PROTESTING WORKS

Thanks to Kelley Hatlee for writing this fantastic guest contribution ("Does protesting really work?," May 15). Nonviolent protest does matter, and it does work. The data is there to back it up. Local 50501 chapters, Indivisible, Women's March and many more organization absolutely need pro-democracy Americans to get involved by making calls, engaging in mutual aid or simply showing up on local protest days to show we care about our future, we see the corruption and we are defending our Constitution.

As early as 1968, Professor Michael Lipsky wrote in "Protest as a Political Resource" that "successful movements have clear, strategic goals; (they) use protest to broaden coalitions, seek to enlist more powerful individuals in their case and connect expressions of discontent

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