Direct action is quickly becoming the only effective form of protest

Direct action is quickly becoming the only effective form of protest

Direct action, and the people who undertake it, fascinate me. I sometimes catch myself pretending I could take that step. Then I crash back to reality. Yet the intrigue remains – there’s a wild romanticism to the idea of fucking up your own life in the quest to make someone else’s better. But it’s not just romantic these days – it’s a tangible reality. We are literally watching human beings kill themselves, slowly, painfully, tragically. The onl…