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Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain, Yemen, Libya, Jordon, Oman, Syria… even Madison, Wisconsin, and the list grows day by day. People are filling the streets and demanding change. They want different things, but their protests have one thing in common: they have no leaders. They're organizing without organizations. I'm In this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge, Protest 2.0, how open source protesting is changing the word.
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Today on To the Best of Our Knowledge, Protest 2.0 – how open source protesting is changing the world. First, a little theoretical overview. How exactly does social media allow someone in say, Tunis, to overthrow their government? Jim Fleming talks to Clay Shirky, author of "Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing without Organizations." "V for Vendetta" is the film for the internet's Anonymous movement. They're the hackers who brought down the sites of Master Card, Paypal and Visa after they shut off donations to Wikileaks. Gregg Housh tells Steve Paulson about Anonymous. Steve wanted to know how Gregg could be the spokesperson for an anonymous organization.
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To the Best of Our Knowledge is produced in Madison, Wisconsin, which recently saw this new type of leaderless social media revolution in full bloom. It was in response to Governor Scott Walker announcing his controversial "budget repair bill" that would strip the collective bargaining rights of state employees. One of the sleep-in activists at the State Capitol was writer and blogger Christie Taylor. She kept a diary of her experiences. The Arab Spring caught a lot of people by surprise,but not a group called Global Voices. It's made up of more than 300 bloggers and translators around the world who are closely watching Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and blogs – ready to report when ordinary people become citizen journalists. As they did throughout the events of the Arab Spring. Ivan Sigal, Global Voices' Executive Director, tells Anne Strainchamps about it.
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All eyes have been on the Middle East for some months now. But al Qaeda has been conspicuous for its absence. Many have declared al Qaeda and other Muslim extremist groups irrelevant with regards to the Arab Spring. Irrelevant? Anne Strainchamps posed that question to Romesh Ratnesar, Contributing Editor-at-Large at Time magazine.
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| Clay Shirky, Cognitive Surplus: How Technology Make Consumers into Collaborators (Penguin Books) | |
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Clay Shirky, Here Comes Everybody : The Power of Organizing Without Organizations (Penguin) |
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- To watch the 9-minute documentary
"Skateistan: To Live and Skate in Kabul":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8dYtWXCYE8 - "Union Town" by The Nightwatchman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5ZT71DxLuM
- Ramy Essam singing in Tahrir square
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rEKmTBKiBM
- Here's a video (with translation) for El Général, the Tunisian rapper http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeGlJ7OouR0
- “Remember, Remember” by Dario Marianelli from “V For Vendetta: Music From The Motion Picture” CAROLINE ASTRALWERKS
- “Governments Should be Afraid of Their People” by Dario Marianelli from “V For Vendetta: Music From The Motion Picture” CAROLINE ASTRALWERKS
- “Union Town” by The Nightwatchman. download from artist website
- “Laugh, Revolution” by Ramy Essam. download from the interne
- “Codex” by Radiohead. download from
artist website
- “Rais Lebled” by El General. download
from the artist website
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