I love talking to Ezra. He’s focused, strategic, and determined to build the largest mass pro-democracy movement in American history. It turns out, we Americans aren’t ready to sit on our hands and let Donald Trump and his band of oligarchs entrench their power over us. 150,000 people showed up for Indivisible’s first ever training session in strategic non-violent non-cooperation. That’s a mouthful, but it boils down to this: working together we can protect America’s free press, America’s universities, America’s law firms, the rule of law itself, and our free and fair elections.
Edwin Eisendrath is joined by Ezra Levin, co-founder and co-executive director of Indivisible.
Levin detailed the success of the June 14 "No King's Day" protest, which he called "one of the largest protests in American history," adding: "We were in 2,169 communities, actually, not just in America; we were across 27 countries . . . . And we had 5 to 6 million people, showing up saying, we don't do kings in America. An incredible day, an incredible demonstration of the power of nonviolent, peaceful protest in America.
He also spoke about the launch last week of One Million Rising. "We had 150,000 people register for this training on nonviolent, strategic noncooperation," Levin told Eisendrath. "The experts said this was the largest training in history on nonviolent, strategic noncooperation. So we are breaking records. Lots of people weren't engaged before lifting their heads up and asking themselves the basic question, What can I do? And we're trying to point them in the right direction."
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