Author: Shahid Bolsen

You are being called out to the streets for protests on January 25th, and if you do what the authorities expect of you (gathering, shouting, etc), it can very likely be a trap; as it largely has been for the past 2 years. Mass street demonstrations have not, and will not end the coup, but…

Strictly speaking, nonviolent demonstrations are not nonviolent. When people are killed or injured at a demonstration, how it can be categorized as “peaceful”, I wish I knew. Rather, such events are spectacles of one-sided violence; this tactic should be called what it is, “organized voluntary victimization”.