# People Power Revolution

> People Power Revolution is mapped as the refusal travels: it adapts disciplined noncooperation across empires, dictatorships, occupations, and democracies.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Stable ID | `node:kiduna:political-change:global-nonviolence:people-power-revolution` |
| Family | Global Nonviolent Lineages |
| Domain | History |
| Kind | lineage |
| Archetypal function | The Refusal Travels |
| Epistemic status | sourced_claim; supported |

## Concrete anchor

People Power Revolution belongs to the **Global Nonviolent Lineages** family. It is treated as a specific political object, role, institution, tactic, event, ideology, or mechanism before any symbolic transfer is made.

## What it does

People Power Revolution adapts disciplined noncooperation across empires, dictatorships, occupations, and democracies, changing who can act, what becomes visible, and which costs are distributed to others.

## Who gains and who loses power

The mechanism can increase the capacity of actors able to use People Power Revolution, while shifting cost, delay, risk, exclusion, or dependence toward actors with less authority, information, organization, money, or safe access. The distribution is conditional, not an essence of the node.

## Archetypal function

**The Refusal Travels.** People Power Revolution is mapped as the refusal travels: it adapts disciplined noncooperation across empires, dictatorships, occupations, and democracies.

## Gift

carries strategy and moral imagination across contexts; through People Power Revolution, that capacity becomes available for deliberate use.

## Wound / Shadow

flattens local histories into a heroic universal recipe; People Power Revolution can then reproduce the very arrangement it claims to change.

## Conditions

- scale and jurisdiction are explicit
- affected people and absent stakeholders are named
- time horizon and countermoves are considered

## Strategic meaning

Use People Power Revolution to identify the operative target, resource, dependency, decision forum, and likely countermove. Ask what would make the mechanism stronger, weaker, more legitimate, or less necessary.

## Divinatory meaning

The Refusal Travels enters through People Power Revolution. Read for the capacity seeking expression, the cost displaced from view, and the relationship that changes if the frame moves.

**Question:** What changes when People Power Revolution becomes the unit of analysis rather than background?

## Game function

**constraint.** Reveal one hidden dependency connected to People Power Revolution; another player names a countermove. Initiative 2.

## Relationships

- **legitimizes — Dolores Huerta:** Dolores Huerta legitimizes People Power Revolution by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(cultural_historical; supported)_
- **mobilizes — Solidarity Movement Poland:** People Power Revolution mobilizes Solidarity Movement Poland by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(cultural_historical; supported)_
- **institutionalizes — Frame:** People Power Revolution institutionalizes Frame by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(interpretive; tentative)_
- **mobilizes — Power-Sharing Agreement:** Power-Sharing Agreement mobilizes People Power Revolution by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(interpretive; tentative)_

## Countermaps and polarity prompts

- Read People Power Revolution from the viewpoint of the actor who bears its cost.
- Reverse cause and symptom: what if People Power Revolution is an effect of the system it appears to drive?
- Change the clock: what looks different over a day, an election cycle, a generation, and a century?
- Ask when the Gift becomes the Wound through scale, secrecy, intensity, latency, or unequal reciprocity.

## Epistemic and Sentinel note

Claim layers: cultural_historical, interpretive, symbolic_divinatory. Scope, jurisdiction, period, and source perspective may change the claim.
No node-specific Sentinel factors were recorded; ordinary source, audience, and context checks still apply.

## Visual direction

A text-free enamel expression of People Power Revolution: one dominant mechanism, one counterforce, raised warm-metal linework, midnight field, restrained civic red, teal, ivory, and amber. No party logo, national flag, sacred symbol, or recognizable person.

## Research / provenance

- [Gandhi Heritage Portal](https://www.gandhiheritageportal.org/) — Sabarmati Ashram Preservation and Memorial Trust, ongoing. Digitized writings and historical materials; interpretations require context.
- [Why Civil Resistance Works](https://cup.columbia.edu/book/why-civil-resistance-works/9780231156820) — Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephan, 2011. Comparative study of violent and nonviolent campaigns, with scope and coding limits.
- [198 Methods of Nonviolent Action](https://www.aeinstein.org/nonviolentaction/198-methods-of-nonviolent-action/) — Albert Einstein Institution, 1973. Tactic taxonomy; inclusion does not imply effectiveness or ethical endorsement in every context.

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Engine Output version 1.0.0; generated 2026-08-24T00:00:00Z. Sentinel annotations are stored separately in `sentinel/handoffs.json`.
