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building program that recruits the grassroots, leadership development, skills training, issue education, research, capacity to field diverse messages and framing, systems to make it work together, and the expertise to know how to run it all.
Most protest movements lack that. They are usually
building program that recruits the grassroots, leadership development, skills training, issue education, research, capacity to field diverse messages and framing, systems to make it work together, and the expertise to know how to run it all.
Most protest movements lack that. They are usually
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driven on social or legacy media, led and staffed by career activists or political operatives, and rely on public protest and social media to recruit people. Those are some of the reasons why those types of movements tend to fizzle or never reach critical mass
Here are two things to
read if you want more info:
No Shortcuts by Jane McAlevey
The 2021 Political Typology by Pew. In the absence of a full blown power analysis, that report should be a wake up on the challenges of expanding beyond the 6% of the population who ID as progressive