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Saturday, Oct. 18th - No Kings 2- Unveils a Big New Trump Protest, and the Stakes Couldn't Be Higher (www.rollingstone.com)
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No Kings 2 is being organized by a big tent of grassroots and advocacy organizations. One of the most prominent players is Indivisible, the activist group that sprang to life in the early days of the first Trump administration, and which now counts 2,500 distributed, local chapters nationwide.

Rolling Stone spoke to Indivisible co-founder Ezra Levin last week, in advance of No Kings 2 unveiling today. The protest is planned for Oct. 18 — in the aftermath of an unpredictable showdown over government funding that could lead to a partial government shutdown by the end of the month.

I expect No Kings 2 to be the largest protest of the year. We had 5 to 6 million people across 2,169 communities turn out for No Kings 1. It was wildly successful. People who might have been on the sidelines for No Kings 1 probably had some FOMO. And the good news is: We’re doing it again. We’re going to pull out even more people.

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[–] 2 points 1 year ago

My point was to not to throw peaceful protests under the bus.

I'm not; I'm throwing peaceful parades under the bus. Effective peaceful protests need to disrupt authoritarianism and directly challenge the regime's authority. I won't deny the effectiveness of tactics such as those used by Gandhi or MLK, but I see none of that happening in America.

Who cares if it's against a brutal government or a brutal corporation?

One is able to use near-unfettered violence to achieve its aims while the other can't; that's a big difference. Also you can boycott one but not the other (unless you're willing to back up your boycott using violence, due to the prior point).

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