Okay, well, that's something. It's still not exactly clear. This not being my cause, I am not particularly motivated to do a bunch of digging to determine what the issues are, what's at stake and what changes have or ought to be made. If you're going to raise an issue to be addressed by the public at large, would it be so difficult to just write, say, a blog post or an article that deals with all of this clearly and in sufficient detail that people understand what it is you want?
The occupy movement had this same problem. They didn't have a particular objective and were just vaguely against greed or something and really worked up about it. At that point you're just protesting to protest.
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Originally Posted by RubberDuck
If you close down that road to Ft. Mac, I would say violence is inevitable. You start to mess with people's abilty to earn a living or get home to their families, someone will cross the line.
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Given the largely male, largely young, blue-collar workers we're talking about, I would say that you're probably right. Only it would be more like several hundred people crossing the line at once. The thing is, there are an awful lot of First Nations who work in oilsands-related industry up there, and I'm not too sure the movement will get the kind of unified support it's hoping for if they plan to carry out that threat.