“Nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts – and those engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change.”
Everyone I know involved in nonviolent protests is also currently fighting legal battles for people who got hospitalized unprovoked by police at said legally organized nonviolent protests.
I’m just gonna leave this here:
“Nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts – and those engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20190513-it-only-takes-35-of-people-to-change-the-world
Everyone I know involved in nonviolent protests is also currently fighting legal battles for people who got hospitalized unprovoked by police at said legally organized nonviolent protests.
From your lips to whoever’s listening out there. I fear that the sheer number of weapons out there will make any nonviolence quite tenuous