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#135: What makes a protest movement successful? (ft. James Ozden)

It's Not Just In Your Head

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The Negative or Positive Role of Violence in Protests

I was just wondering in that, what's the definition of violence and in what ways does violence play a negative or positive role in these protest outcomes? And I want to add to that question, does that include police violence against protesters or just protesters violence? Yeah, I think it was all great questions. It's a tricky one because also when we kind of say things like generally non-violence is something more useful, it doesn't mean to say that violence never works. Because there's loads of examples where actually violent actions have led to good outcomes, but whether it's something I'd recommend, I'm not so sure. So by definition, you gave this really good example of an animal

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