Comedian, activist and author Mark Thomas talks dissent, tax and people power.
You just committed 100 acts of dissent for your new book. Is dissent more fun than protest?
They can be the same thing. Is it more fun? Yes. Protest is a tool. I think sometimes activists mistake the tool for the end objective. We get very defensive about our right to have a camp at Point A, when the camp is actually about climate change. It’s quite simple: if someone says you can’t use one tool, find another one.
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