TYT Politics Reporter Nomiki Konst (https://Twitter.com/NomikiKonst) spoke with legendary Serbian activist Srdja Popovic (https://Twitter.com/srdjapopovic) about how to successfully lead a peaceful revolution in one’s country.
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Peaceful revolutions and movements have always succeeded because there were people ready to do enormous violence waiting in the wings. Dr. King succeeded because Malcom X was looming. Ghandi because of Indian revolutionaries. Even the suffragettes had members willing to blow up cars and toss pipe bombs.
This video is way too short to go into depth, but many important strategic and tactical ideas touched on here by seasoned activist Srdja Popovic. Worth much more thought as we move forward. He talks about the value of dispersed actions and real disruption over centralized mostly impotent ones (i.e. marches and demonstrations). Here’s another:
“You don’t put our differences in the heart of the movement’s agenda; you put our commonalities.”
If one looks at the Bernie agenda, one can see that is the core. Our job is to bring more and more people in, to understand that these are our shared goals. Build bridges, not burn them down. Similar to what Jane Sanders said today in her discussion with RoseAnn DeMoro:
“We need to pay attention to bringing people together and talking about the real issues and finding common ground that doesn’t just say ‘Okay, from the Left, from the Right, let’s go to the Center.’ That is what you are going to be hearing a lot of from the media and it’s exactly the wrong way to go. There is no Left. There is no Right. There’s right and wrong and there is coming together to say ‘government works for the people.'”