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Nonviolence, Power, and Possibility: The Life of Gene Sharp
From Syria to Afghanistan to the UC Berkeley campus, we are seeing violence everywhere. Is it inevitable? Sharp argues that while conflict may be inevitable, nonviolence can be just as effective as t...
progressive.org
Gene Sharp was a civil resistance pioneer. His ideas continue to guide activist today.
I interviewed him 2X & wrote 4 articles about him, this one in 2017 for @theprogressivemag.bsky.social
@indivisible.org
progressive.org/magazine/nonviolence-power-and-possibility-the-life-of-gene-sharp/
I interviewed him 2X & wrote 4 articles about him, this one in 2017 for @theprogressivemag.bsky.social
@indivisible.org
progressive.org/magazine/nonviolence-power-and-possibility-the-life-of-gene-sharp/
“Authoritarianism often takes a precise, technical approach to dismantling democracy. It’s not always about sudden, violent takeovers. Usually, democratic backsliding is a careful process of erosion, where each small step makes the once outrageous appear normal.”
www.codastory.com/rewriting-hi...
www.codastory.com/rewriting-hi...
How Democracies Die: The Script for a Three-Act Play - Coda Story
In Trump’s America, the plot is starting to seem all too familiar
www.codastory.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:51 PM
“Authoritarianism often takes a precise, technical approach to dismantling democracy. It’s not always about sudden, violent takeovers. Usually, democratic backsliding is a careful process of erosion, where each small step makes the once outrageous appear normal.”
www.codastory.com/rewriting-hi...
www.codastory.com/rewriting-hi...
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Spotify is running ads to help ICE recruit more agents to infringe our rights and terrorize our communities. We’re calling on users to stop paying for or using the app until Spotify stops streaming fascism: indivisible.org/cancel-spoti...
November 11, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Spotify is running ads to help ICE recruit more agents to infringe our rights and terrorize our communities. We’re calling on users to stop paying for or using the app until Spotify stops streaming fascism: indivisible.org/cancel-spoti...
In the 1970s my middle class family was able to send me to a private university without student loans. My career earned me enough money to buy a house & have a comfortable retirement.
Back then the highest earners were taxed at 70%. Today the top tax bracket is 41%.
There is a connection.
Back then the highest earners were taxed at 70%. Today the top tax bracket is 41%.
There is a connection.
November 11, 2025 at 6:14 PM
In the 1970s my middle class family was able to send me to a private university without student loans. My career earned me enough money to buy a house & have a comfortable retirement.
Back then the highest earners were taxed at 70%. Today the top tax bracket is 41%.
There is a connection.
Back then the highest earners were taxed at 70%. Today the top tax bracket is 41%.
There is a connection.
Looking for some new actions to energize your social justice campaign?
This free book suggests more than 346 nonviolent tactics.
Download - www.nonviolent-conflict.org/resource/civ...
Database - www.tactics.nonviolenceinternational.net
@nvintl.bsky.social @civilresistance.bsky.social
This free book suggests more than 346 nonviolent tactics.
Download - www.nonviolent-conflict.org/resource/civ...
Database - www.tactics.nonviolenceinternational.net
@nvintl.bsky.social @civilresistance.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Looking for some new actions to energize your social justice campaign?
This free book suggests more than 346 nonviolent tactics.
Download - www.nonviolent-conflict.org/resource/civ...
Database - www.tactics.nonviolenceinternational.net
@nvintl.bsky.social @civilresistance.bsky.social
This free book suggests more than 346 nonviolent tactics.
Download - www.nonviolent-conflict.org/resource/civ...
Database - www.tactics.nonviolenceinternational.net
@nvintl.bsky.social @civilresistance.bsky.social
Conservatives had a vision for the US & worked for decades to make it come true: outlawing abortion, privatizing education, slashing the federal government, controlling the courts. Their long game plan is finally coming to fruition.
