Nonviolent Tactics

While listening to the Dolores Huerta speech I couldn’t help but think about the impact of nonviolence tactic. Violence is an approach that I am more familiar with. When I was in third grade the attack on the Twin Towers happened, and shortly after President Bush declared war, so growing up I remember a lot of talk about war and deaths. Hearing about Dolores Huerta’s speech showed me that while there may be a lot of violence there will always be people that try to fight with their will. It was interesting to hear about how the police officers would attack the protestors and they would just sit there and take it. It must have been hard for the men to sit there and see their wives, sisters, and mothers nonviolently protesting the unfair working conditions. I know that a lot of men can be short tempered and they would fight back. Thinking about all nonviolent tactics that people like Martin Luther King Junior, Gandhi, and César Chavez participated reminded me of the protest that happened in U.C Davis a few years back. A chain of students were sitting and protesting the tuition hike and the police officers came up and peppered sprayed the students. It is great to see that there are people who are participated in nonviolent tactics today because it shows that there doesn’t have to be violence to get your voice heard.