Thoughts on Improving Peaceful Protests
By: Protest Party
Tags: Riots, Peaceful Protest, Event Planning, Police Brutality, Revolution

Our country has lots of problems to say the least, and typically when we know things are wrong but aren’t directly seeing what’s happening day to day, we get used to it being wrong and it becomes dreadfully normal.

Police in D.C. Photo: Ryan Kosmides

Sadly it takes tragedy’s to unite people with common rage. Now rage is fuel, but it’s not the best fuel, and it might get the car going, but after a while it’s going to ruin the engine. Rage being the fuel behind peaceful protests has its pros and cons. On one hand, the numbers of bodies in the street demanding justice would not be so large if it weren’t for that rage. On the other, for a lot of underdeveloped adults, rage leads to violence. Before I go on, I’m not condemning violent outbursts in response to violent crimes, humans are much more complex a being to believe that circumstances don’t merit certain behaviors, whether tolerable or intolerable, so violence, although not great, has its time of day.

However before I sound like I’m choosing sides, it takes work to recognize power in remaining mostly non-violent. So to continue, rage leads to violence in many peaceful protests throughout history. For many, that’s how revolution is achieved, violent, and history shows that. But this is where I have an opinion, if protests are meant to pressure elected officials to make changes and those changes are never made, what happens? We walk up to the giant and demand we destroy it only to get stomped?

Or do we coheres this giant to kneel down and listen?

So a lot of thought went into protesting as you can see, how do you achieve what a protest sets out to achieve without waiting for the next tragedy, in this case the next George Floyd. After these protest lose steam where do we store the energy? How can it be resurrected and transmuted into positive energy? Does rage work as a better fuel, or does love? Or both? What does that protest look like? Fueled by love? What’s that even mean? Well then I got to thinking about what it means to have someone show up to your birthday party say, and attend the festivities of the day. It’s such an act of love of them all to show up at all and celebrate your big day. So can we celebrate the lives we lost as much as the lives we still have?

Is a protest capable of being a large party?

I want to start imagining there. So I close my eyes, and start picturing the people celebrating in the streets, joyfully, maybe passive aggressively, but celebrating, to raise awareness and raise all that money needed to be heard and take action. What’s that look like? I imagine a musician performing songs centrally themed to the objective of the protest, karaoke, dancers in costume, flashing lights, huge signs, large parade floats even. Well now that I’m this far you can probably see how I came up with the term PRO PARTY.

It to me, represents both a professional party and a protest party. Professional parties have purpose. For example, this is for your birthday, this is for Halloween, this is for graduating, a celebration with a purpose is a professional party, meanwhile a party with its only purpose being a good time, can be characterized by some as amateur maybe.

So a PRO PARTY is the organization of performances that entertain our deeper sympathies for issues left in the dark that need a light, but it’s much more. Protest party, professional, progressive or pro-party is also how I can attract like minded thinkers, because the more I talk to people I’m seeing a change.

People are noticing the hate in our hearts is poisonous and contagious, more than any pandemic. Instead of casting judgements and treating each other as separate from us, we want to work to understand the true nature of things, love. Through reconciliation of our individual past traumas, family crisis’, divorces, deaths, heart breaks, illnesses etc. as well as our collective cultural traumas like racism, classism, nationalism, and any other sort of separatism, we can reach the divine true self, our spiritual ancestry, the profound cosmic harmony derived from a single source. The answer to all mankind’s reasons to live, the love.

We can have our revolution, and it begins by looking at ourselves and resetting. It’s here, the movement is strong and as one by one when we close our eyes we can reopen them to the divine truth of oneness. This is not a phase or any fading trend, the popular opinion will continue to shift until we’re ready to replace a irresponsible system.

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