“We cannot take democracy for granted,” our guest says on this next show in our occasional series “The Power of Many.” He should know. He worked under Nicaraguan administrations that disappointed. Then the next one threw him in jail.

Volya Vysotskaia is one of five Belarusian activists recently tried and convicted in absentia. Their crime? Unmasking police who beat and detained protestors in 2020. Vysotskaia and Serbian pro-democracy advocate Srdja Popovic join Steve Parks in our inaugural installment of “The Power of Many.”