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    Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr May 30
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    Anyone have links to biographies of contemporary leaders of protests/direct action politics? I don’t have a clear mental model of the “career path” of such people for want of a better term. Where do they come from? Where do they learn their skills? Where do they form beliefs?

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    • (((James Huxley))) Daniel Addison 🇺🇸 ⚔️ Erik Vincent Smykal vidy thatte Jake Steel brutal oration 🏎️🐀💨 MT Eclectic Spacewalk E-Book: https://gum.co/XdCwe n/0
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      2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr May 30
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        I also suspect there’s 2 different kinds of leaders: those who perform the control/keep-it-peaceful plausible deniability gestures and thise who lead the precipitation of violence and catalyze the unraveling.

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr May 30
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        It’s clear what range of motives might drive black protesters, but the white ones are a question mark to me. Some are sincerely trying to be allies I’m sure, but several present in ways that suggest they’re out for excitement/adventure and the cause is just convenient.

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      2. Gerard Perry‏ @GerardPerry13 May 30
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        David Garrow describes some of this in his biography of @BarackObama, Rising Star, which I would highly recommend. I did a review of it for my channel last year.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I590nNG-kmk …

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      2. mutual‏ @mutual_ayyde May 30
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        Graeber's Direct Action an Ethnography is an ethnographic survey of the Global Justice Movememnthttps://www.amazon.com/Direct-Action-Ethnography-David-Graeber/dp/1904859798 …

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        Came here to mention this book too

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      2. impressions‏ @itsj000 May 30
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        contemporary leaders of protests is a misnomer since Occupy Wall Street and movements such as BLM are broadly spread through sentiment and collect around those. as well u could research how many leaders have been *ASSASSINATED. it's part of y u don't have the mental model.

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      3. Masto: MattCropp@social.coop  🌲 🌲‏ @MattCropp May 31
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        Important point - one of the best books in the past few years dissecting this is @zeynep's "Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest."

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      2. O s i b i s a b a‏ @JupiterJazz67 May 30
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        You need to look outside US. 2019 was a year of protests/direction action in France, Lebanon, Sudan, Chile, Hong Kong etc ... It is global, growing and now accelerating during the pandemic as corrupt rotten systems get exposed.

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      3. O s i b i s a b a‏ @JupiterJazz67 May 30
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        O s i b i s a b a Retweeted Sarah A | ساره

        From Lebanon to Minneapolis. They see injustice and corruption from far and look at their situation so _https://twitter.com/sa0un/status/1266467025938980875 …

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        Sarah A | ساره @sa0un
        We wrote a quick guide for US folks, combined by Lebanese activists, protesters, and revolutionaries (cc @aemasri). Contains info on protest safety, tear gas, + other hacks. From #Lebanon to #Minneapolis, solidarity everywhere ✊🏽 Thread below, and guide: https://github.com/frombeirutwithlove/ProtestTips/blob/master/WhatToDo.md … pic.twitter.com/enun7Ebqrl
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