Protests aren’t the only tool in the anti-authoritarian toolkit, but they’re incredibly important. Protests help us see each other; they make it feel safer to refuse to obey the dictator, and make it more possible for us to organize mass non-cooperation.
It’s an essential step in the process.
It’s an essential step in the process.
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But I wanted them to see me and know they have men like me on their side, that it’s OK to resist.
It is the only way this ends is with citizens in the streets!
Young people don’t listen to old people! It’s a right of passage I think.
It’s up to you! I organized my first protest when I was 11, and that’s way before internet. I’m so psyched to young people there
Usually the only feedback my parents get that they aren't the only Dems in the area is the even-year reading of the federal election results. 'There were protests HERE?' can be a powerful thing.
The protests were big but that’s not good enough. They have to be outside the White House when Trump is inside.
He was a thousand miles away playing golf.
Mubarak didn’t step down until the Egyptians were outside the palace.
(strangers) who feel the same way I do! Canton,MI well represented in marchers and so much supportive honking as people drove by!!
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Mass protests are an opportunity for regular people to join the movement, and to demonstrate (literally) to everyone that it’s safe and popular to take part. They help build the movement.
But, protests help the movement get to the scale needed to achieve breakthrough.
Dictators want people to be afraid. Movements win by making participation feel good.
Putin's regime uses protests in russia to release steam from russian society, so in effect, people are calming down after the protests even so they haven't achieved anything.
Every protest should have an effect.
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