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Mel Packer: We Must Lay Our Bodies Down

We must stand up against a tyrannical state power that is clearly moving toward fascism, or more and more of us will wake one day to find families and friends gone.

November 1, 2025 · 13 Comments

Erica Chenoweth, et al: American Spring? How nonviolent protest in the US is accelerating

Contrary to conventional wisdom, the size and scale of anti-Trump protests this year have dwarfed those in 2017, and they have been extraordinarily peaceful. 

July 3, 2025 · 12 Comments

Abby Zimet: For Cruel, Stupid, ​Dastardly Deeds Done and Proposed

Gandhi famously said, “Civil disobedience therefore becomes a sacred duty when the State has become lawless.”

February 21, 2025 · 13 Comments

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