{"id":468,"date":"2006-01-22T16:57:20","date_gmt":"2006-01-22T16:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idiolect.truth.posiweb.net\/notes\/?p=468"},"modified":"2006-01-22T16:57:20","modified_gmt":"2006-01-22T16:57:20","slug":"bloodless-regieme-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/2006\/01\/22\/bloodless-regieme-change\/","title":{"rendered":"bloodless regieme change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an uncharacteristically gushing (and inspiring) story in this week&#8217;s Economist about the possibility of internally-driven, bloodless, regieme change in dictatorships. Some selective quotes (article <a href=\"http:\/\/economist.com\/world\/displaystory.cfm?story_id=E1_VQDRTDQ&#038;CFID=73408400&#038;CFTOKEN=5dcf651-d51121bd-a28f-4fe0-afb5-833f3abf6578\">here<\/a>, paywalled):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But all the evidence is that people power, if it is to bring about a lasting change that increases freedom, must bubble up from below. It must be indigenous, broad-based and, ideally, non-violent.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, the most important factor in contributing to the emergence of a freer society is the presence of strong and cohesive non-violent civic coalitions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It may take years to develop, and it may not always turn out quite as is hoped, but people power is catching: the more often it works, the more often it will be used.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an uncharacteristically gushing (and inspiring) story in this week&#8217;s Economist about the possibility of internally-driven, bloodless, regieme change in dictatorships. Some selective quotes (article here, paywalled): But all the evidence is that people power, if it is to bring about a lasting change that increases freedom, must bubble up from below. It must be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}