What is the Democrat long-term vision? Unknown.
What is the Democrat long-term vision? Unknown.
November 10, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Conservatives had a vision for the US & worked for decades to make it come true: outlawing abortion, privatizing education, slashing the federal government, controlling the courts. Their long game plan is finally coming to fruition.
What is the Democrat long-term vision? Unknown.
What is the Democrat long-term vision? Unknown.
If I were a Democrat, I'd be very embarrassed today.
Regardless of the merits of this agreement, it makes them look weak, cowardly, ineffectual, divided, stupid and incompetent.
Like the GOP, they see their donors as their constituents.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
Regardless of the merits of this agreement, it makes them look weak, cowardly, ineffectual, divided, stupid and incompetent.
Like the GOP, they see their donors as their constituents.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
8 Senators Break Ranks With Democrats and Advance G.O.P. Plan to End Shutdown
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:48 PM
If I were a Democrat, I'd be very embarrassed today.
Regardless of the merits of this agreement, it makes them look weak, cowardly, ineffectual, divided, stupid and incompetent.
Like the GOP, they see their donors as their constituents.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
Regardless of the merits of this agreement, it makes them look weak, cowardly, ineffectual, divided, stupid and incompetent.
Like the GOP, they see their donors as their constituents.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
Why did so many working-class people vote for Trump, despite his authoritarian tendencies?
Because democracy means nothing to those struggling every day to make ends meet, to find affordable childcare, health care and housing.
Dems need to address these issues if they want to preserve democracy.
Because democracy means nothing to those struggling every day to make ends meet, to find affordable childcare, health care and housing.
Dems need to address these issues if they want to preserve democracy.
November 9, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Why did so many working-class people vote for Trump, despite his authoritarian tendencies?
Because democracy means nothing to those struggling every day to make ends meet, to find affordable childcare, health care and housing.
Dems need to address these issues if they want to preserve democracy.
Because democracy means nothing to those struggling every day to make ends meet, to find affordable childcare, health care and housing.
Dems need to address these issues if they want to preserve democracy.
The Long March Against Fascism
Durham, NC
November 2, 2025
Organized by @ed4d.bsky.social
“Democracy won’t die on our watch!”
More videos on my YouTube channel - youtube.com/@fragments8667
Durham, NC
November 2, 2025
Organized by @ed4d.bsky.social
“Democracy won’t die on our watch!”
More videos on my YouTube channel - youtube.com/@fragments8667
November 9, 2025 at 5:56 PM
The Long March Against Fascism
Durham, NC
November 2, 2025
Organized by @ed4d.bsky.social
“Democracy won’t die on our watch!”
More videos on my YouTube channel - youtube.com/@fragments8667
Durham, NC
November 2, 2025
Organized by @ed4d.bsky.social
“Democracy won’t die on our watch!”
More videos on my YouTube channel - youtube.com/@fragments8667
Dorothy Day, co-founder of the Catholic Worker movement, was born on this day in 1897.
“Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system.”
“Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system.”
November 8, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Dorothy Day, co-founder of the Catholic Worker movement, was born on this day in 1897.
“Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system.”
“Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system.”
“This battle is a stark reminder that we will continue to be forced to play a rigged game as long as our people don’t build enough power and solidarity to fundamentally change the rules and who is making them.”
@convergencemag.com
convergencemag.com/articles/in-...
@convergencemag.com
convergencemag.com/articles/in-...
In North Carolina, Winning is Not Enough–Yet
The Carolina Federation and nearly two dozen grassroots groups blocked a MAGA trifecta in North Carolina and broke the GOP supermajority in the legislature. Now they’re fighting the backlash.
convergencemag.com
November 8, 2025 at 6:57 PM
“This battle is a stark reminder that we will continue to be forced to play a rigged game as long as our people don’t build enough power and solidarity to fundamentally change the rules and who is making them.”
@convergencemag.com
convergencemag.com/articles/in-...
