The Fight Back : A Citizen’s Guide to Standing Up To Dictators – Maria Ressa

Description

Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Ressa offers a practical handbook for ordinary people who want to defend democracy. She identifies three linked dangers: the collapse of shared facts driven by tech platforms and AI, the weakening of the post-war international order, and institutions that are captured, use the law as a weapon and escape accountability.

Drawing on her own years of resisting the Duterte government in the Philippines, where she was arrested several times, Ressa sets out ten strategic goals broken into a hundred concrete steps. Ressa is the co-founder and CEO of the news site Rappler and a former head of CNN’s bureaus in Manila and Jakarta. The book is a hopeful call to action for anyone worried about the rise of authoritarianism.