John,
In light of the courage you’ve all shown this past week, we want to share a message with you from Scott Nakagawa — a longtime organizer, movement strategist, and trusted advisor to Women’s March.
Scott has spent decades studying how people defeat authoritarian power. What he’s seeing right now matters for all of us. Here’s his message:
Here’s what decades of civil resistance research shows: authoritarians cannot rule without our cooperation. They need our labor, our money, our compliance.
When we withdraw that cooperation — strategically and at scale — authoritarian power doesn’t just weaken. It collapses.
The 900+ walkouts this week, and the calls for no work, no school, and no shopping, aren’t symbolic. They’re opening moves in a shift from defense to offense.
This is how people have defeated authoritarianism before — by making repression unsustainable.
Together,
Women’s March
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