Example Answers

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11. Acceptable answers include: issues, goals, mission statement, leadership, volunteers, treasurer, meetings, ... Feel free to add to the list.

12. Answer should explain 10 or more ways in which the activism ensured its success.

Example answer:

The Ukraininan Orange Revolution successfully countered electoral fraud and toppled an illegitimate president by doing many things right.

• They learned important lessons from the example of the victorious Rose Revolutioon in Georgia which toppled a corrupt government.
• They anticipated electoral fraud would occur.
• They trained a large force of election observers to catch such irregularities when they occured.
• They equipped the observers with thousands of cameras to record evidence of fraud.
• They exposed cheating and brought their evidence before international media, bringing widespread sympathy.
• They responded to the fraud by making a bold protest in Kiev Square around the government's headquarters.
• They made the sustained the protest day after day by building a tent city.
• They supplied campers with enormous amounts of essentials like food, latrines, heaters and oil.
• They entertained protestors with daily rock concerts held on stages left over from previous shows, keeping morale high.
• They maintained more than 50,000 people in front of international media, making it impractical for the Army's 15,000 soldiers to disperse them while the world watched.

The Orange Revolutionaries used these and many other effective techniques to hold out until the government gave in.

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