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.
Mostly peaceful, really, same as these. But obviously when you have literally millions of people protesting, there’s bound to be some not-quite-ok stuff happening in all the chaos. Property damage, stealing, that sort of thing.
There’s really no way to have zero violence at this scale, although I’d say there’s a distinction between property damage and violence (one is done to objects and the other to people).
Don’t forget we remember MLK protests as mostly peaceful too, but the media did not portray them that way back then either. The copaganda is ever present. But look up the 2020 protests and you’ll get a lot of headlines reporting that they were in fact like 99% peaceful.
Mostly peaceful, really, same as these. But obviously when you have literally millions of people protesting, there’s bound to be some not-quite-ok stuff happening in all the chaos. Property damage, stealing, that sort of thing.
There’s really no way to have zero violence at this scale, although I’d say there’s a distinction between property damage and violence (one is done to objects and the other to people).
Don’t forget we remember MLK protests as mostly peaceful too, but the media did not portray them that way back then either. The copaganda is ever present. But look up the 2020 protests and you’ll get a lot of headlines reporting that they were in fact like 99% peaceful.