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Brazil’s doctors first began organizing large-scale resistance to the military regime over the low wages, poor working conditions, and mismanagement of the health sector by the military dictatorship. Capitalizing on...

Author: Adam Fefer

Pakistan’s Lawyers’ Movement offers a model of unity in response to democratic decline; they united around a grievance (autocracy and its threat to judicial autonomy) and strategy (peaceful protests), although...

In the aftermath of the 2020 election, various groups within the legal profession organized to make it tougher for lawyers to use the legal system to overturn elections. The 65...

Author: Adam Fefer

A key domain of Poland’s backsliding, which began in 2015, was the judiciary. In response, Polish judges have taken a multipronged approach to public activism. First, judges have drafted legal...

A key element of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference’s (SCLC) strategy was leveraging existing communities to then mobilize individuals into a collective movement. Accordingly, the SCLC developed a strong alliance...

In response to anti-democratic repression and high levels of corruption, labor unions in South Korea had organized strikes to protest government oppression in 2014, yet they had been largely ineffective...

In response to the anti-democratic passage of the Farm Bills in India, farm unions across various regions coordinated a coalition of 32 farm unions who came together in a nonviolent...

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, for the 2020 election poll workers were scarce, in person voting was challenging and unfeasible in some jurisdictions, and typical “get out the vote” campaigns...

On Election Day 2020, The AFL-CIO and US Chamber of Commerce, amongst other partners, released a statement calling for the respect of election results and the peaceful transfer of power....