bravest coward

adventuresinlearning:

 

1. The next time you’re with family or friends, discuss a particular cause, instead of letting the conversation drift to celebrity gossip.
2. Be mindful of the fact that the news channels synthesize events in ways which make the individual feel as if activism is hopeless.
3. Try to make friends that are politically involved, instead of maintaining the same old school friends.
4. Stay focused on one particular cause, it’s fine to take up many causes, but always recognize your main cause.
5. Call a big bank that was bailed out in 2008 by the people and ask them if they would be willing to bail out poor families.
6. Go to a protest, do not let the stigma propagated by the mass media keep you away from protests.
7. When your friends talk to you about new consumer products, change the topic to political causes instead.
8. If you’re going to a protest, try to bring as many of your friends as you can.
9. When friends say that protestors are ‘crazy’, explain to them exhilarating feeling of being part of a large politically conscious group.
10. Being an activist requires sacrifice, you will lose many brainwashed friends along the way, but who needs them anyway!

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noam-chomsky:

Renowned critic and always MIT linguist Noam Chomsky, one of the classic voices of intellectual dissent in the last decade, has compiled a list of the ten most common and effective strategies resorted to by the agendas “hidden” to establish a manipulation of the population through the…

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mind-r-evolution:

Inspired by the Arab spring, the uprises a bit everywhere in Europe, by the occupiers, by the tea party demonstrators, and the many other protests, people in the west are waking up from a state of granted accommodation to a free market capitalism, into a wide-range perspective debate over…

thepoliticalnotebook:

Michael Albany, a member of Occupy Philly’s Safety Team and who has been regularly contributing photography of the protests to The Political Notebook, has started putting together a training program for men to work on rape prevention and awareness.

Here’s his intro:

Women live with the…

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