Are demonstrations counterproductive?
Of course, the question isn’t new. Perhaps amid the social hurricane formed over the polarizing issue of undocumented immigration, the younger crowd and some not well informed older people may tend to question the effectiveness of demonstrations. Running ahead of this question, there is and almost “official” assumption that demonstrations are counterproductive. Forty-one years ago, the question echoed in the studio of the weekly news program “Meet the press”. Richard Valeriane —NBC News correspondent for 28 years, and who covered the Civil Rights movement— asked Dr. Martin Luther King this question: “Dr. King…recent polls suggest that in terms of national reaction, demonstrations are now counter-productive, by continuing them don’t you run the risk of doing more harm than good?” The question sounds too familiar, doesn’t it? Isn’t the same question we are asked in 2007, as we ride along the raising tides of the immigration debate? Many people on both sides of the fight have come to beli
