Links For the Egyptian/North African Revolution #ChickenRevolution 12.0

The big news in this wrap-up is potential civil war in Libya. (JK)

Chicken Revolution 12.0

Egypt Takes a Step Back From IMF Ways Saturday 20 February 2010

http://www.truth-out.org/egypt-takes-a-step-back-from-imf-ways67925

Egypt’s largest factory strikes despite warning  19 February 2011 – 12H00

http://www.france24.com/en/20110219-egypts-largest-factory-strikes-despite-warning

View one woman’s battle against Mubarak’s regime — and her family.

http://video.pbs.org/video/1806302451

We Stand With You as You Stood With Us’: Statement to Workers of Wisconsin by Kamal Abbas of Egypt’s Centre for Trade Unions and Workers Services

http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/must-read/statement-kamal-abbas

Bahrain opposition plots strategy before talks

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/ml_bahrain_protests

A ‘time for martyrs’ in Bahrain

As demonstrators rally in the island kingdom, our correspondent reports from protests, funerals and hospitals.

http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/features/2011/02/2011220144153537485.html

Bahrain: Protesters Continue to Camp at Pearl Roundabout

http://globalvoicesonline.org/2011/02/20/bahrain-protesters-continue-to-camp-at-pearl-roundabout/

As of Saturday February 19, 2011, several people have been killed and hundreds more have been brutally injured in Bahrain.

http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/677/notes-from-the-bahraini-field_updated-

Algeria: Protesters hurt as police try to halt demonstration

http://globalvoicesonline.org/2011/02/20/algeria-protesters-hurt-as-police-try-to-halt-demonstration/

Libyan protesters brave bullets to close in on Gaddafi

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/21/libya-protests-idUSLDE71K00720110221

Unrest spreads to Libyan capital as Arab protests simmer

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/21/us-protests-idUSTRE71F41K20110221

Libya clashes spread to Tripoli

Clashes between anti-government protesters and Gaddafi supporters escalate as army unit ‘defects’ in Benghazi.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/02/20112202148108558.html

Live Blog – Libya

http://blogs.aljazeera.net/middle-east/2011/02/17/live-blog-libya#feb19

Libyan forces fire on mourners at funeral again

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/20/AR2011022000354.html

Libya: The bloodiest uprising the Maghreb has ever seen

http://www.philipbrennan.net/2011/02/20/libya-the-bloodiest-uprising-the-maghreb-has-ever-seen/

Uprising flares in Libyan city

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/02/201122014259976293.html

Libyan unrest spreads to Tripoli as Benghazi erupts

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110220/wl_nm/us_libya_protests

[SAVE-LIBYA] Celebrations Erupt As Benghazi Is Declared Free From Gaddafi

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NF2XlD4iKOQ

Protests spread to Libyan capital, troops defect

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/02/21/3143994.htm?section=justin

Egyptian activists and tribes organize Libya-bound aid convoy

http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/news/egyptian-activists-and-tribes-organize-libya-bound-aid-convoy

Translation of Shaikh AsSadiq Al Gheryani’s statement to the People of Libya

Posted on February 20, 2011 by admin

http://www.libyafeb17.com/?p=1266

Gaddafi’s son warns of civil war

Appearing on Libyan state television, Seif al-Islam Gaddafi said his father is in the country and backed by the army.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/02/2011220232725966251.html

Syria: ‘A kingdom of silence’

Analysts say a popular president, dreaded security forces and religious diversity make a Syrian revolution unlikely.

http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/features/2011/02/201129103121562395.html

Morocco Joins Middle East Protests: Protesters Demand New Constitution, Economic Reforms

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/20/morocco-protests-new-constitution_n_825713.html

Morocco: Across the Nation, Demonstration

http://globalvoicesonline.org/2011/02/20/morocco-across-the-nation-demonstration/

