Ending an authoritarian regime requires a level of mass participation that we’ve rarely seen in this country.
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.
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.
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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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