So, anyone here in Portland?

[classicdrogn]

Good gods, Raj, at least google the thing before you dismiss its relevance. The Greenham protest achieved its primary goal (removing a stockpile of nuclear missiles from the local military base) in 1991, then kept on for nine more years to further general nuclear disarmament. This isn't a "sometimes you lose" thing, they won. Hell, having gone almost the entire time (there were a couple of incidents at the beginning and a few months in IIRC, having only gone through it quickly myself just now) as an inarguably peaceful protest, it's as much argument for your side in that respect, even if it's not on everyone's tongues now. I don't remember things that quietly went right in my personal life from twenty years ago either let alone thirty, you know what I remember? Fuckups and disasters, and sometimes barely turning one in my favor by dumb luck. That's the kind of mark on history we don't need to make more of.