Have you ever participated in a protest?

[Niemeyerite]

I have organized and participated in a protest.

Same here.

And here.

[Mr. Illini]

Mostly smaller-scale stuff, but I have participated in demonstrations on campus regarding drug prohibition and civil liberties violations. It's been a little while, though, as I have moved on to focusing more on the electoral side of things rather than activism.

Really wished I could have attended the People's Climate March, though.

[Simfan34]

I briefly stood around and applauded at a big anti sexual assault rally on campus, does that count? I had been signed up to participate...

[MyRescueKittehRocks]

Tea Party meetings of course. Engaged with Occupy Kansas City because they were protesting a guy I went to hear preach.

[Warren 4 Secretary of Everything]

Whenever we have a test or quiz in my Humanities/AP Art History class a group of us sit on the floor in the front of the class and give speeches protesting while making war chant beats. So yes.

[Sol]

Yes (moral monday).

[The Dowager Mod]

Got arrested for chaining myself to the train tracks at indian point.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I was in a few Occupy Wall Street things.

[Yelnoc]

Since my last post we did a die-in at the mall. Those are fun; y'all should try it.

[Torie]

Yes, just recently, and posted a pic of it.

[Citizen (The) Doctor]

I go to Berkeley so....

[Badger]

Got arrested for chaining myself to the train tracks at indian point.

Texasgurl wins the thread. Now that's hardcore! What was the issue inolved?

Myself, I counter-protested a Klan rally south of Pittsburgh in the mid 80's. My parents were more worried about dropping their suburbanite white kid off in the Hill District to board a charter bus by NAACP HQ.

Then in college I participated in a campus protest against going to war in Iraq--the FIRST Iraq War. God I cringe when I think about that.

[H.E. VOLODYMYR ZELENKSYY]

I marched around UR a while ago after the Ferguson grand jury happened, so I suppose I've lost my chanting-slogans virginity.

[TJ in Oregon]

Only if a "rosary rally" on the steps of Wisconsin state capitol counts. I'm not quite sure that was a protest as I'm not quite sure what we were protesting if it was. There were hecklers who were loudly yelling slurs at the bishop though. That was an odd experience.

[DC Al Fine]

I did March for Life in Ottawa a couple years back.

[RR1997]

Nope.  Never felt strongly enough to want to do that.

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

Yes - a few, in fact.

[The Dowager Mod]

Got arrested for chaining myself to the train tracks at indian point.

Texasgurl wins the thread. Now that's hardcore! What was the issue inolved?

Myself, I counter-protested a Klan rally south of Pittsburgh in the mid 80's. My parents were more worried about dropping their suburbanite white kid off in the Hill District to board a charter bus by NAACP HQ.

Then in college I participated in a campus protest against going to war in Iraq--the FIRST Iraq War. God I cringe when I think about that.

Indian point is one of the most unsafe nuclear plants in the U.S. and it's only 25 miles from NYC, good luck evacuating if anything ever happened.

[Simfan34]

Got arrested for chaining myself to the train tracks at indian point.

For shame!

[Chunk Yogurt for President!]

I wanted to participate in the protests against intervening in Syria last year.

[Oldiesfreak1854]

No, but I'd like to organize one.

[Redalgo]

No, not in the way the OP is inquiring about. I tend to avoid protests due to their negative messages and single-sidedness on complex issues. Plus, to be honest I do not see the point of it in a town like mine where about two-thirds of the voting population is either conservative or reactionary.

I do however walk out during the middle of speeches at local meetings, candidate fundraisers, party functions, etc. whenever the message digresses into very partisan, cynical, or bigoted comments concerning the opposition. I've also stopped attending the weekly meetings held by a local secular humanist group on account of their verbal violence towards believers and nearly did the same for a non-profit benefiting children after its president told a guest speaker that "we fight against the Muslim each and every day," in that case only really sticking around because most of the members are decent and the charitable causes taken on are worth putting up with occasional discomfort.

Rather than protest out on the streets I tend to stay very active on a local newspaper's website, and at some point will be begin posting on a blog that will often criticize established policy in conjunction with a campaign for office.

[Yelnoc]

No, not in the way the OP is inquiring about. I tend to avoid protests due to their negative messages and single-sidedness on complex issues. Plus, to be honest I do not see the point of it in a town like mine where about two-thirds of the voting population is either conservative or reactionary.

I do however walk out during the middle of speeches at local meetings, candidate fundraisers, party functions, etc. whenever the message digresses into very partisan, cynical, or bigoted comments concerning the opposition. I've also stopped attending the weekly meetings held by a local secular humanist group on account of their verbal violence towards believers and nearly did the same for a non-profit benefiting children after its president told a guest speaker that "we fight against the Muslim each and every day," in that case only really sticking around because most of the members are decent and the charitable causes taken on are worth putting up with occasional discomfort.

Rather than protest out on the streets I tend to stay very active on a local newspaper's website, and at some point will be begin posting on a blog that will often criticize established policy in conjunction with a campaign for office.

A long winded way of admitting your moral (and physical) cowardice.

[Redalgo]

I have a more collaborative, less aggressive approach to getting my points across than some folk. If you want to call it cowardice that is fine. Maybe it is. Maybe it is a difference in personality. Maybe I am just too jaded from having nobody to align with locally. Maybe I'm rubbish with networking and couldn't get anyone to show up if I tried to organize anything. Who knows?

[Simfan34]

I have a more collaborative, less aggressive approach to getting my points across than some folk. If you want to call it cowardice that is fine. Maybe it is. Maybe it is a difference in personality. Maybe I am just too jaded from having nobody to align with locally. Maybe I'm rubbish with networking and couldn't get anyone to show up if I tried to organize anything. Who knows?

There's nothing "collaborative" about not bathing. It's a very aggressive thing to do, actually. But Yelnoc is right, of course. You walk out of a meeting. How very brave and liberated from the shackles of social norms, etc.