Mass protests have failed to bring about social change. It’s time for a new strategy.
Mass protests have failed to bring about social change. It’s time for a new strategy.
2010-2020 saw more mass protests around the world than at any other point in human history, but the societal changes that resulted were often the opposite of what protesters demanded. Author Vincent Bevins explains why.
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Vincent Bevins just published a new book on this topic:
If We Burn; The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution
He was interviewed about it on the TrueAnon podcast, but I dunno if that was in the public feed or the bonus feed.
and no one gives a shit ( anyhow his first book about the CIA was pretty cool, too! I heard an interview with him about the new book on the Intercept podcast, and his narrative is something I‘ve been thinking about for some time. It‘s actually insane how the right could take the initiative instead of the left and now there‘s only little room to manoeuvre.
If you mean The Jakarta Method, Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World, that was one of the best books I've ever read. Blew me away. That's how I recognized his name in the show notes for the latest podcast interview.
yes! For some reason I was assuming it was his first book