they simply ask and networks organized online call volunteer lawyers, who drop what they are doing and proceed to the police station. When protesters need food, water or mobile phone data, they ask and food, water and money from an ever-growing fund of global donations is sent. And when they need ambulances or security guards to protect them from hired thugs, from the state itself, they ask, and private ambulance and security services are sent their way.

Don’t

SARS has come to resemble the armed thugs it supposedly combats

Hours before 9, armed soldiers began firing live rounds into the peaceful crowd of protesters, with fatal consequences.

These protests, which continue reinvigorated in other parts of the country, have become about challenging the legitimacy of a defunct political leadership

Who gave our so-called leaders the authority they think they have over us; if we are a democracy, who is really in charge?

imagine the brutality of the arms behind them.

legitimate authority finds its weight in motivating and persuading people without the need to lift a bullying finger.

“If we come together in love, they cannot destroy us.”