Friendica Social Network (Leipzig)

Protest and mass mobilization carry risks:

1. Police/military could escalate and crack down.

2. Black bloc might rush into reciprocal violence.

3. Decentralized movements can splinter and lose coherence.

There are resources that can help point the way.

Gene Sharp (RIP): From Dictatorship to Democracy

https://thenewpress.com/books/from-dictatorship-democracy

Also, Erica Chenoweth, Civil Resistance: What Everyone Needs to Know

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/civil-resistance-9780190244408?cc=us&lang=en&

#uspol #democracy #resistance #civildisobedience #nonviolence

From Dictatorship to Democracy

Twenty-one years ago, at a friend’s request, a Massachusetts professor sketched out a blueprint for nonviolent resistance to repressive regimes.

^{The New Press}

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Profile piece (2017) on Gene Sharp in The Progressive.

https://progressive.org/magazine/nonviolence-power-and-possibility-the-life-of-gene-sharp/

Nonviolence, Power, and Possibility: The Life of Gene Sharp

From Syria to Afghanistan to the UC Berkeley campus, we are seeing violence everywhere. Is it inevitable? Sharp argues that while conflict may be inevitable, nonviolence can be just as effective as the opposite.

^{James L. VanHise (Progressive.org)}

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Link to Chenoweth's Non-Violent Action Center at Harvard.

https://ash.harvard.edu/programs/nonviolent-action-lab/

Nonviolent Action Lab – Ash Center

Up-to-date knowledge on nonviolent action, how it works, and global trends in success and failure.

^{Ash Center}

Alexander Karn 1 Monat her •

Chenoweth video (2020): When do mass mobilizations work? (7 mins 48 sec)

https://youtu.be/_y62wT21nBs?si=QUIq-tvky4CcMWNj

- YouTube

Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.

^youtu.be

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Alexander Karn 1 Monat her •

“Get ready to protest with people with whom you otherwise disagree.”

--Timothy Snyder

Alexander Karn 1 Monat her •

50501 protests update. New partnership announced.

https://www.newsweek.com/50501-protests-update-anti-trump-march-50-states-expands-2025741

50501 Protests Update as Anti-Trump March in 50 States Expands

Anti-Trump demonstrations are due to take place in all 50 U.S. state capitols on Wednesday.

^{James Bickerton (Newsweek)}

Alexander Karn 1 Monat her •

Stencil art. Grey lettering on dark background, all caps: "THIS IS NOT NORMAL"

Alexander Karn 1 Monat her •

Many will wonder whether mass demonstrations can achieve anything. They will point to past failures, flash their discouragement, obey in advance.

Here are some things we can accomplish:

1. Cultivate active, engaged citizenship.

2. Build and foster broad solidarity.

3. Incentivize political leadership.

4. Take control of the narrative.

5. Signal to non-Americans that we are not done yet.

5. Take the temperature of police and security forces.

6. Enact a culture of non-violence.

#uspol

#uspol

LukefromDC 1 Monat her •

I would say that if Trump deploys the National Guard, declares martial law, and has protesters shot nonviolence goes out the window fast.

You cannot lie down in front of a column of Nazi Panzers and expect to actually halt them.

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