Glennon Doyle

I think about when people are calling for a general strike and that's awesome.

It's going to take economic pressure for anything because economic pressure is the only thing that moves anything.

Think of Montgomery bus boycott.

OK, this is the pivotal moment that starts to kind of unravel the whole segregation in the Deep South.

Rosa Parks was super pissed that day.

And so she sat down.

She wasn't tired.

She was tired of always just having to give up her seat and never being able to rest and always having to obey.

Okay, so that looks like a spontaneous act.

And it is.

is in that one particular moment.

The Montgomery bus boycott only worked and started to change the course of history because of people who were working behind the scenes, because of the people who had the infrastructure to make it work.

And they identified that Rosa Parks moment to say, this is where we activate right now.

Like there was the Joanne Robinson.

She worked for the women's

political center.

She worked for 10 years before then to organize women to make sure they had the social structure, to make sure that she was aligning with the churches, aligning with getting everybody's buy-in.

So that night when Rosa Parks sat down, she said, this is the night.

And she went overnight, she worked at the University of Alabama, she printed flyers all night long so they could get them out in the community.

20 women came that morning because she had that network already ready and they took all of the flyers that she had printed and they started circulating them within the organizations of the community.