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Seattle Strike Coalition
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Seattle Strike Coalition: When Trump attempts to interfere with the midterms, a coalition of Seattle groups will be ready with our most potent tools — the overwhelming power of a strategic general strike in conjunction with coordinated, peaceful, mass civil disobedience.
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Free Washington Project: A collection of resources to strengthen our community and build the skills we need for strategic noncooperation and effective nonviolent resistance.
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National General Strike: The General Strike is a decentralized network of regular people who know our greatest power is our labor and our constitutional right to refuse it. We aim to unite every person and organization fighting for racial, economic, and environmental justice so that together, we can see real change in our lifetimes.
Pillars of Society that Support Authoritarianism:
Each time a pillar institution yields to or supports the regime, the regime grows stronger.
In contrast, noncooperation — refusing to do what is expected, disrupting the normal course of events, and withdrawing support from unjust or illegal policies — weakens the regime and creates cracks in its foundation of power.
Ask yourself:
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What pillars am I part of?
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How are those pillars upholding the regime?
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In those pillars, what kind of defiance is already happening?
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What could more look like?
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Who are the key decision-makers in those pillars?
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Who could we influence, pressure, or persuade to support more noncooperation?
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from One Million Rising: Next Steps for Resistance Worksheet
Nonviolent Civil Change Needs Mass and Momentum
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.
— Erica Chenoweth