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Activists Use Love and Empathy to Create New Alliances and Possibilities with the 'Enemy'
Sally Kohn | YES! Magazine
Actually, we tried "flower power" in the Sixties and were met with brutal repression by the authorities, often the elite security forces of the time that were clearly distinguishable from ordinary policy officers. Since then, the entire domestic security force has been militarized under DHS ("interior minstry").
While my conviction is that love is the way since it is the manifestation of the interconnectedness of all beings, activists should be under no illusion about the likely reaction of authorities to any strategy and tactic that threatens their position. Gandhi's non-violent resistance was non-violent from only one side, as was Martin Luther King's modeled on it.
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