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.
Keep protesting yes, but also escalate either in degree or kind if it doesn’t work. The moment you stall you lose the game, yet for example I’m not hearing of any politically—rather than purely economically—motivated strikes.
No, it’s that the 3.5% rule requires that those 3.5% be consistently engaged and willing to escalate, and BLM was not that.
I live in Portland OR so I know that’s not true.
Yeah but they weren’t consistently engaged.
What kind of escalation happened? Afaik the whole thing stalled with spontaneous protests and riots.
Willingness to keep protesting and commitment does seem to be critical as per successful global examples.
Keep protesting yes, but also escalate either in degree or kind if it doesn’t work. The moment you stall you lose the game, yet for example I’m not hearing of any politically—rather than purely economically—motivated strikes.