Civil disobedience can be entirely peaceful, but disruptive and non-cooperative. Intending quite intentionally to steal time and value, but not safety from othe

Civil disobedience can be entirely peaceful, but disruptive and non-cooperative. Intending quite intentionally to steal time and value, but not safety from others. It is stealing time and effort from the authorities that has achieved change across history. Sometimes with violence which is obviously no longer peaceful, sometimes not. Police time. Court time. Parliamentary discussion time. In the one year XR have existed, surprisingly the issue has surged in the UK opinion polls - ie more in the UK find the climate crisis an important issue than did before. There has been a much increased level of exposure in the media, and in parliament. To me, inconvenient though it may be, that is simply democracy working as intended. An entirely non-disruptive march or demo is, democratically, not a peaceful protest, it's an irrelevance. It's a nice day out and little else, and achieves a similar level of change.