{"id":31174,"date":"2024-01-16T11:28:55","date_gmt":"2024-01-16T19:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=31174"},"modified":"2024-01-16T11:28:55","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T19:28:55","slug":"how-to-build-democracy-in-an-authoritarian-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2024\/01\/16\/how-to-build-democracy-in-an-authoritarian-country\/","title":{"rendered":"How to build democracy \u2014 in an authoritarian country"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-ted wp-block-embed-ted wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tessza Udvarhelyi: How to build democracy \u2014 in an authoritarian country\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.ted.com\/talks\/tessza_udvarhelyi_how_to_build_democracy_in_an_authoritarian_country\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Tessza Udvarhelyi\u00a0| TED Democracy<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 November 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Today, Hungary is in the gray zone between a dictatorship and a democracy,&#8221; says activist Tessza Udvarhelyi. &#8220;This did not happen overnight.&#8221; In a rousing talk, she reminds us just how close any country can come to authoritarianism \u2014 and offers on-the-ground lessons for how to keep democracy alive through focus, determination and imagination. (Followed by a brief Q&amp;A with TED curator Cloe Shasha Brooks)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/topics\/politics\">Politics<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/topics\/social+change\">Social Change<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/topics\/activism\">Activism<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/topics\/democracy\">Democracy<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/topics\/government\">Government<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/topics\/policy\">Policy<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About the speaker<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/speakers\/tessza_udvarhelyi\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/speakers\/tessza_udvarhelyi\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/speakers\/tessza_udvarhelyi\" target=\"_blank\">Tessza Udvarhelyi<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/speakers\/tessza_udvarhelyi\" target=\"_blank\">Movement builder <\/a><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/speakers\/tessza_udvarhelyi\" target=\"_blank\">See speaker profile<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tessza Udvarhelyi promotes active citizenship and critical public engagement in Hungary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tessza Udvarhelyi\u00a0| TED Democracy \u2022 November 2023 &#8220;Today, Hungary is in the gray zone between a dictatorship and a democracy,&#8221; says activist Tessza Udvarhelyi. &#8220;This did not happen overnight.&#8221; In a rousing talk, she reminds us just how close any country can come to authoritarianism \u2014 and offers on-the-ground lessons&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2024\/01\/16\/how-to-build-democracy-in-an-authoritarian-country\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118,1739],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31174"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31175,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31174\/revisions\/31175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}