Unjust Systems of Power are Solvable
Solvable
Pushkin Industries
4.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 17 June 2020
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Host Anne Applebaum speaks with Srdja Popovic about how strategic nonviolent action can bring about lasting and meaningful social change.
Srdja Popovic is the executive director of the Centre for Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies (CANVAS). He's a social change educator who draws on his experience as a leader of the student movement Otpor! Optor! is credited with helping to oust Serbian president Slobodan Milošević using creative and strategic techniques that marry humor and coalition building. He is the author of Blueprint for Revolution: How to Use Rice Pudding, Lego Men, and Other Nonviolent Techniques to Galvanize Communities, Overthrow Dictators, or Simply Change the World.
Popovic references a series of short educational videos about nonviolent strategies which can be found at www.canvasopedia.org
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:15.4 | This is Solvable. |
| 0:17.3 | I'm your host, Jacob Weisberg. |
| 0:24.6 | My Solvable is to get one million women and girls to learn how to code. My solvable is breaking the wall of depression. |
| 0:27.6 | My solvable is to take energy to where communities are. |
| 0:31.6 | I want to tackle this problem because I know it can be solved. |
| 0:35.6 | We're excited to share with you a new season of conversations with leaders and change makers |
| 0:41.3 | about how to solve the world's biggest problems. This is an extraordinary moment. We're living |
| 0:46.8 | through a global pandemic and in the United States, we're experiencing the most powerful |
| 0:51.9 | protest movement of my lifetime against police brutality and racial injustice. |
| 0:57.3 | It's a time of great possibility. Our society seems to be open to the kinds of moral and social |
| 1:02.7 | transformations that were much harder to imagine before the virus and before the killing of George Floyd. |
| 1:12.6 | For this, our second season, |
| 1:14.8 | I'll be joined again by my Pushkin co-founder Malcolm Gladwell |
| 1:18.1 | and journalist and friend Anne Applebaum, |
| 1:20.7 | a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and staff writer at the Atlantic. |
| 1:25.1 | To start this season, we're focusing on two problems, racial injustice |
| 1:29.4 | and the 2020 election. We can have an election that is participatory with robust turnout in 2020. |
| 1:37.8 | Justice isn't blind. We have to be far more critical and thoughtful and have that lens on. |
| 1:44.0 | On today's episode, we hear from an international expert on nonviolent protest. |
| 1:49.6 | Let's solve this one big issue. Let's have more racial equality. And then we are going to look |
| 1:54.4 | at our narcissism of small differences later. When the outcry went up over George Floyd's |
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