Anti-bending Revolution

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- My followers and I will not rest until the entire city achieves equality and once that goal is achieved, we will equalize the rest of the world! The revolution has begun!

The Equalist revolt is an anti-bender movement currently occurring in Republic City as of 170 ASC.

History
When a masked man named Amon rose to power by exploiting the absence of the Avatar as well as growing tensions between non-benders and benders, he, as well as his rank-and-file of Equalists, orchestrated a revolt against all benders alike. They fought benders with chi blocking, and a variety of equipment such as electrified gloves to counter-act bending and held high resentment towards the current Avatar, Korra.

The Equalists' main revolt was in Republic City, a large metropolis populated with people from all four nations.

Eventually, when the news of Amon's ability to remove bending surfaced in the city, Councilman Tarrlok set up a task force in order to combat the Equalist threat. After recruiting Avatar Korra to the team, the force raided a chi-blocker training school, defeating and capturing all the Equalists there.

Before the Pro-bending Tournament's final match, Amon threatened the United Republic Council via radio to shut down the arena and cancel the event or there would be "severe consequences". However, the council decided to ignore the warning and let the match be played. Metalbender officers were ordered to patrol the area under Chief Beifong's watch. In actuality, it was Amon's plan that the game continue as scheduled. This way, the Equalists could carry out an ambush of the arena. After the match's end, several Equalists who had posed as ordinary spectators incapacitated the officers and some of the other benders with electrified gloves, creating a distraction that gave Amon and his underlings their chance to enter the ring. The raid allowed Amon to demonstrate his abilities to the public by "cleansing" the Wolfbats of their bending and then giving a speech about the revolution and its purpose, effectively declaring war on all benders. Disregarding a run in with the Avatar and the Chief of Police on the arena's roof, they successfully escaped via an airship.

List of known major engagements

 * Battle at the Equalist factory

Trivia

 * The Equalist revolt seems to represent the political revolutions set during the 1920s, mainly the Russian Revolution. It also shows similarities to the equal rights movements of the 1920s and 1960s in the United States as well as more extremist groups like the Black Panthers. Furthermore, the Equalist revolt also shares several similar traits with Mao's Cultural Revolution in the People's Republic of China and his Communist take over of the Republic of China in 1949. Nonetheless, the revolt stresses equality and the leveling of society in the status sense. Unlike the Communist revolution which sought for monetary equality, the Equalist revolt is more like the Civil Rights Movement in the United States because of its interest in societal equality (being born as bender vs being born as a non-bender).