Living-wage protesters jam Post Office Square

Many of the side roads are so narrowed by constant construction that people already have to walk in the street because the single sidewalk left is too narrow, and the traffic is down to a single lane that has to compete with concurrent walk signals with a constant stream of pedestrians. One right turning vehicle corks it.

I can usually get my bike down and through fairly easily, but often have to squeeze around jammed up car traffic to do so.

I was on foot today and I didn't even notice anything different from typical traffic until I crossed Franklin and saw the police cars and heard the chanting.

Yeah, because missing a Little League game is worse than not being able to feed your children, right?

Let us know when you come up with an effective method of protest that doesn't disrupt anyone's life, okay? I'd love to have that in my toolkit.

Yeah, and why can't more white people get lunch at the counter and get back to work quicker. Those black people weren't thinking about all the lost work hours.

No consideration for the people trying to get places like job interviews, medical appointments, Little League games, etc.

The cause might be noble, but don't mess with the lives of other people.

At least they weren't kneeling before a football game!

There is absolutely nothing they can do to get you to care or support their cause and they knew that. The point of this protest is to make their message known. It's a lot more effective then a letter writing campaign as evidenced by this media coverage.

Until a few of them who struggle to pay for it blocked a street, and now I want them to live under the expressway.*

Blocking a street is obnoxious, dopey, and self-serving, but I remain on board with their premise. Myself, I would have blocked the driveway of any citizen who has spoken at any city meeting against the building of additional housing. Somebody leaving work is not your specific enemy. You have specific enemies in this fight. Find them and fight them.

*Facetious and not what I believe

(The Orange Line was fine around this time of day.)

Way to lose supporters, idiots.

Because until you were inconvenienced by this protest, you were a firm advocate and tireless supporter of raising the minimum wage. Right.

I don't know a single working person who drives through the heart of downtown Boston at rush hour and assumes they'll get to their daycare or anywhere else on time. Perhaps you do. Care to give us a cite? Also, were you equally exercised about the daycare-penalty-paying parents of Boston the last time a presidential motorcade or some other kind of kerfluffle disrupted traffic?

I never believed in Civil Disobedience. I have to admit that it's not worth risking arrest, jail, heavy fines, or possible physical assault, or worse, in order to get involved in any kind of cause, especially when it involves disrupting the lives of people who are going about their daily lives and business.

I feel alienated from people who do engage in Civil disobedience now.

Starting with Reagan, there has been a war on organized labor. It has been very effective, To have a strike, workers have to organize. The war on labor makes that very hard to do. I know you'll cite some of the handful of times it happened in the last ten years, but strikes used to be much more frequent, and more effective.