No Kings Rally’s in Santa Cruz CA a big success.
12,000 protestors in Santa Cruz city and another 3,000 in Watsonville are the preliminary numbers.
With a county population of 262,406, Santa Cruz did our part in achieving the 3.5% number that predicts the downfall of an authoritarian regime.
This "3.5% rule" has become a symbolic threshold to describe the tipping point at which public participation in nonviolent protest can bring down an oppressive or authoritarian regime, per the studies by Professor Erica Chenoweth. In the U.S., 3.5% of the population is about 11.6 million people (based on a population of ~331 million).
Early numbers show 8+ million people in the US protested in all 50 states and every congressional district.
Each one of us doing our little part in the resistance makes a difference.
https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty-research/policy-topics/advocacy-social-movements/35-rule-understanding-what-makes-protest
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