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# e06: Disruptive protest
- URL: https://mehrankhalili.com/e06/
- Published: 2022-09-22T09:33:23.000Z
- Updated: 2023-08-23T12:17:37.000Z
- Description: Miriam Meyer is a young activist who gets arrested regularly, for blocking roads with the climate action group Last Generation. In this candid interview, I speak to her about the fine line between pushing your proposals, and turning the public against you.
- Author: Mehran Khalili
- Tags: Subvrt Podcast, Case Studies, #Import 2023-05-10 22:28, #mkhalili

## An interview with Miriam Meyer

Disruptive protest, with Miriam Meyer (Episode 6)

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### About this episode

We're entering a difficult winter here in Europe, with a cost of living crisis and an escalating war in Ukraine. Analysts are [predicting](https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/cost-of-living-crisis-set-to-prompt-social-unrest-across-europe-poll-finds/) a season of activism and civil unrest.

So now is a good time to look at the kinds of protest tactics that force you to pick a side.

My guest is Miriam Meyer, a young German activist with the environmental group [Last Generation](https://letztegeneration.de/). She's been getting arrested full time for blocking busy German motorways.

In this interview, done [live for DiEM TV in June 2022](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abURomeW8rU), we discuss how the group has organised for impact just a few months. And we debate those controversial tactics: does stopping people from getting to work really help your cause?

Miriam gave some thoughtful answers in this interview that we can all learn from. I hope you'll get value out of it for your own activist projects.

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