@convergencemag.com
convergencemag.com/articles/in-...
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Kerala State ended extreme poverty. Meanwhile, Trump refuses to fund #SNAP. The contrast is shocking.
Find out what else is happening in Nonviolence News this week:
nonviolencenews.org/2025/11/08/e...
#poverty #nonviolence #resist
Find out what else is happening in Nonviolence News this week:
nonviolencenews.org/2025/11/08/e...
#poverty #nonviolence #resist
November 8, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Kerala State ended extreme poverty. Meanwhile, Trump refuses to fund #SNAP. The contrast is shocking.
Find out what else is happening in Nonviolence News this week:
nonviolencenews.org/2025/11/08/e...
#poverty #nonviolence #resist
Find out what else is happening in Nonviolence News this week:
nonviolencenews.org/2025/11/08/e...
#poverty #nonviolence #resist
“The traditional playbook…is part of the machinery that led to this moment. Siembra’s approach works outside those channels, building power through direct action & hyperlocal community building that doesn’t depend on institutions…”
@writingthings.bsky.social
indyweek.com/news/inside-...
@writingthings.bsky.social
indyweek.com/news/inside-...
Inside the Movement to Teach ICE Defense to N.C. Business Owners
From coffee shops to electrical contractors, local businesses are getting crash courses in constitutional law to prepare for potential encounters with federal agents.
indyweek.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:54 PM
“The traditional playbook…is part of the machinery that led to this moment. Siembra’s approach works outside those channels, building power through direct action & hyperlocal community building that doesn’t depend on institutions…”
@writingthings.bsky.social
indyweek.com/news/inside-...
@writingthings.bsky.social
indyweek.com/news/inside-...
“The difference between movements that change history and those that become footnotes isn’t passion or righteousness. It’s strategic competence. And strategy can be learned.”
@carmitage.bsky.social @baptistnews.com
baptistnews.com/article/the-...
@carmitage.bsky.social @baptistnews.com
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The evidence-based path from protest to power – Baptist News Global
What works is strategic, sustained, multi-tactical campaigns with disciplined nonviolence, economic leverage and infrastructure.
baptistnews.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:45 PM
“The difference between movements that change history and those that become footnotes isn’t passion or righteousness. It’s strategic competence. And strategy can be learned.”
@carmitage.bsky.social @baptistnews.com
baptistnews.com/article/the-...
@carmitage.bsky.social @baptistnews.com
baptistnews.com/article/the-...
While protests are the expressions of dissent that the media typically focus on, it is the behind the scenes withdraw of support by individuals and institutions that actually diminishes the power of authoritarians and wannabe dictators.
November 7, 2025 at 6:03 PM
While protests are the expressions of dissent that the media typically focus on, it is the behind the scenes withdraw of support by individuals and institutions that actually diminishes the power of authoritarians and wannabe dictators.
“Nonviolence is not only a moral stance for the Serbian student movement, it is a deliberate strategy to maintain legitimacy & broaden appeal.”
@jodemocracy.bsky.social
www.journalofdemocracy.org/online-exclu...
@jodemocracy.bsky.social
www.journalofdemocracy.org/online-exclu...
How Serbian Students Created the Largest Protest Movement in Decades | Journal of Democracy
They have been smart, creative, leaderless, and transparent. And they aren’t targeting any one politician or party. They aim to change the entire system.
www.journalofdemocracy.org
November 7, 2025 at 5:33 PM
“Nonviolence is not only a moral stance for the Serbian student movement, it is a deliberate strategy to maintain legitimacy & broaden appeal.”
@jodemocracy.bsky.social
www.journalofdemocracy.org/online-exclu...
@jodemocracy.bsky.social
www.journalofdemocracy.org/online-exclu...
Every act of radical imagination is a blow against repressive power.
That's why dictators try to crush dreams, kill creativity and insist there is no alternative.
Imagination is power. Dare to dream.