Security forces quell opposition protests in Tehran

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/20/AR2011022001214.html

China Cracks Down on Protest Threats, Rounds Up Dissidents

http://www.truth-out.org/china-cracks-down-protest-threats-rounds-dissidents67924

China rounds up 100 activists to rapidly quash pro-democracy ‘Jasmine Revolution’ organised online

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1358834/China-quashes-pro-democracy-Jasmine-Revolution-force.html#ixzz1EZ10pgeW

Chinese Security Officials Respond to Call for Protests

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/21/world/asia/21china.html?_r=1&hp

Anonymous and the global correction

A loosely organised group of hackers is targeting oppressive regimes and says this is just the beginning.

http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/02/201121321487750509.html

Unrest in the Middle East and North Africa — country by country

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/meast/02/19/mideast.africa.unrest/index.html

When Armies Decide

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/20/weekinreview/20military.html?_r=1

Blood and dust

Filmmaker Vaughan Smith spent 10 days recording life and death on a US Medevac helicopter in Afghanistan.

http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/peopleandpower/2011/02/201121673217263109.html

Top Five Myths about the Middle East Protests

http://www.juancole.com/2011/02/top-five-myths-about-the-middle-east-protests.html

Independent Egyptian Unions Express Solidarity with Wisconsin Workers, 02.20.2011

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pgxh5ByzRVQ

It’s not radical Islam that worries the US – it’s independence

The nature of any regime it backs in the Arab world is secondary to control. Subjects are ignored until they break their chains

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/feb/04/radical-islam-united-states-independence

Unrest in the Middle East and North Africa — country by country

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/meast/02/19/mideast.africa.unrest/index.html

Arab world set for renaissance as protests spread across region

http://gulfnews.com/news/region/arab-world-set-for-renaissance-as-protests-spread-across-region-1.765141

How Egyptian Women Took Back the Street Between Two “Black Wednesdays”

http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/694/how-egyptian-women-took-back-the-street-between-two-“black-wednesdays”_a-first-person-account-

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Chicken Revolution 11.0

Strike ends in Egypt’s largest factory in Mahallah

About 15,000 Mahalla workers ended their strike after main demands were met

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/5984/Egypt/Politics-/Strike-ends-in-Egypts-largest-factory-in-Mahallah.aspx

Egyptian Revolution 2011- The Most Dramatic Footage From the 18-day Revolution

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J56oGIznUOQ

Music video recorded in Tahrir Square goes viral

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/02/18/song-of-the-revolution-was-recorded-in-tahrir-square/

The Arab world at a tipping point?

http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/02/20112275944781596.html

Blooms replace bullets in Bahrain, while the region hits boiling point

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/blooms-replace-bullets-in-bahrain-while-the-region-hits-boiling-point-2220132.html

What’s Happening in Bahrain: Explained

http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/02/whats-happening-in-bahrain?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Motherjones%2Fmojoblog+(MotherJones.com+|+MoJoBlog)&utm_content=Google+Reader

Libya protests: Reports of intense Benghazi violence

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-12516156

20 February 2011 Last updated at 09:12 ET

Libya unrest: Scores killed in Benghazi ‘massacre’

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-12517327

Leaders of Libya and Yemen meet protests with deadly force

As revolt spreads through the Arab world, Libyan President Moammar Kadafi and Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh take brutal steps to retain power.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-libya-yemen-unrest-20110220,0,7365367.story

Libyans vow to protest despite violence from government

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/02/20/libya.protests/index.html?eref=mrss_igoogle_cnn

Libyan Opposition Warns of ‘Bloodbath,’ Calls for Intervention

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-02-19/libyan-opposition-warns-of-massacre-calls-for-intervention.html

Protesters Retake Square in Bahrain While Libya and Yemen Try to Suppress Protests

Saturday 19 February 2011

http://www.truth-out.org/protesters-retake-square-bahrain-while-libya-and-yemen-try-suppress-protests67908

