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[https://berghof-foundation.org/news/ppm by Berghof Foundation] | [https://berghof-foundation.org/news/ppm by Berghof Foundation] | ||
As witnessed across Latin America, the Middle East and North Africa region, Asia, Africa and Europe during the last decade, there is a global resurgence of nonviolent movements taking to the streets to protest against autocratic or unaccountable governments, often aspiring for regime change, state reform or the reallocation of political power. | As witnessed across Latin America, the Middle East and North Africa region, Asia, Africa and Europe during the last decade, there is a global resurgence of nonviolent movements taking to the streets to protest against autocratic or unaccountable governments, often aspiring for regime change, state reform or the reallocation of political power. | ||
=====Does peaceful protest work?===== | |||
[https://www.greenpeace.org.uk/news/does-peaceful-protest-work/ by Lowri Evans 14/4/21 GREENPEACE] | |||
When Margaret Mead said, ‘Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, organized citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has,’ she probably wasn’t talking specifically about fans of the TV show Jericho. The fans, in protest of its cancellation, sent 20 tons of peanuts to the office of CBS and inundated them with phonecalls and emails – eventually resulting in a much-demanded second season. | |||
