Why So Many Protests Play Out on Highways

To march on a highway is to declare bravery in the face of danger — and an unwillingness to lose

Ray Levy Uyeda
GEN
Published in
6 min readOct 9, 2020

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A protest for justice for Breonna Taylor in New York City. Photo: David Dee Delgado/Getty Images

Residence in America requires interaction with its vast network of highways. Yet the American highway system, born to defend against foreign military attacks and to transport commodities, is redundant. America and its highways are…

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Ray Levy Uyeda
GEN
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Bay Area based writer and poet. Retweets: @raylevyuyeda