Leaders of Libya and Yemen meet protests with deadly force

As revolt spreads through the Arab world, Libyan President Moammar Kadafi and Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh take brutal steps to retain power.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-libya-yemen-unrest-20110220,0,7365367.story

Libya unrest death toll ‘tops 200’

Dozens of Muslim leaders call for end to civilian deaths after security crackdown on funeral procession of protesters.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/02/20112206386812127.html

In Libyan Protests, Both Sides Escalate Violence

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/02/in-libyan-protests-both-sides-escalate-violence/71484/

200 Reported Slain as Libyan Forces Ratchet Up Violence in East

Libya Blames “Arabs” for Rising Instability

http://news.antiwar.com/2011/02/19/200-reported-slain-as-libyan-forces-ratchet-up-violence-in-east/

Cycle of Suppression Rises in Libya and Elsewhere

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/20/world/middleeast/20mideast-protests.html?_r=1&hp

Cries for help from Benghazi

Resident of Libyan city calls for help, saying hospitals are overwhelmed by number of dead.

http://english.aljazeera.net/video/africa/2011/02/201121917030797417.html

Libyan leader must end spiralling killings

http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/libyan-leader-must-end-spiralling-killings-2011-02-20

Tens of thousands flood Libya streets as death toll reportedly tops 200

http://www.haaretz.com/news/international/tens-of-thousands-flood-libya-streets-as-death-toll-reportedly-tops-200-1.344591

Yemen’s unrest could embolden al-Qaeda – or sideline it amid democratic hopes

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/19/AR2011021903857.html

Saudi Arabia detains founders of new activist party

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/19/us-saudi-arrests-idUSTRE71I2E920110219

Food Riots Threaten Latin America on Surging Commodities in UN Assessment

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-02-16/latin-america-africa-most-at-risk-from-riots-as-food-prices-rise-un-says.html

Rising food prices nearing danger point: World Bank

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/02/19/rising-food-prices-nearing-danger-point-world-bank/

China tries to stamp out ‘Jasmine Revolution’

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/20/AR2011022000323.html

News of Chinese Jasmine Revolution Spreads Online

http://www.wantchinatimes.com/news-subclass-cnt.aspx?id=20110219000148&cid=1101

Robert Fisk: These are secular popular revolts – yet everyone is blaming religion

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-these-are-secular-popular-revolts-ndash-yet-everyone-is-blaming-religion-2220134.html

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Links For the Egyptian/North African Revolution #ChickenRevolution 10.0

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Artists Unite for Egypt

http://iamtahrir.com/

Rage, Rap and Revolution: Inside the Arab Youth Quake

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2049808,00.html#ixzz1EQsjvWnv

Egypt: “We are all Khaled Said”

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/2011/02/110217_outlook_egypt_protests_khaled_said.shtml

Women of the revolution

http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/features/2011/02/2011217134411934738.html

Millions of Egyptian protesters remind military to keep promise

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/02/18/millions-of-egyptian-protesters-remind-military-to-keep-promise/

Tahrir Friday

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mosaaberising/5456533131/sizes/l/

Muslim Brotherhood Speaks Out On Egypt

http://www.npr.org/2011/02/18/133870711/Muslim-Brotherhood-Speaks-Out-On-Egypt

February 19, 2011, 11:21 am

Delirious Joy in Bahrain

http://kristof.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/19/delirious-joy-in-bahrain/

Taking back Bahrain’s ‘Tahrir’

http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/2011/02/2011219201753524228.html

Bahrain Protesters Fill Pearl Square Again After Military Backs Down

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/19/bahrain-protesters-fill-p_n_825494.html#137_snipers-shoot-mourners-in-libya-at-least-15-dead

In Bahrain, the Bullets Fly Feb18

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/19/opinion/19kristof.html?_r=2&hp

Stunned U.S. urges Bahrain to show ‘restraint’ after bloody crackdown

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41638606/ns/world_news-mideast/n_africa/

