From: Matt Renner <messenger@truthout.org>
Subject: Just enough to stave off revolt, but for how long?
Date: August 16, 2011 9:40:05 PM AST
Reply-To: messenger@truthout.org
Somebody, after all, had to make a start. What we wrote and said is also believed by many others. They just do not dare express themselves as we did.
-Sophie Scholl, The White Rose Society *
There is an active resistance forming in the United States. It’s young, it’s unemployed, it’s creative and it has potential.
Recently I sat down with two of the young adults who organized and led the Egyptian resistance movement that overthrew Hosni Mubarak. The media narrative said it took 18 days, when in fact, they had been organizing for over five years.
According to these young men, the moment they knew they had won was the day Mubarak’s government shut off the Internet and blocked cellphone communications. When people could no longer get updates about what was happening in Tahrir Square, they had to come out of their homes and see for themselves, tripling the size of the protests in one fell swoop.
The global plutocracy is terrified of dissent. In some places, the war on dissent is being fought with bullets. In others, the war on dissent targets social media and mobile communications, while repressing and deceiving communities of struggle. It’s already happening.
As the saying goes, the first casualty of war is truth. Our first response in the mounting war on dissent is to get the truth out to any and all who will listen. Can you join us?
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Matt Renner, Director of Development*I found the quotation at the beginning of this letter in a new book I just started reading called "Deep Green Resistance."
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