for. But I think these people are idiots and are crying sour grapes. Their candidate lost because they were too lazy to vote. Voter apathy is just a nice way of saying Voter laziness.

And even these charges of voter suppression are complete nonsense. They make it so easy to vote. They mail you a ballot months in advance. All you have to do is fill it out and drop it in the mail. Where is the excuse now?

Jan Brewer makes a public comment that suggested Hispanic voters in this state do not vote. Did that stir the community and make them angry and motivate them to register to vote and actively vote. Nope!

The Hispanic community in AZ was complaining because lawmakers prevented a service where one person came to your house and picked up your ballots for you and mailed it. Sure, their intent was to minimize Hispanic votes; I get that. But God forbid, you mean you can't mail your own ballot??? And that is the reason you didn't vote??

I'm Hispanic or Mexican American and I don't have much sympathy for the Hispanic community in Arizona. Here you had a candidate who openly professed racist policies and made stereotypical negative comments about the Hispanic community, and the Hispanic community still didn't vote here. Call a spade a spade. There is just no excuse for that. I would rather the Hispanic community spend less time protesting and more time voting.

[LBTRS]

Originally Posted by azriverfan.

It's funny how these people will spend hours protesting but not voting

Amen!

[gbpakrfan]

It's funny that this is like an "All You Can Protest" buffet with an unlimited menu. Maybe these goofballs will get all of their protesting out of their system after this one. Then they'll need to put their pacifiers and diaper safety pins in the pockets of their pajamas as they twiddle their thumbs in their snowflake safe spaces, waiting for someone else to say or do something that offends their ultrasensitive selves.

[azriverfan.]

Originally Posted by gbpakrfan

It's funny that this is like an "All You Can Protest" buffet with an unlimited menu. Maybe these goofballs will get all of their protesting out of their system after this one. Then they'll need to put their pacifiers and diaper safety pins in the pockets of their pajamas as they twiddle their thumbs in their snowflake safe spaces, waiting for someone else to say or do something that offends their ultrasensitive selves.

What these protesters fail to understand is that no one is going to take them seriously until they actually vote. You can protest all you want but it is meaningless unless its on a ballot.

[Prickly Pear]

"omg no you should protest the system the way the system wants you to protest!" Gee, then it's not really a protest if you're cooperating with the very thing you are protesting against, no?

MLK led many protests blocking roadways. Clearly it has worked before because the Civil Rights Movement was a success. It's getting their protest coverage which means it's working now. People only listen when they are inconvenienced. Which is a damn shame that many people prioritize less traffic over the basic rights of others.

It's real privilege to be able to ignore these issues because they don't affect you. For a large chunk of our population (women, LGBTQIA+, and/or POC), these issues ridicule them every day. They interfere with their livelihood.

Many people feel that no party (and really no party will as a whole) will defend their rights and have given up voting as a whole. This in large is the Hispanic community in Arizona as someone brought up earlier. Many feel that they do not have any power. Our government makes sure they have less power than other people. It has done so since our foundation and clearly likes to continue doing so with the Muslim ban.

Go around and ask how many people have given up cause they don't see real change ever occurring within our government. It was almost half of all Americans in this Presidential election. They saw both of the candidates as a trash fire (which they are) and decided not to vote. That mindset applies locally as well.

Without the help of those who have the power, this dynamic really will not change. Too many people are complicit in what atrocities continue to be done on a regular basis. Because they are privileged and it does not affect them, so they can afford to be apolitical. Some people cannot be. Without people demanding real change and what they want our government to do/provide in some cases (which is always in the form of a protest, it's a protected right for a reason) we won't really get the results they want.

I'm proud of these people protesting peacefully (you can see them standing on the sidewalk) holding signs over the freeway to try to get their message out and change things for the better. What are you doing (or even attempting to do) to change our political system for the better, huh? Post anonymously about politics on a forum about cities? Yeah, cause that is what really changes things.