Protests can be great but they're not strategy. Also for town halls, petitions etc. They're methods. *Strategy* has a theory of its methods.
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but methods, honed, can become instruments of strategy. But often not until then.
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@zeynep can do better but here's my shot: a strategy involves systematic analysis of pressure points 1/Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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and seeks to find tactics (methods) to put pressure on those points in a manner in which one action supports 2/
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will ping back in a bit; these are crucial questions.
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and leads to the next. E.g. in Civil Rights Mvmt, non-violence in the South w massive numbers incited over-reaction
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that pressured action from Kennedy/Johnson admins through media; Children's Crusade in Birmingham was example 4/
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Like I said before,
@zeynep will definitely have much better answer
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Can ask the same Q of protests: do they help protestors feel better or do they actually challenge power?
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It was pretty cohesive from about 1960 to 1966; there were disagreements, but there were coordinated efforts
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