That's why dictators try to crush dreams, kill creativity and insist there is no alternative.
Imagination is power. Dare to dream.
November 6, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Every act of radical imagination is a blow against repressive power.
That's why dictators try to crush dreams, kill creativity and insist there is no alternative.
Imagination is power. Dare to dream.
That's why dictators try to crush dreams, kill creativity and insist there is no alternative.
Imagination is power. Dare to dream.
Protests are spreading to counties Trump won handily in 2024.
Here's the data.
@chenoweth.bsky.social @djpressman.bsky.social
wagingnonviolence.org/2025/10/resi...
Here's the data.
@chenoweth.bsky.social @djpressman.bsky.social
wagingnonviolence.org/2025/10/resi...
The resistance reaches into Trump country
As organizers for No Kings 2 seek historic turnout on Oct. 18, the broader pro-democracy movement has already broken new ground.
wagingnonviolence.org
November 6, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Protests are spreading to counties Trump won handily in 2024.
Here's the data.
@chenoweth.bsky.social @djpressman.bsky.social
wagingnonviolence.org/2025/10/resi...
Here's the data.
@chenoweth.bsky.social @djpressman.bsky.social
wagingnonviolence.org/2025/10/resi...
“Rather than seeing a regime as having the power to do whatever it wants, the pillars of support approach sees a regime’s power as being held up by institutions, organizations and groups…”
@wagingnonviolence.org
wagingnonviolence.org/2025/08/free...
@wagingnonviolence.org
wagingnonviolence.org/2025/08/free...
Free DC models effective resistance to National Guard takeover
DC residents’ rapid response to Trump's National Guard deployment is a masterclass in how to prepare for crises and fight authoritarianism.
wagingnonviolence.org
November 6, 2025 at 6:01 PM
“Rather than seeing a regime as having the power to do whatever it wants, the pillars of support approach sees a regime’s power as being held up by institutions, organizations and groups…”
@wagingnonviolence.org
wagingnonviolence.org/2025/08/free...
@wagingnonviolence.org
wagingnonviolence.org/2025/08/free...
“Defections are one of the most powerful ways to erode authoritarian control. They send a signal: the regime’s grip depends on our consent—and that consent is slipping.”
@wagingnonviolence.org
wagingnonviolence.org/2025/10/what...
@wagingnonviolence.org
wagingnonviolence.org/2025/10/what...
What’s next after the historic No Kings protest?
Seven million just turned out for the largest protest in US history, and there are growing signs of defections and defiance.
wagingnonviolence.org
November 5, 2025 at 6:46 PM
“Defections are one of the most powerful ways to erode authoritarian control. They send a signal: the regime’s grip depends on our consent—and that consent is slipping.”
@wagingnonviolence.org
wagingnonviolence.org/2025/10/what...
@wagingnonviolence.org
wagingnonviolence.org/2025/10/what...
For Mamdani voters, the fight has just begun.
Every billionaire & Republican in the country will do everything in their power to make sure he fails.
Democratic Socialism is a threat that cannot be seen as viable.
Every billionaire & Republican in the country will do everything in their power to make sure he fails.
Democratic Socialism is a threat that cannot be seen as viable.
November 5, 2025 at 6:12 PM
For Mamdani voters, the fight has just begun.
Every billionaire & Republican in the country will do everything in their power to make sure he fails.
Democratic Socialism is a threat that cannot be seen as viable.
Every billionaire & Republican in the country will do everything in their power to make sure he fails.
Democratic Socialism is a threat that cannot be seen as viable.
“The Squirrels exemplify the growing gulf between the capitalist pursuit & the need to restore Earth. They speak to a truth many have already realized: There cannot be endless economic growth on a planet with finite resources.”
@wagingnonviolence.org
wagingnonviolence.org/cnv/2025/08/...
@wagingnonviolence.org
wagingnonviolence.org/cnv/2025/08/...
