When movements are at their most powerful, they not only withdraw cooperation from unjust systems, but build the capacity to live without them.
Barbara Peterson June 1, 2026
This moment demands more than opposition. What is needed is not just resistance against corrupt centralized systems, but to create new, local systems that restructure power so it is dispersed throughout society. Because the problem is not only that those in power abuse it. The problem is that power is concentrated in the first place.
https://wagingnonviolence.org/2026/06/resistance-is-only-half-the-equation