Akin Olla, Ben Case, Heba Gowayed, and Suchitra Vijayan come together for an urgent public conversation about resistance, repression, and what this moment in the United States is exposing about the possibilities of mass action.
In the aftermath of the violent events in Minneapolis, we ask: what are the limits of American revolt, and what does it actually take to build durable, collective power when public life is increasingly structured to make meaningful resistance hard to sustain?
This conversation traces how dissent is often diluted through the commodification of protest, the gentrification of dissent, the professionalisation of politics, and the steady narrowing of collective life. At the same time, we must recognise a longer lineage of revolt in the U.S.
