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There are rumblings of mass protests or nationwide economic boycotts... [View all]
...and there are also those who claim protests and boycotts don't work.
I'll agree there have been protests and boycotts that haven't worked in the past, but it should also be known that there have been those that HAVE worked.
It only takes 3.5% of a population to bring about substantial change...
The '3.5% rule': How a small minority can change the world -BBC
“There weren’t any campaigns that had failed after they had achieved 3.5% participation during a peak event,” says Chenoweth – a phenomenon she has called the “3.5% rule”. Besides the People Power movement, that included the Singing Revolution in Estonia in the late 1980s and the Rose Revolution in Georgia in the early 2003.
Full Article at:
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190513-it-only-takes-35-of-people-to-change-the-world
“There weren’t any campaigns that had failed after they had achieved 3.5% participation during a peak event,” says Chenoweth – a phenomenon she has called the “3.5% rule”. Besides the People Power movement, that included the Singing Revolution in Estonia in the late 1980s and the Rose Revolution in Georgia in the early 2003.
Full Article at:
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190513-it-only-takes-35-of-people-to-change-the-world
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