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When it comes to protests I've noticed two issues:

1. Protests especially in local cities are not being covered at all.

2. The media focuses almost exclusively on the violent aspect which is just a tiny portion of protest activity and a lot is just opportunities who don't care at all about the protest cause and are taking advantage of the fact that police are distracted to cause destruction and steal from stores.

We have the power to fight back. We can contact the media and first of all for local media use their tip line to say where and when there will be peaceful protests. This will increase the likelihood your local media will cover it which can trickle up to national media.

The second thing is for national media use the feedback option to contact them and demand they accurately cover the protests.

Here are some links to submit feedback to national media:

ABC News: https://support.abc.com/hc/en-us/requests/new?ticket_form_id=360003079511

NBC News: https://www.nbcnews.com/information/nbc-news-info/contact-us-n1232521

CBS News: https://www.cbs.com/showfeedback/

CNN: https://help.cnn.com/us/feedback

For how to write the feedback I'd just say keep it short and speak your mind. Don't worry too much about being perfect, the most important thing is they get lots of feedback from real people.

Here is a sample. Please do NOT copy and paste, it's just a starting point.

I saw your show the other day and I feel that it wasn't representative of what the protests are like. When I was there it was completely peaceful and I've seen lots of videos online on social media showing peaceful protests but your coverage didn't include that, instead it showed video of people who are opportunists who are not involved with protesting causing chaos.

I'm calling on {NEWS STATION REPLACE THIS PART ex: ABC News} to spend a lot more time covering the peaceful protests which represent the vast majority of the protests and show less footage of the violence.

Archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20250609174157/https://bsky.app/profile/anneapplebaum.bsky.social/post/3lr6ssiwzic2l

Remember that Twitter is also giving a platform to neo-Nazis. That's why it's important everyone stop using Twitter and switch to alternatives such as Bluesky and Mastodon.

Erica Chenoweth initially thought that only violent protests were effective. However after analyzing 323 movements the results were opposite of what Erica thought:

For the next two years, Chenoweth and Stephan collected data on all violent and nonviolent campaigns from 1900 to 2006 that resulted in the overthrow of a government or in territorial liberation. They created a data set of 323 mass actions. Chenoweth analyzed nearly 160 variables related to success criteria, participant categories, state capacity, and more. The results turned her earlier paradigm on its head — in the aggregate, nonviolent civil resistance was far more effective in producing change.

If campaigns allow their repression to throw the movement into total disarray or they use it as a pretext to militarize their campaign, then they’re essentially co-signing what the regime wants — for the resisters to play on its own playing field. And they’re probably going to get totally crushed.

Archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20250120031402/https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lg4vvxtcff2e

These words are included in the official CNN transcript too: https://transcripts.cnn.com/show/cnr/date/2025-01-19/segment/05

CEO of Tesla and acting President-elect Musk is going on a neo-Nazi binge endorsing far right candidates instead of properly running the companies he's involved in such as Tesla.

In addition Tesla is considered one of the most unreliable car brands according to: https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-placed-bottom-consumer-reports-reliability-rankings/

Moreover Tesla has the highest fatal accident rates of all car brands according to: https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a62919131/tesla-has-highest-fatal-accident-rate-of-all-auto-brands-study/

Also there are privacy implications with using a car that could in theory spy on you: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/05/massive-trove-of-tesla-files-contains-thousands-of-safety-complaints/

Now that more competent and establish brands are making EVs there's no reason to buy a Tesla if you want an EV. I'm not here to recommend another brand, I'm just here to tell you that your next EV should be anything other than a Tesla.

Source: https://bsky.app/profile/aaronsojourner.org/post/3ldwx5aspfc2f

I'm really impressed by the courage of the Amazon workers who are going on strike. I was thinking what if one of the conditions of the strikers is that Amazon stops funding Republicans. Then I realized more broadly what if workers in all companies went on strike and demanded that the companies no longer funded Republican candidates. What are your thoughts on this?

For Musk free speech is code word for "things I agree with"