Kids to Government: Save Our Park
Aloma Jardine,
Times & Transcript,
Aug 27, 2008
We had a nice story recently here in Moncton. City equipment moved into a local park to take out the aging playground equipment and, after doing some sewer repairs, replace the park with a parking lot. About 100 kids use the park, and enough of them were alert enough to stage a protest and block the workers. After four days, the provincial government stepped in and announced that it would fund the rebuilding of the park after the sewer work was done. People say to me sometimes: protesting doesn't work. I think it's pretty clear from examples like this that, if your cause is just, protesting does work (which is why authoritarian regimes like dictatorships and schools are so quick to clamp down on it).
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