What We’re Following

Legal rights

ACLU:  Know your protest rights

https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/protesters-rights/?redirect=protest

Where protests are happening

Demonstrations & Political Violence

https://acleddata.com/2020/09/03/demonstrations-political-violence-in-america-new-data-for-summer-2020/

US Crisis Monitor

https://acleddata.com/special-projects/us-crisis-monitor/

Gene Sharp

Gene Sharp documentary

https://www.howtostartarevolution.org/

Violence and nonviolence

The Case Against Riots

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/30/opinion/sunday/riots-george-floyd.html

These protests feel different because they’re shifting public opinion

https://www.vox.com/2020/6/26/21301066/public-opinion-shift-black-lives-matter

This may be the largest wave of nonviolent mass movements in world history.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/11/16/this-may-be-largest-wave-nonviolent-mass-movements-world-history-what-comes-next/

Research

Going Too Far: The American Public’s Attitudes toward Protest Movements

https://ropercenter.cornell.edu/going-too-far-american-publics-attitudes-toward-protest-movements

Calling Attention to a Cause is an Exercise in Balance

https://www.annualreviews.org/shot-of-science/story/public-opinion-and-protest

Agenda Seeding: How 1960s Black Protests Moved Elites, Public Opinion and Voting

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/article/agenda-seeding-how-1960s-black-protests-moved-elites-public-opinion-and-voting/136610C8C040C3D92F041BB2EFC3034C

Nonviolent resistance proves potent weapon

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/02/why-nonviolent-resistance-beats-violent-force-in-effecting-social-political-change/