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Does Civil Disobedience Need to Evolve?
“October 7, 2025” from the Tolstoy & I series, pencil on published text 11”x8.5” Aviva Rahmani
Civilization is built on community. We live in a global community. Any healthy community depends on empathy to survive. Empathy informs justice. Without justice, there cannot be community or civilization. The reckless murders of Venezuelan fishermen to provide images of masculine prowess are sickening.
The recent and on-going dissonance of the richest country on Earth withholding food and health care from its citizens, on the wake of demolishing the East, First Lady’s Wing of the People’s House, holding this country hostage to bloated billionaires, even as they flaunt their wealth in lavish public parties is shocking. Historically effective strategies have not mitigated this scale of cruelty. That might be a failure we need to face and consider what might be missing. How effective is conventional civil disobedience today?