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Joinfortmill

(14,447 posts)
Sun Jan 16, 2022, 11:49 AM Jan 2022

We pass voting rights or we hit the streets in mass protests or else....

we lose our democracy.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190513-it-only-takes-35-of-people-to-change-the-world

The '3.5% rule': How a small minority can change the world

In 1986, millions of Filipinos took to the streets of Manila in peaceful protest and prayer in the People Power movement. The Marcos regime folded on the fourth day.

In 2003, the people of Georgia ousted Eduard Shevardnadze through the bloodless Rose Revolution, in which protestors stormed the parliament building holding the flowers in their hands. While in 2019, the presidents of Sudan and Algeria both announced they would step aside after decades in office, thanks to peaceful campaigns of resistance.

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We pass voting rights or we hit the streets in mass protests or else.... (Original Post) Joinfortmill Jan 2022 OP
It may be the last chance for peaceful protest EYESORE 9001 Jan 2022 #1
Recently retired so I've kacekwl Jan 2022 #2

EYESORE 9001

(25,965 posts)
1. It may be the last chance for peaceful protest
Sun Jan 16, 2022, 12:30 PM
Jan 2022

as well as the last chance for democracy itself. If the fascists win, peaceful protests will be met with militant violence.

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