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Feeling Helpless? 15 (Easy and Harder) Things You Can Do Right Now to Fight for Democracy
You Don’t Have to Be a Judge, a Governor, a Mayor, or a Legislator to Stand for Peace
My fellow American, I know you’re scared. I know you’re overwhelmed. But one of the most important things we can do to start is to fully adjust our mindset: restoring and protecting democracy takes time. We have to commit to the long haul. Of course, we want this nightmare to be over now. Or yesterday. But massive transformation does not, cannot happen overnight. And that’s ok. Because you don’t have to do anything single-handedly. We peacefully resist together.
Be a part of the peaceful 3.5%.
“Nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts — and those engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change,” the BBC reported about Harvard University’s political scientist Erica Chenoweth’s revelatory research.
Citing just four of the hundreds of 20th-century campaigns Dr. Chenoweth studied (the Philippines, Georgia, Albania, and Sudan) the BBC highlighted that “civil resistance by ordinary members of the public trumped the political elite to achieve radical change.”¹
