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Tilted Cat Head
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Location: Manhattan, NY
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Originally Posted by dc_dux
Recent (20th century) history might suggest that non-violent civil diobedience is a more effective way to seek redress for grievances against the government and the political establishment.
In the US, it worked for the womens suffragette movement in the 1910s, the labor movement in the 1930s, the civil rights movement in the 1960s.
In India, it worked for Ghandi....in South Africa, it worked for Mandela....in Poland, it worked for Lech Welesa and Solidarity.....
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People Power Revolution (Yellow) in the Philippines for Cory Aquino in 1986, Czechoslovakia 1989, Singing Revolution in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania 1987-1991, Serbia in 2000, Philippines (again) 2001, Rose Revolution Georgia 2003, Orange Revolution Ukraine in 2004, Kyrgyzstan 2004.
But be reminded that it takes only someone like Stalin, Pol Pot, Saddam, or the Taliban, to kill their citizens. History has proven that violence is more common than peaceful revolution. It is those types of oppression that the founding fathers cautioned and warned about, not the ones that were easily convinced to change their minds by everyone gathering together and singing Kumbaya.
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