Matti Järvinen<p>So you want to be a dissident?</p><p>Courage is contagious. But how do we catch it?</p><p>For months, <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://bsky.brid.gy/ap/did:plc:owwudjbdv2jkbmdcev774kax" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>amifieldsmeyer.bsky.social</span></a></span> and <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/juliaangwin.com" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>juliaangwin.com</span></a></span> have been asking dissidents and activists from around the world how we can topple authoritarianism. </p><p>We assembled their lessons into a field guide to courage.</p><p><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-weekend-essay/so-you-want-to-be-a-dissident" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">newyorker.com/news/the-weekend</span><span class="invisible">-essay/so-you-want-to-be-a-dissident</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Activist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Activist</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Democracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/regime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>regime</span></a></p>