If you're wondering about the "3.5% rule"

I can help

With all the protests going on this past weekend — and the protests that are in the works in the coming weeks — that 3.5% comes from this notion:

Nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts – and those engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change.

You can read more about it here. No government — no matter how authoritarian — can withstand the pushback of just 3.5% of the population.

So when we say we can do this, we can do this.

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