A "Die-in" hosted by Teen Empowerment Boston to draw attention to gun violence in the community

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sometimes-i-say-stuf on May 18th, 2023 at 14:00 UTC »

…I don’t see this as too effective.

The best tactic has always been inconveniencing those in charge. Laying down outside…it’s guaranteed to get a joke from the people inside

Mellopiex on May 18th, 2023 at 15:19 UTC »

Plot twist: they just threw a couple signs on top of fentanyl addicts.

hatsnatcher23 on May 18th, 2023 at 20:04 UTC »

“I was probably about 14 years old and I was involved in demonstrations at this construction site. The community was demanding integration of the workforce. We realized that Malcolm had come to watch the demonstration. When my shift changed, I went across the street to talk to Malcolm. We had quite an argument that morning, and he tried to explain to me what was wrong with me laying down on the ground in front of a cement truck.

And Malcolm said if these are people who could lynch black people, murder black children, enslave people, why couldn’t they run over somebody with a truck? And he said, “Oh, they’d say it was an accident. He’d say, ‘Oops, my foot slipped,’ but you’d be just as dead.” And when he left and I turned around to go back across the street, I went back and I got on the picket line, but I never laid down in the street in front of a truck again.”