Ready for civil disobedience and ready for the arrest record?

Civil disobedience, chopping and boycotting and protesting, all interesting phrases and all with a different meaning while those who participate in all of them expect, possibly, the same results. Everyone who tries to express their point of view, tries to protest or we choose, understands those terms and understands the consequences of those events.

But what if someone wants to get involved, support the issues, but doesn’t want to get arrested? Is there room for boycotters like that or for people who want to picket but don’t want to be arrested?

There is such a thing as a peaceful and law-abiding event, a picket, if planned that way. For this week, we hope; we wait and watch the news and see what happens while we wait. Those who don’t mind getting arrested will, of course, gather this week in New York City for a huge protest and civil disobedience. I wonder what will happen tomorrow and on other days of picketing or boycotting or civil disobedience, I really wonder what will happen. I wish there was a peaceful part of the protest where people weren’t arrested. Yeah, I’m not that brave, nor do I have that kind of free time where I could volunteer to get arrested. And I guess I wonder what other mothers and sons and daughters are thinking about this as well. After all, who wants an arrest record on their record, when most spend a lot of time making sure that doesn’t happen in one’s life?