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Subject How The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes Reflects Today’s Authoritarian Challenges
Date November 16, 2023 12:37 PM
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Dear John,

In a poignant example of life imitating art, the three-fingered salute used by defiant Hunger Games protagonist Katniss Everdeen has become a real-world emblem of antiauthoritarian resistance, particularly of prodemocracy movements in Thailand, Hong Kong, and Myanmar.

In this Q&amp;A, Nina Jacobson

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, the series’s producer and a Freedom House trustee, discusses how The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes reflects today’s authoritarian challenges, the power of storytelling to inspire those standing up for democracy, and the series’s role in embodying and advocating for empathy and resistance in the face of oppression.

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