“If the systems hold, it will be because organizers held the systems to account.” That’s Harvard researcher Erika Chenoweth talking to Andrew Marantz of the New Yorker about how nonviolent civil resistance movements win their struggles with would-be authoritarians. Written before this past week’s events, the article very nicely captures how a loose group of activists and researchers informed by decades of scholarship on nonviolence prepared for the election, and why they didn’t counsel panic when President Trump started to claim victory Election Night.
We’re Not Done Yet
We’re Not Done Yet
We’re Not Done Yet
“If the systems hold, it will be because organizers held the systems to account.” That’s Harvard researcher Erika Chenoweth talking to Andrew Marantz of the New Yorker about how nonviolent civil resistance movements win their struggles with would-be authoritarians. Written before this past week’s events, the article very nicely captures how a loose group of activists and researchers informed by decades of scholarship on nonviolence prepared for the election, and why they didn’t counsel panic when President Trump started to claim victory Election Night.