Meet The Squirrels — earth protectors in southern France
A group of nonviolent activists in France face heavy repression as they block the construction of an environmentally damaging new road.
wagingnonviolence.org
November 5, 2025 at 5:41 PM
“The Squirrels exemplify the growing gulf between the capitalist pursuit & the need to restore Earth. They speak to a truth many have already realized: There cannot be endless economic growth on a planet with finite resources.”
@wagingnonviolence.org
wagingnonviolence.org/cnv/2025/08/...
@wagingnonviolence.org
wagingnonviolence.org/cnv/2025/08/...
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After 13 years, Mississippi Democrats have broken the Republican Party’s supermajority in the Mississippi Senate.
Democrats flipped two GOP-held Senate seats and one House seat in the special elections.
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Democrats flipped two GOP-held Senate seats and one House seat in the special elections.
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Mississippi Democrats Break Republican Senate Supermajority, Flipping 3 Legislative Seats
After 13 years, Mississippi Democrats broke the Republican Party's supermajority in the Mississippi Senate, flipping 3 legislative seats.
www.mississippifreepress.org
November 5, 2025 at 7:33 AM
After 13 years, Mississippi Democrats have broken the Republican Party’s supermajority in the Mississippi Senate.
Democrats flipped two GOP-held Senate seats and one House seat in the special elections.
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Democrats flipped two GOP-held Senate seats and one House seat in the special elections.
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The shift in Connecticut tonight is seismic. Possibly unprecedented. Loads of towns flipped from Republican to Democratic control.
A partial list:
Ansonia
Bethany
Branford
Bristol
Brooklyn
East Granby
Ellington
Enfield
Farmington
Milford
New Britain
New Fairfield
Norwich
Plymouth
Rocky Hill
A partial list:
Ansonia
Bethany
Branford
Bristol
Brooklyn
East Granby
Ellington
Enfield
Farmington
Milford
New Britain
New Fairfield
Norwich
Plymouth
Rocky Hill
November 5, 2025 at 9:51 AM
The shift in Connecticut tonight is seismic. Possibly unprecedented. Loads of towns flipped from Republican to Democratic control.
A partial list:
Ansonia
Bethany
Branford
Bristol
Brooklyn
East Granby
Ellington
Enfield
Farmington
Milford
New Britain
New Fairfield
Norwich
Plymouth
Rocky Hill
A partial list:
Ansonia
Bethany
Branford
Bristol
Brooklyn
East Granby
Ellington
Enfield
Farmington
Milford
New Britain
New Fairfield
Norwich
Plymouth
Rocky Hill
The first step toward a more just world is to dream.
Martin Luther King understood that it is VISION that keeps our campaigns energized when the going gets tough.
Martin Luther King understood that it is VISION that keeps our campaigns energized when the going gets tough.
November 4, 2025 at 6:52 PM
The first step toward a more just world is to dream.
Martin Luther King understood that it is VISION that keeps our campaigns energized when the going gets tough.
Martin Luther King understood that it is VISION that keeps our campaigns energized when the going gets tough.
Some people see voting as a moral choice.
This is a mistake.
Many people think of voting as a strategy—vote & done.
Also a mistake.
Voting is simply one tactic in the larger struggle. Engaging with & coercing elected officials after the vote is where real power lies.
This is a mistake.
Many people think of voting as a strategy—vote & done.
Also a mistake.
Voting is simply one tactic in the larger struggle. Engaging with & coercing elected officials after the vote is where real power lies.
November 4, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Some people see voting as a moral choice.
This is a mistake.
Many people think of voting as a strategy—vote & done.
Also a mistake.
Voting is simply one tactic in the larger struggle. Engaging with & coercing elected officials after the vote is where real power lies.
This is a mistake.
Many people think of voting as a strategy—vote & done.
Also a mistake.
Voting is simply one tactic in the larger struggle. Engaging with & coercing elected officials after the vote is where real power lies.