pdiff1These three women did more to save democracy in 30 minutes than all of mainstream media has done in over a decade. They each should be awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. #TFG #trump #trumpisweird #nabj #FeetToTheFire
John Girouard
Mycotropic@m_scribe we mentioned this to #ATS American Thoracic Society and we were shown the contracts that are in place for the next five years. One year in an antiwoman state but only one and there was a fairly enormous cancelation fee which they won't pay and can't reschedule anyway. So the org is taking a hit in attendance that year but they acknowledged the problem and won't schedule there again if those laws stay in place (we are told).
#OrgsThatTry #FeetToTheFire #prochoice #NazisRaus
#OrgsThatTry #FeetToTheFire #prochoice #NazisRaus
Doc Edward Morbius ⭕Do Protests Even Work?
It sometimes takes decades to find out
Zeynep Tufekci, June 24, 2020
... In the long term, protests work because they can undermine the most important pillar of power: legitimacy. Commentators often note that a state can be defined by its monopoly on violence, a concept going back to the philosopher Thomas Hobbes and codified by the sociologist Max Weber. But the full Weber quote is less well known. Weber defined the state by its “monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force.” The word legitimate is as important as the words physical force, if not more. Especially in the modern world, that monopoly on violence isn’t something that self-perpetuates. Violence doesn’t just happen; it has to be enacted and enabled by people. The Soviet Union did not fall because it ran out of tanks to send to Eastern Europe when the people there rebelled in the late 1980s. It fell, in large part, because it ran out of legitimacy, and because Soviet rulers had lost the will and the desire to live in their own system. ...
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/06/why-protests-work/613420/
(Emphasis in original.)
#FeetToTheFire #ZeynepTufekci #protest #legitimacy #MaxWeber
