Take a good look at the picture of Houeida Anouar. She is in revolutionary posture. YES there were certainly people out in the streets, but they were also sharing news, uploading videos of other people in the streets protesting, building the memes-- the calls to protest, the calls to join the revolution. Anouar also dold me that the revolution did not start in the capitol. It started far away, where people were ripe for revolution. Only when the rest of the nation was ready did they bring the protests to the capitol. There may be something to learn from that.
Zeynep Tufeckci, University of MD, Baltimore Campus, Asst. Professor, Dept. of Sociology/Anthropology, pointed out that " The key to successful non-violent action is that you have to be seen, have to be visible."
Egyptian blogger, democracy activist and revolutionary said, "The fact that it's a dictatorship does not mean that the people are complacent."
I thought to myself how complacent the people are here in the US. Add cable TV, Fox News, forever compromising and apologizing and rationalizing liberal media and we get ... soporofic happy pill people in the land of the lotus eaters.
But I digress. Seeing, talking with, picking the brains of these people fresh from Revolution, unlike our dusty 235 year old founders was an incredibly exhillarating experience. Thank god they are coming to the US. We desperately need them. Perhaps if they talk enough about their work, their courage, their comradeship-- some of it might rub off on we Americans. We sorely need our own Tahrir square.
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