YES! From Fast Food strikes to Ferguson, people are getting active.
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NO! It's just that the corporate media is finally covering protests!
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There is without a doubt an increase in protests and civil activism, both on the Left and on the Right. However, we are also seeing an attempt by the corporate media to exploit events and the protesters, and on occassion, to try and manufacture events. The corporate media has been very careful not to cover protests and other events which would reflect negatively on its agenda. Accordingly, protestors and organziers must make better use of social media outlets to make sure their message gets out so that more people become aware of what's actually going on and not what the corporate media wants us to believe is going on, if anything.
Things will change when people feel threatened but we humans get lazy about about life when things are OK. Thomas Jefferson knew we would always have to keep a revolutionary spirit if we wanted a true democracy. Of course, he needed to free his slaves and he never did that. We become philosophers when we need to become activists, as Thoreau and M. Gandhi knew well.
protest changes little. it mostly makes protesters feel good about themselves, that they're "taking action," while changing nothing.
marching clogs streets, costs govt much in police overtime. the real job is to change monds and votes.