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CDC workers walk out, join former employees in protest calling on RFK Jr. to resign (www.axios.com)
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Current and former employees of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are calling on Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to resign, warning that job cuts and proposed funding reductions will hurt the agency's ability to protect the public from future health outbreaks.

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[–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I finally saw your link in the text, it did not show up in the response very clearly , and only saw it when I viewed here again.

I don’t think that article is relevant to my opinion which is that no protest whether peaceful or violent can undo the policy changes.

But think some protests can help rescue people from being kidnapped, but that is not a change undoing the sabotage of vital institutions.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I had a bit of a brain fart and hit wrong button posting before I had fully written. That's on me not on you.

    And yes protesting isn't going to change policy directly. Only new policy will change policy. But protests often leads to new policy.

    They're going to look for every reason to discount and disregard protests however. Specifically highlighting any small instances of violence. And specifically because it can change policy eventually.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    But protests often leads to new policy.

    If the leadership is either democratically elected or authoritarian. Here, it is neither, but instead a mishmash of things that do not respond much to protests of any type . At most protests will lead to superficial changes

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