this post was submitted on 20 Apr 2025
585 points (99.3% liked)

50501

1319 readers
20 users here now

50 States, 50 Protests, 1 Movement. https://fiftyfifty.one/ | #fiftyfiftyone
This is a community related to the 50501 movement. Find the main communities at https://50501.chat/.

founded 2 months ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
585
If You Were Wondering Why Protest Coverage Seems Fairly Muted, NPR's Public Editor Confirms This is Intentional (lemmy.ml)
submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
99 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

https://www.threads.net/@nprpubliceditor/post/DIhOEQQOyqP

EDIT: Also worth noting that the next nationwide protest date for 50501 is May 1st

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Peaceful protests are more likely to succeed. We need to get 3.5%

Nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts โ€“ and those engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190513-it-only-takes-35-of-people-to-change-the-world