Event
How Should Citizens Resist Authoritarian Rule?
Event Speaker
Farida Nabourema, Togolese Activist and Blogger
Jeb Bush, Former Florida Governor and Penn Presidential Professor of Practice
Moderated by: Mitchell Orenstein, Professor of Russian and East European Studies
3803 Locust Walk, Philadelphia
Join the Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy, Perry World House and Africana Studies at Penn for the last "Democracy in Trouble?" Panel Discussion of the year
This event is free and open to the public.
Is it time for Americans to draw inspiration from movements against authoritarianism that have emerged around the world in places such as Togo – or rather, should we strive for a politics of civility and accommodation to forestall a slide into crisis and, in consequence, the very authoritarianism we fear?