persistence: The suffragettes' battle for the vote is celebrated as a great victory for direct action, but 100 years later the struggle for women's equality is still being waged within countless institutions, according to The Guardian. Creating lasting change takes political skill, as well as passion and persistence. Every employer, school and household can make decisions that turn away from chaos. For democracies to solve difficult problems like climate change and inequality, schools need to teach practical politics as a basic skill. Extinction Rebellion places too much emphasis on number of arrests. Titus Alexander Author of Practical Politics Lessons in Power and Democracy; convener, Democracy Matters I agree with Ben Smoke that it's important not to fetishise the number of arrests in relation to current protests.
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