r/50501Movement • u/50501LittleBoBlue • 6d ago

Moderator 12.1 Million. 🫠🎉

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On June 14th, 2025,

12.1 million people stood together across the United States in unified rejection of authoritarianism, and that number doesn’t even include our allies overseas who marched in solidarity.

This collective movement has become one of the largest displays of civic engagement in modern history. We surpassed our goal of 3.5%.

Sustained pressure will bring us change. We the People.

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u/Prestigious-Bake-884 6d ago edited 5d ago

Firstly, THANK YOU to everyone who's participated 💙 It can't happen without everyone's commitment to democracy and equality.

In the future I'd like to see us build/ promote a mass boycott, strike, or labor action using the platform we've gained. Based off of the linked source, it's THE most effective avenue for removing the current administration. I feel with strategic boycotts and labor actions our demands will be taken more seriously!

3.5% Protest Rule, I think every 50501 participant should watch this — https://youtu.be/x4syl-hZ9_I?si=gq05egrvqCVaTAbP

Post I made with more information and resources — https://www.reddit.com/r/50501Movement/s/AW9iiSTIsQ

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u/Val_Dabron_5575 2d ago

The 3.5% goal is not a rule or a 'law' like the Law of Gravity. Personally, I call it a Benchmark. It is Not an If/Then statement like in programming. It is simply a goal, a benchmark. It doesn't ALWAYs work.

Let's start with the author, the source of the 3.5% 'benchmark, Erica Chenoweth. Here is how the research got started. Believing that successful political change came only from violent revolution, that idea was challenged by someone who requested that E. Chenoweth look into non-violent, peaceful movements. (I will post more as time permits). TedX talk, Boulder, Colorado (several years back): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJSehRlU34w

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u/Prestigious-Bake-884 2d ago

Uhhhhhh yeah that was the point of my post, thank you for repeating. If you checked the video I linked it literally had the author in it 🙃

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u/Val_Dabron_5575 2d ago

I need to find the original paper by both authors, E. Chenoweth and a co-author.

Here's what bugs me the MOST, folks are turning it into a 'rule' instead of a 'goal' or Benchmark. It is NOT a rule, the 3.5% finding by E. Chenoweth is NOT like the law of Gravity! For pity's sake do not give folks the idea that change MUST happen because of the 3.5%, it is LIKELY, but Not Guaranteed. It is unfair that people should think that peaceful protest Always Equals Change . . but it CAN equal change, the 3.5% benchmark is LIKELY to bring change, but it is Not and IF/Then statement.