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Acorn Baden @acornbaden.bsky.social · 1h

Yeah, I'm working with a group that's aiming to do crowdsourcing of a master list of pillars so that we can move into the naive pillar strategy. I have some documents with a mission, etc to go deeper than the proposal. It can scale local to regional to national. Pillars are assessed on loyalty

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Acorn Baden @acornbaden.bsky.social · 2h

I wrote a proposal that explains how we can move from the mass mobilization strategy we are currently into the naive pillar strategy and ultimately into the informed pillar strategy drive.proton.me/urls/8NJRWJW...

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Acorn Baden @acornbaden.bsky.social · 2h

@sparcmi.bsky.social We are emailing organizers on the 50501 list about crowd counting but we don't have your email address. Will you please check out www.wecountproject.com and please use our public source creator tool after Saturday's protest (and after every protest).

The We Count Project

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Acorn Baden @acornbaden.bsky.social · 2h

@50501-missouri.bsky.social Hey we are emailing 50501 organizers about crowd counting on 10/18 but we don't have your email address. Please check out www.countproject.com and use our public source creator after saturday's protest and after every protest

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Acorn Baden @acornbaden.bsky.social · 3h

@50501nnv.bsky.social We don't have your email address but we've been emailing 50501 organizers about crowd counting on 10/18. Please check out our website www.wecountproject.com and please use our public source creator tool after Saturday's protest (and after any protests).

The We Count Project

Protests Count. So Should We!

www.wecountproject.com

Acorn Baden @acornbaden.bsky.social · 3h

I don't think you have a good understanding of naive or informed pillar strategies if you think the Courage Collectives shift us from one to the other. Yeah, hundreds of thousands heard Indivisible's pillar stuff but it's not the pillar strategies from the research. I care about this research.

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Acorn Baden @acornbaden.bsky.social · 3h

@oklahoma50501.bsky.social We don't have your email address. We have been emailing 50501 organizers about crowd counting on 10/18. Please check out our website www.wecountproject.com and use our public source creator tool after Saturday's protest (and after every protest).

The We Count Project

Protests Count. So Should We!

www.wecountproject.com

Acorn Baden @acornbaden.bsky.social · 3h

@50501pittsburgh.bsky.social Hello, we are emailing 50501 organizers about crowd counting on 10/18 but we don't have your email address. Please check out www.wecountproject.com and use our public source creator tool after your protest on Saturday (and after all protests)

The We Count Project

Protests Count. So Should We!

www.wecountproject.com

Acorn Baden @acornbaden.bsky.social · 3h

@50501pittsburgh.bsky.social The We Count Project is emailing 50501 organizers about crowd counting on 10/18 but we don't have your email address. Please check out www.wecountproject.com and use our public source Creator tool on Saturday after your protest.

The We Count Project

Protests Count. So Should We!

www.wecountproject.com

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Acorn Baden @acornbaden.bsky.social · 3h

There are 2 pillar strategies Chenoweth mentions in a research paper and talks. Over time they have become known as the “naive” and “informed” pillar strategies. Indivisible doesn’t mention those or do anything to implement those strategies. I think that’s a shame.

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Acorn Baden @acornbaden.bsky.social · 3h

I think you’re taking one very short video summarizing Chenoweth’s work. I’ve followed for years and seen it evolve over time and seen Chenoweth to describe these things in multiple ways in writing & video. I trust Chenoweth more than Indivisible on this topic. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

A dynamic model of nonviolent resistance strategy

Why have some nonviolent revolutions succeeded even with modest participation numbers, while others have failed despite massive mobilization? We develop an agent-based model that predicts the outcomes...

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Acorn Baden @acornbaden.bsky.social · 3h

8.Exploit Novel Technologies
9.Innovate New Media&Narratives
10.Coordinate&Share Lessons

Acorn Baden @acornbaden.bsky.social · 3h

1.Build Large&Diverse Participation
2.Induce loyalty shifts among pillars of support
3.Create Nonviolent Discipline
4.Implement Tactical Innovations
5.Move Beyond Mass mobilization
6.Develop Strategy Before Tactics
7.Invest in Movement Cohesion
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m.youtube.com/watch?v=XwyU...

PRIO Annual Peace Address 2024: The Electoral Year – Can Civil Society Save Global Democracy?

YouTube video by Peace Research Institute Oslo

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Acorn Baden @acornbaden.bsky.social · 3h

How do you think Chenoweth uses pillars in a more narrow sense?
There’s 2 strategies Chenoweth mentions but One Million Rising/Courage Collective aren’t doing those instead they seemed to change things. I’m not sure if the changes are supported by the research.

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Acorn Baden @acornbaden.bsky.social · 4h

That’s not how I understood pillars of support or pillar strategies before One Million Rising (OMR). I’ve been following Chenoweth’s work for years and I kept a list of the pillars they mentioned and “education” wasn’t a pillar “academic elites” were a pillar. Something seems off with OMR’s pillars

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Acorn Baden @acornbaden.bsky.social · 4h

But what if the union doesn’t support the regime. I don’t feel like I’m in any pillars of support that support the regime. But One Million Rising says I’m in the business pillar as a consumer! Or the education pillar because I went to school or the healthcare pillar because I’m a patient!

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Acorn Baden @acornbaden.bsky.social · 4h

The way Chenoweth describes it is to not just only build a "negative" coalition (what you don't want) but to build a "positive" coalition (what you do want). From Chenoweth's paper on pillar strategies activist & nonviolent civilians are supposed to aim to shift loyalties of the regime pillars

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Acorn Baden @acornbaden.bsky.social · 4h

The One Million Rising description of pillars or more the way they ask what pillar we are in was confusing. I don't consider myself in a pillar of support for the Regime. Chenoweth talks about Pillar regarding shifting loyalties, not tearing down and Chenoweth recommends building our own.

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Acorn Baden @acornbaden.bsky.social · 6h

This is where I get confused. From reading Erica Chenoweth I thought there were pillars of support for the regime and that building an alternative vision was a separate recommendation, task.

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Acorn Baden @acornbaden.bsky.social · 6h

Oh! That’s okay! I’m severely disabled myself due to chronic illness. There’s are still ways you can be counted as protesting on Saturday without physically being at a protest location. drive.proton.me/urls/JYH75YN...

Acorn Baden @acornbaden.bsky.social · 7h

And jenga drive.proton.me/urls/S84PGCJ...

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Acorn Baden @acornbaden.bsky.social · 7h

One metaphor I came up with is a bridge. drive.proton.me/urls/5H0YY1M...

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Acorn Baden @acornbaden.bsky.social · 7h

Yes, I’m the founder of the We Count Project. I wrote a proposal in early March which turned into a small group of volunteers. We worked on creating a dashboard, public source creator and informational material. We launched our website at the end of August. drive.proton.me/urls/5CDNRTV...

Proton Drive

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Acorn Baden @acornbaden.bsky.social · 7h

Which group? The We Count Project?

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Acorn Baden @acornbaden.bsky.social · 8h

#NoKingsCount #50501 #NoKings #WeCount

Acorn Baden @acornbaden.bsky.social · 8h

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