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<p><span style="">A '''moment of the whirlwind '''is a </span><span style="">rupture with the normal workings of society resulting in a wave of new activist waters for a cause or movement.&nbsp;</span><span style="">At such times, it is useful for a movement to have established a retention </span><span style="">plan in order to absorb active supporters. </span><span style="">Moments of the whirlwind constitute social crises that can be consciously perpetrated by social movements.&nbsp;</span><span style="">-Mark and Paul Engler <ref> https://wagingnonviolence.org/2014/11/berlin-wall-today-lessons-harnessing-moment-whirlwind/</ref> </span></p>
<p><span style="">A '''moment of the whirlwind '''is ''a ''</span>''<span>rupture with the normal workings of society resulting in a wave of new activist waters for a cause or movement. </span><span>At such times, it is useful for a movement to have established a retention </span><span>plan in order to absorb active supporters. </span>''<span style="">''Moments of the whirlwind constitute social crises that can be consciously perpetrated by social movements.''&nbsp;</span><span style="">-Mark and Paul Engler <ref> https://wagingnonviolence.org/2014/11/berlin-wall-today-lessons-harnessing-moment-whirlwind/</ref> </span></p>




==Examples of moment of the whirlwind==
== Examples of moment of the whirlwind ==


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Disposability discourse
'''The Three Mile Island power plant in 1979'''
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Much discussion around the severity of COVID was lessened by expressing how it mainly sickens and kills elderly, chronically ill, and disabled people. This discourse suggests these groups are seen disposable.&nbsp;
*Just days after the plant had an accident, a previously planned anti-nuclear rally in San Francisco that ordinarily might have attracted hundreds of participants instead drew a crowd of 25,000. <ref>https://wagingnonviolence.org/2014/11/berlin-wall-today-lessons-harnessing-moment-whirlwind/</ref>
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Loosened restrictions too early
'''Rosa parks arrest'''
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When governments loosened COVID restrictions in response to business demands, political pressure, and public impatience, rather than scientific evidence, high risk populations (the chronically ill, disabled and elderly) were subsequently told they are disposable yet again.&nbsp;
*The 1955 arrest of Rosa Parks for refusing to move to the back of a segregated bus prompted a community-wide boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, <ref>https://wagingnonviolence.org/2014/11/berlin-wall-today-lessons-harnessing-moment-whirlwind/</ref>
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Working through illness
'''Wet'suwet'en Raids'''
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Regulations around how many sick days should be required when someone falls ill with COVID also demonstrated ableism. In relation to these regulations, and in favour of profit above health, many politicians including US President Joe Biden, praised themselves for working through COVID, instead of encouraging people to rest and recover if they'd fallen ill.&nbsp;
*The violent raids by military and RCMP on Wet'suwet'en land defenders that occured in 2020 can be considered a trigger event, as numerous civil disobedience actions sprung up in solidarity after the incident.  <ref>https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2020/02/15/wetsuweten-solidarity-gains-steam-whats-led-to-this-watershed-moment-in-indigenous-resistance.html</ref>  
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Individualism
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Individuals have been encouraged to make 'personal' choices on vaccines (without legitimate health restrictions), masks and gatherings.
 
"''There is no individual safety without collective safety and collective safety requires that no one is safe unless everyone is safe." - Mia Mingus <ref>https://leavingevidence.wordpress.com/2022/01/16/you-are-not-entitled-to-our-deaths-covid-abled-supremacy-interdependence/</ref> ''
 
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A moment of the whirlwind is a rupture with the normal workings of society resulting in a wave of new activist waters for a cause or movement. At such times, it is useful for a movement to have established a retention plan in order to absorb active supporters. Moments of the whirlwind constitute social crises that can be consciously perpetrated by social movements. -Mark and Paul Engler [1]


Examples of moment of the whirlwind

The Three Mile Island power plant in 1979

  • Just days after the plant had an accident, a previously planned anti-nuclear rally in San Francisco that ordinarily might have attracted hundreds of participants instead drew a crowd of 25,000. [2]

Rosa parks arrest

  • The 1955 arrest of Rosa Parks for refusing to move to the back of a segregated bus prompted a community-wide boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, [3]

Wet'suwet'en Raids

  • The violent raids by military and RCMP on Wet'suwet'en land defenders that occured in 2020 can be considered a trigger event, as numerous civil disobedience actions sprung up in solidarity after the incident. [4]


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  1. ↑ https://wagingnonviolence.org/2014/11/berlin-wall-today-lessons-harnessing-moment-whirlwind/
  2. ↑ https://wagingnonviolence.org/2014/11/berlin-wall-today-lessons-harnessing-moment-whirlwind/
  3. ↑ https://wagingnonviolence.org/2014/11/berlin-wall-today-lessons-harnessing-moment-whirlwind/
  4. ↑ https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2020/02/15/wetsuweten-solidarity-gains-steam-whats-led-to-this-watershed-moment-in-indigenous-resistance.html
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