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"After a violent American election season, activists are trying to keep
the peace using technologies and techniques more often applied in
unstable democracies.
As inflamed supporters of Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan.
6, attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election,
members of the DC Peace Team – a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit
organization that promotes nonviolent conflict resolution – were at
Black Lives Matter Plaza, a few blocks from the Capitol, monitoring the
convergence of predominantly white pro-Trump supporters and mainly Black
counterprotesters.
When a white Trump supporter pulled a knife on a Black counterprotester,
team members in bright vests approached the man, hands in the air,
encouraging him to “slow down,” according to the group. Soon, he put
away the knife, and friends pulled him away from the scene.
Five people died in the Capitol attack. But in this one incident, at
least, violence was stopped before it could start."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
