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Another protest march shuts Cambridge intersections
By adamg on Fri, 12/12/2014 - 7:11pm
Central Square photographed a Black Lives Matter die-in at Mass. Ave. and Prospect in Central Square.
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Preaching To The Choir
Do this in Foxboro, Abington, or Wilmington and I will be impressed. You are just blocking the bike lanes here.
I'd be more impressed
if these Harvard kids laid down in the road in a location where there was demonstrable abuse by the local police. This is Cambridge, boys and girls, and though once upon a time you could have made that case, these days the local cops are about as reasonable as they come.
So load up your BMWs and Priuses and Hubway Bikes and head elsewhere, Freedom Riders.
Hubway costs 85/yr, $50 for
Hubway costs 85/yr, $50 for harvard staff and students. How much do you spend on car payments, gas and insurance? More than that? Then you are the rich elitest. Your just a rich person who doesnt give a crap about anyone but yourself, while the protesters are spending a friday night trying to make a positive change in the world, and they are accomplishing their mission of getting people to talk about it.
I know Robert Winters. He's not a "rich person"
He and I don't agree at all on this particular topic, but he is not in any way a "rich elitist".
He's a tut-tutting, finger
He's a tut-tutting, finger-shaking, againsty, do-nothing whiner though.
Do you like being lectured to
by strangers, in publc, who are making it difficult to get to or get home from a job, do food shopping, etc.?
And since when is this hackneyed subject not 'discussed' ad nauseam?
Yes, I'm sure they made a
Yes, I'm sure they made a positive impression on all the rich folks who were stuck on busses last night.
I'm with the protesters on many things, but disrupting roads and transit (not to mention a kid's event on the Common) isn't a good look. Sure it gets attention, but it also screws over the regular folks and gets the cops some lucrative overtime. There has to be a better way.
Listen, these Harvard
Listen, these Harvard students are the REAL victims here. Did you hear they don't have as much study time now? OH THE HUMANITY!
Laughing all the way to the bank
Good point on the OT. You protest against cops, and it makes more money for the cops.
nation wide
Robert,
most Harvard students live elsewhere. Additionaly the protesters gathered in the yard first where they talked and listened to speakers. Have you not noticed that these demonstrations are poping up accross the nation. Spontaniously, peacefully, in solidarity with all the victims of discrimination and police violence. I too live in Cambridge but am connected to the injustices perpetrated on my brothers and sisters elsewhere.
Forget Blue Hill Ave
That's somewhere past Park Street station. May as well be in Missouri. I'll bet you a days pay that not two per cent of these "Cambridge" protesters lying down at Mass Ave and Prospect could pinpoint, within four blocks, where the Washington/Elms projects are, in Cambridge. And if they have "brothers and sisters" they're referred to as "legacies" and not siblings.
Shouldn't they be studying
Shouldn't they be studying for the finals ?
Haven't you heard? Many
Haven't you heard? Many students want final exams postponed because they were too busy protesting.
http://www.whdh.com/story/27589644/students-want-exam-delays-amid-brown-...
Well, I guess this is the result of the "everyone gets a trophy" generation aka millenials growing up.
They'll just cry about being
They'll just cry about being traumatized from their funtesting and push to get them delayed again.
http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/12/10/harvard-law-students-request...
Oh, *that* explains the helicopters and the police cars I saw
As I was biking into Boston for an unrelated event around 7 pm, I heard helicopters overhead, and saw police cars with blue lights flashing on both sides of Mass. Ave at Memorial Drive. I guess I was very near this event, but didn't see or hear it because I entered Mass Ave from Windsor Street instead of passing through Central Square.
Until
They start talking about black crime, 90% of America wont pay attention.
BlackCrimeMatters
Just saying, it was a factor in both cases which nobody wants to talk about.
WhatAboutIsm
Silly person fell for WhatAboutIsm: Police are using excessive force and killing unarmed black men!! Well what about black on black crime?
Crime with black alleged perp on a black person 91%
Crime with white alleged perp on a white person 80%
Death penalty
I wasn't aware that stealing cigars and selling loose cigarettes were crimes punishable by death now, especially without a trial.
Meanwhile, the white guy who shot up a movie theater, actually killing people, is alive and awaiting trial.
Protests hurt bus passengers the most
These protests hurt bus passengers the most.
People on foot could walk on the sidewalk as usual. People on bikes or in cars could get around the blockage on alternate routes. But anyone on on a bus, or waiting for one, was delayed for at least an hour, maybe more.
I saw a lot of people get off buses and walk when the bus got stuck. So the people who suffered the most were elderly and people with disabilities who are unable to walk longer distances.
I did what I could -- I attempted to notify people waiting at bus stops downstream of the blockage that they should give up on the bus and walk.