Palermo Continued questions from Cairo to Palermo and a constant stream of email messages received on the road, convince me that the Occupy movement is building momentum. It is certainly getting attention, increasingly from serious organizers, labor unions, and others. The news coverage on BBC, Russia Today, and the CCTV Chinese English language station is …
Category: Protests
Cyber-Communication Crackdowns Continue
Lafayette The notion that whole governments including ostensibly liberal democracies like the United Kingdom would simply throw all pretense about freedom of speech out the window when it comes to social networking tools like Facebook, Twitter, and various instant messaging services proves that all of the freedoms we take for granted are just that, taken …
Dilemma Actions: Wild and Powerless Tactics?
New Orleans Gene Sharp, the nonviolence expert, shared a list with that we maintain on the Organizers’ Forum website (www.organziersforum.org) of effective nonviolent tactics useful in authoritarian regimes. Judging from an excellent and encouraging piece in the New York Times by Ellen Barry, Gene may have to update the list, because people are coming up …