Serj Tankian
Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin
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Decentralized Civil Disobedience - A New Form of Revolution
The peaceful revolution in Armenia in 2018 was initiated by a parliamentarian who led a protest walk from a small city to the capital, gathering momentum against the oligarchic regime. The revolution was a response to the lack of fairness in the courts and economic disparities in the country, resembling post-Soviet nations. Unique to this revolution was the strategy of decentralized civil disobedience, where instead of a centralized protest, individuals spread across the country broke laws in minimal ways, live-streaming their actions on Facebook. This innovative approach, akin to the Arab Spring, was a significant aspect of the Armenian revolution.
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