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7. Non-Violent protest is more successful in effecting change
Sun Jun 8, 2025, 10:36 PM
Jun 8

The Harvard Gazette
Nonviolent resistance proves potent weapon
Michelle Nicholasen
February 4, 2019
9 min read

Erica Chenoweth discovers it is more successful in effecting change than violent campaigns
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/02/why-nonviolent-resistance-beats-violent-force-in-effecting-social-political-change/

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If you are participating in a nokings.org protest June 14, please, please, at a minimum, if other participants (or pro-47 regime instigators) engage in violence or property damage anywhere near you, please heed this advise (and help spread the word).

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Facebook post from Shannon Coleen re-posted by Jimmy Kimmel Live

🗣️ 🪧 “… From this moment forward, at every protest, we must do the following:

ℹ️ The moment violence or property damage begins, EVERY OTHER PROTESTER must immediately sit on the floor or the ground in silence, with signs down.

📷 The media (or a someone) needs to film this. This will reveal paid fake thugs posing as protesters becoming violent.

❤️The sitting down must spread like a "wave" in a football stadium throughout the crowd of protesters.

‼️Local police officers will immediately see WHO is doing the damage, and the rest of us will demonstrate our non-violent innocence and retain our ➡️Constitutional right ⬅️ to peaceful protest.

💯Retweet, repost, and shout it from the rooftops at every protest you attend!

#Gandhi #passiveresistance #pacifists #NoViolenceAllowed #PeacefulProtestOnly

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See also deescalation resources compiled by Hands Off organizers here.





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