How are people aroused to action and why do they decide to join civil resistance campaigns despite a high degree of risk and uncertainty of outcomes? In other words, how do people reach ‘cognitive liberation’ that breaks the barrier of apathy, shatters fear and awakens their minds to civic reengagement and self-organization? These questions are linked with the reflections on how civil resistance movements build their case for change and how they use opponents’ anti-movement rhetoric and actions to diminish the adversary while galvanizing greater participation, gaining greater visibility and developing resilience.

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1. We do not know how majority feels and if
we are indeed majority
2. We do not know if others will join and
whether they will come out again
3. We do not know if our resistance will
remain nonviolent in the face of
oppression and provocations
4. We do not know if we eventually succeed
How does a dissent movement emerge?

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5. Matrix – 12 more years of Putin in power
Truth – here and now

6. If every day a man takes
orders in silence from an
incompetent superior, if every
day he solemnly performs
ritual acts which he privately
finds ridiculous, if he (…) is
prepared to deny his own self
in public (…) it still does not
mean that he has entirely lost
the use of one of the basic
human senses, namely, the
sense of humiliation.
Vaclav Havel

10. “We really hate
stupidity,”
A Protester in Russia

13. We do not
need used
pres-ident

14. We are not
Banderlogs. We are
citizens of Russia. Did
you get it Python?
“What can I say in this case? I can say:
“Come to me, banderlogs,” V. Putin. He cited
python Kaa from Kipling's "Jungle Book" who
call on monkeys only to suffocate them...

15. We are not sheep
We are not sheep. We are best
part of our society

16. “Sure, there are people who have a Russian
passport but act in interests of a foreign state
and for foreign money” V. Putin
“I know that students were paid some I am here UNPAID
money — well, that’s good if they
could earn something” V. Putin
Vladimir Putin
I am here not for money
I dislike you free of charge Obama paid me in person

17. I am a human being I am not vegetable
Stand/Serve!
Speak/Vote!
Give paw!
“This is how they
We are not want us to be.
Whether to be
slaves awakened or not -
depends only on us”

18. Percentage of jokes about the
elections versus percentage of
jokes in total
The Chairman of the Election Commission comes to Putin
after the election: I have good news and bad news. Which
do you want to hear first? The bad news.
Zyuganov, the Communist Party candidate, got 75% of the
votes. Holy crap! – cried Putin. What’s the good news?
You got 76%.

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- Rediscovering citizenship
- Rediscovering patriotism

20. Responsibility towards future generation

23. I guess I can do it as well

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