The '3.5% rule': How a small minority can change the world
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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.
  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
    101·
    6日前

    US during the civil rights movement era: yes

    I gotta ask, how the hell was the US in the 1960s a safe place to nonviolently protest? Police violence aimed at colored protesters during that era was notorious. Plus the church bombings, the lynchings, the assassinations…