Egypt's Ahmed Salah: How to Make a Revolution

Throw out everything you think you know about revolution. This is reality, not theory. “How do you get enough people in the street to reach the tipping point where everyone with enough anti-regime sentiment will feel safe enough to demonstrate? How do you communicate effectively within the movement, and tell the movement’s side of the story to the outside world? And how do you sustain pressure on the regime despite [...]

 

Politicians, Activists, The Internet, and The Epistemological Tug of War Over The Masses

Over the last 6 months I’ve watched, read, and talked about the following few things: Occupy Wall Street, the US political system, and the internet. As I think back on the past months, I begin to look closer to make sense of what has been happening. Over the past 6 months I have spent a majority of my time on the internet. During that time I was practically glued to [...]