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Witnessing the violence from the National Guard against peaceful protesters at Standing Rock, and wanting to use their experience and social capital, veterans organized a campaign to protect protesters from...

Author: Adam Fefer

During Venezuela's 2000 election, opposition parties had a strong showing. This competitive atmosphere helped opponents raise awareness of Chávez’s undemocratic attempts to consolidate power. Although he won the election, some...

After observing federal agents escalate conflict against Christopher David, a Navy veteran, during the 2020 protests against police brutality and systemic racism, a group of veterans organized through Facebook and...

Following the January 6th attack, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, a politically appointed body comprised of the top eight military officials in the country, published an unprecedented letter to the...

During the “Orange Revolution” in Ukraine, a network of veterans organized by former General Volodymyr Antonets played a crucial role in preventing a violent crackdown against the nonviolent occupation of...

The pinnacle of the Indian Farmers’ Protests was a mass nonviolent blockade of the four main highways going into New Delhi, India’s capital, by hundreds of thousands of farmers, which...

Author: Adam Fefer

One key actor organizing against democratic backsliding in Hungary is Pastor Gábor Iványi of the Hungarian Evangelical Fellowship (HEF). HEF’s primary impact has been raising awareness about the state of...

Author: Adam Fefer

While Christianity played a key role in the rise of authoritarianism in Poland, many bishops leveraged their positionality and religious rhetoric to oppose the Law and Justice party’s (PiS) more...

Following the success of the Montgomery bus boycotts, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) was established to coordinate and support nonviolent direct action. The initial concept of leveraging Black churches’...