sust-mar: A Picket a Day Keeps the Doctor Away

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Originally published in Alternatives, Spring 2003, the water issue
http://www.alternativesjournal.ca
Cited in JustNews, newsletter of the Canadian Unitarians for Social Justice
http://www.cuc.ca/links/cusj.htm

Taking part in protests can be good for your Health, a new British study
suggests.Psychologists at the University of Sussex found that people who get
involved in campaigns, strikes and political demonstrations experience an
improvement in psychological well-being that can help them overcome stress,
pain, anxiety and depression.

The unpublished results emerged from in-depth interviews with nearly 40
activists who had participated in a range of activities, including
traditional marches, fox-hunt sabotages, anti-capitalist street parties,
environmental direct actions and industrial mass pickets.

Lead researcher John Drury suggests the results should send more people into
the streets. "Collective actions, such as protests, strikes, occupations and
demonstrations are less common in the UK than they were perhaps 20 years
ago," says Drury. "The take-home message from this research therefore might
be that people should get more involved in campaigns, struggles and social
movements, not only in the wider interest of social change, but also for
their own personal good."

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