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2024 Bio Maya Gayer
12024-04-16T13:01:51+00:00Carlin Liu Ziaf35c69e953cd4001ddc41bd48e720246e1701a0841plain2024-04-16T13:01:51+00:00Carlin Liu Ziaf35c69e953cd4001ddc41bd48e720246e1701a08Maya Gayer is a journalist, program manager and content editor with a vast professional experience in the media field in Israel. Her main mission and expertise is making academic knowledge accessible to the general public. She is currently a Fulbright fellow in Public Humanities and an MA student in the Oral History Program at Columbia University, building an oral history archive of the Israeli democracy protest movement as her thesis project.
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1media/Promo_Gayer_Democracy - Maya Gayer.jpgmedia/Promo_Gayer_Democracy - Maya Gayer.jpgmedia/Promo_Gayer_Democracy - Maya Gayer.jpg2024-04-16T13:07:03+00:00FIGHTING FOR DEMOCRACY: LESSONS FROM A PROTEST MOVEMENT (2024)6Learn how civilians can save their democraciesplain2024-04-30T14:05:16+00:00Maya Gayer01/01/2023 - 04/28/2024
By Maya Gayer
In the past decade democracy has seen a global deterioration process, to the extent it was in about 35 years ago. In 2024 more than half of humanity will have a chance to vote in national elections. So what can citizens do to protect their democracies? A good case study is that of the Israeli Democracy Protest Movement - the largest protest movement in Israeli history and one of the most persistent and successful in recent global history. Building on the movement’s oral history project, the website offers lessons learned in fighting for democracy for other societies facing this threat.
The past year has been unprecedentedly dramatic and tumultuous for Israeli citizens. Ever since the newly elected far right-wing government declared its plan for a judicial overhaul in January 2023, there have been protests throughout the country—creating the largest protest movement in Israel’s history and one of the most persistent in recent global history—culminating after 9 months with the October 7th attack. With global democratic deterioration, and the upcoming contentious elections in the US, two leading Israeli organizers, Ronit Levine-Schnur and Shany Granot-Lubaton, will recount the challenges, successes, and failures of the democratic protest movement, reflect on the impact of October 7th events on the movement, and offer insights on fighting for democracy.
