> State powers also learned from nonviolent movements. Like what are some major nonviolent protest movements against state oppression that have significantly ac

> State powers also learned from nonviolent movements. Like what are some major nonviolent protest movements against state oppression that have significantly achieved their goals in the last 50 years? Uhh, the apartheid movement in South Africa? The Bolivian Water Protests? Lech Walesa and Solidarity in Poland? The fall of the Soviet Union? The weakest link against nonviolent civil disobedience movements is precisely that - polite deaths and killings come out strongly in the international media for every country to see. What's changed is the lack of action by the erstwhile guardians of freedom and democracy. For an example of such pressure, look at how much pressure the US put on the UK under FDR and Truman against British brutality in India, or how the entire third world reacted against the apartheid regime in South Africa, jointly. Sure, some people will die, but they'll die as heroes instead of "terrorists" and the like.