Ben Ritz (89:10)
Let me add something on exactly that. Not only the most interesting strategies, but what ATK is needed for. So as Nick was saying, as you were underlying, we cannot take Plays and exactly use them in one country. But I give you a very specific example of a play that I thought was extremely interesting. And now people like me in my own country, or a person, one of the people that wrote to the antidote toolkit Augustinus Wright is using in his country is the play of distributed organizing. So this was a play that was developed from one of our friends, Saradurio, in France, right before the parliamentary elections in France a couple of years ago. So Macron calls for elections three weeks before the actual elections. So people didn't really have the time to organize around the elections and understand what they could do. So what they did is that all of these people came up into a zoom call and they started organizing in order to have a get out the vote campaign and also to understand who they had to move in terms of candidates to allow for the Front national not to win. And so what they developed was like a central team that was very, very small and that was not controlling, but this central team was basically managing the communication of what is it that they can communicate to people that it's going to work and then share the messages with thousands of organizations, influencers, people that could actually move the base and so that this message could get to a wider public as possible in a way that was not coordinated. I mean, that was coordinated, sorry, but that was not controlled. So the main part of the message was there was developed by a central team. But then everybody from influencers to organizations could adopt this message and communicate it in the best way that they needed to in order to reach their own target. And in this way they managed to do these two things, develop a huge GOTV campaign that allowed them to not have the Front national and so the far right party in France win, but also to then have a massive influence on candidates. So which were the candidates that needed to go down in order for have at the local level, let's predict this in order not to have Front Nacional win. And they, they did it. And so now what we're trying to do here in different countries for elections that are coming, it's sort of like replicating the same play, but in a more organized way. So we are adapting this play and we're trying to put together from now influencers, civil societies, journalists that want to have a specific talks, they want to have specific talk topics to talk about for the elections and then have a GOTV campaign run on these topics that will be supported, or we hope are going to be supported by, by center left party slash Democratic parties that go against the Far right. So what we did here was taking the example of what we used, what was used in France and worked, reimagined, wrote it in the AATK into the anti authoritarian toolkit as a play, so a tactic. And then now activists like me are taking it, changing it, and adapting to their own national country context. And this is just one idea, but on antiauthoritarian.com people are going to find 10 volumes on 10 different topics, all of them with place and more than 150 cases of what worked in different countries and literally and how to. So how can you do display from one to seven steps, including tips to make it work in your own context? So the idea is that really this is something live. We want people to take it, use it, make mistakes, but at least try and have something from scratch, like from, to start from. Because I remember that as an activist it was really hard because you had no idea from where you had to start. And now at least we have something that tell us those are the things that are working around the world. You can take it, you can change them, you can use them. This is what we're looking for.
