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Why we are 350: Scientists overwhelmingly agree that 350ppm CO2 is the upper limit to sustain life as humans have lived it. For more than 800,000 years atmospheric CO2 varied between roughly 180 to 280ppm ([link removed]) .

Our Earth passed 350ppm CO2 during 1988!
Mauna Loa Observatory ([link removed]) - We are now approaching 430ppm!
On many days we're up 1.6 to 2.5ppm from last year
This administration is attempting to decimate climate progress.
They are certainly slowing and reversing progress.
We need to make our voices heard!

* Tomorrow, October 18, 11 - 2: No Kings Day (2,500+ cities)
+ Tuesday, October 21, 7 - 8pm CDT: Mass Call: What's Next After No Kings? ([link removed])
* Every Saturday, 12 - 1: Pro-democracy Protest, 76th at North Ave.

In the news:
Trump himself has not weighed in on the October 18 protests. After the June protests, though, he said, “I don’t feel like a king, I have to go through hell to get stuff approved.”
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“‘No Kings’ means no paychecks, no paychecks and no government,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said. Sean Duffy, the transportation secretary, said Democratic leaders weren’t running the show in the Senate, but protesters were. He also repeated a common false refrain that protesters were being paid.
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Meanwhile, the child in the White House is spending his time making commercials ([link removed]) for watches, trading cards, Trump Tokens and more...
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** What is the 3.5% rule in protest?
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Organizers and protesters this year have repeatedly drawn on research that showed if 3.5% of a population protests nonviolently against a regime, the regime will fail. This theory has been dubbed the “3.5% rule”. ([link removed])

Political scientists Erica Chenoweth and Maria Stephan created a database of civil resistance campaigns from 1900 to 2006, analyzing whether non-violent or violent movements were more likely to succeed and whether there was a tipping point in terms of size for protests to actually expel the party or person in power. The results showed non-violent campaigns were often much larger and were twice as likely to succeed than violent movements. They were more representative of the population, and, they found, active and sustained participation by 3.5% of a population meant a movement would succeed, with very few, specific exceptions.

In the US, 3.5% of the population would be more than 11m people. So far, these mass days of action have not hit this threshold, though the threshold is not a magic number. Chenoweth noted in 2020 that the figure is a “descriptive statistic” derived from historical movements, “not necessarily a prescriptive one”, meaning it is not necessarily a guarantee to organize around, as some are explicitly doing now.

While the exact number isn’t magic, the basics behind the statistic hold true: sustained, mass, nonviolent resistance can topple governments.
- The Guardian
No Kings Day
Tomorrow, October 18, 11 - 2
Cathedral Square ([link removed])
520 E Wells St, Milwaukee


In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.

[link removed] peaceful movement is only getting bigger and stronger. “NO KINGS” is more than just a slogan—it’s the foundation our nation was built upon. Born in the streets, carried by millions in chants and on posters, it echoes from city blocks to rural town squares, uniting people across this country to fight dictatorship together.

The president thinks his rule is absolute. But in America, we don’t have kings, and we won’t back down against chaos, corruption, and cruelty. Grow our movement and join us.

Where: Cathedral Square, Milwaukee ([link removed])
When: 11-2 CDT, October 18, 2025

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There are a half dozen No Kings events in the Milwaukee area!

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A core principle behind all No Kings events is a commitment to nonviolent action. We expect all participants to seek to de-escalate any potential confrontation with those who disagree with our values and to act lawfully at these events. Weapons of any kind, including those legally permitted, should not be brought to events.
Weekly Pro-democracy Protest
Saturdays at:
76th and North Ave.


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