Anti-Authoritarianism & Us: What We Do Next
Sun, Jul 27
|Chico
This Sunday!! We'll be meeting up to discuss this national moment we're all living through and how we can actively rise to the challenges presented in our community.
Time & Location
Jul 27, 2025, 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM
Chico, 1108 Sherman Ave, Chico, CA 95926, USA
About the event
If you listen to Leah & Ezra’s Podcast, What’s the Plan? The founders of the Indivisible movement, generally sport sunny, upbeat dispositions. You’ve perhaps noted a change. There’s a sudden subtle shift toward a serious, concerned and directed approach: it says “there’s no time to lose.”
Many experts on autocracy and authoritarianism are sounding alarms and stating that the US is currently experiencing “Authoritarian Breakthrough” a key step of power consolidation by a regime working to undermine a current democratic system.
Last week’s broadcast featured What’s the Plan’s first-ever guest speaker, none other than Erika Chenoweth, the researcher behind the 3.5% threshold concept (see our blog post for details and sources on this topic). The questions posed by the audience were deeply specific and serious:
”How should we think about power itself in this context [of power consolidation]? What are the sources of authoritarian power and how can non-violent movements challenge…