Dr. Jack Goldstone

But anyway, it's very frightening that, yes, troops are being sent to LA.

They're being talked about for Chicago.

They're all over DC.

And so if you want to have big, peaceful protests,

It's definitely scarier now than it was even just a couple of years ago.

Well, I love the question because it's wonderful for people to say, what can we do if we're concerned?

Now, I have a lot of friends who write op-eds.

I don't think that's all that effective anymore, to be honest with you.

But what I would urge people to do is reach out through organizations that they belong to, whether it's a neighborhood club or a church or congregation or a parents club in your school.

just talk to people and listen.

Ask them, I'm concerned about some of the things I'm seeing, are you concerned too?

And maybe you can build a group of people in an organization that share concerns and are willing to schedule a march and maybe reach out to other organizations in the town.

We had a pretty successful march on No King's Day.

A lot of communities in America turned out.

But again, the lesson from Martin Luther King, who worked largely through churches to build his network in the beginning, is it takes a sustained campaign to

One day with a million people in the streets, that's a holiday.

That's not a campaign.

What you need is to have people in the streets every weekend for months on end.

That's how the Maidan revolution against a corrupt leader prevailed in the Ukraine.

The central square of Kyiv was filled with people every day for months on end, despite rain, despite snow.