Bahrain’s king seeks dialogue after another crackdown on protesters

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/18/AR2011021805589.html

Bahrain – 15 Feb 2011, Thousands Take to The Streets in Demonstrations, 15/02/2011

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtH46JQFWCc

‘They didn’t run away. They faced the bullets head-on’

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/they-didnt-run-away-they-faced-the-bullets-headon-2219267.html

Is More at Stake for US in Tiny Bahrain Than in Egypt?

http://www.aolnews.com/2011/02/18/is-more-at-stake-for-us-in-tiny-bahrain-than-in-egypt/?a_dgi=aolshare_facebook

Blood Runs Through the Streets of Bahrain

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/18/opinion/18kristof.html?_r=1&hpw

Bahrain troops ‘fire on crowds’

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12509658

Protesters back in Bahrain centre

Anti-government protesters reoccupy Pearl roundabout after troops and police withdraw from protest site in capital.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/02/201121914336940622.html

Bahrain protesters celebrate as police, soldiers withdraw from Pearl Square

http://www.latimes.com/news/la-fgw-bahrain-square-20110220,0,6973156.story

Deadly Attacks Against Protesters in Bahrain

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/02/deadly-attacks-against-protesters-in-bahrain/100011/

Bahrain’s army deliberately kills peaceful protesters with live rounds automatic weapon http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwnUQcKXmMM&skipcontrinter=1

Violence In Bahrain

http://video.nytimes.com/video/2011/02/17/opinion/1248069645372/violence-in-bahrain.html

Violence grips Bahrain, Libya and Yemen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fh5L2GqEWCY&feature=player_embedded

Yemen unrest builds

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0QrlZs1i3Y

Rival Yemen demonstrators fire in air in Sanaa

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/19/us-yemen-idUSTRE71I17620110219

Libya forces ‘open fire’ at funeral

At least 15 mourners reportedly killed in eastern city of Benghazi, as anti-government protests continue unabated.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/02/2011219811665897.html

Thousands demand reforms in Algeria; 400 arrested

http://www.clarionledger.com/article/20110212/NEWS03/110212011/1079/Stansbury-lauds-Bulldogs-newfound-togetherness/400-arrested-during-Algerian-protests?odyssey=nav|head

Libya Internet Shut Down Amid Protests, Later Restored (UPDATE)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/18/libya-internet-shut-down-_n_825473.html

Libya protests: Gaddafi sends in snipers to silence the dissent

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/8335934/Libya-protests-Gaddafi-sends-in-snipers-to-silence-the-dissent.html

84 Dead In Libya Protests In 3 Days: Human Rights Watch

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/18/84-dead-in-libya-protests_n_825466.html

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard pledges to hold fire

Senior officers in Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have written a letter to their commanding officer demanding assurances that they will not be required to open fire on anti-government demonstrators.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/8331625/Irans-Revolutionary-Guard-pledges-to-hold-fire.html?sms_ss=facebook&at_xt=4d5e05b73ba570c5%2C1

Over 20,000 Protesters Reported as Tiny Djibouti Rallies Against President

Djibouti’s Presidential Dynasty Threatened by Popular Uprising

http://news.antiwar.com/2011/02/18/over-20000-protesters-reported-as-tiny-djibouti-rallies-against-president/

Days of Rage in Libya, Yemen and Bahrain

http://www.juancole.com/2011/02/days-of-rage-in-libya-yemen-and-bahrain.html

Media futurist: Time to replace the Internet

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/02/18/media-futurist-time-to-replace-the-internet/

Al Jazeera says signal jammed, website blocked

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/02/18/al-jazeera-says-signal-jammed-website-blocked/

As Online Communications Stymie Wiretaps, Lawmakers Debate Solutions

Mapping the Arab world

http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2011/02/arab_league_map

The spectre of Sudan’s popular uprisings

http://www.economist.com/blogs/baobab/2011/02/revolutions_sudan?fsrc=scn/fb/wl/bl/sudansuprisings

Twitter network of Arab and Middle East protests – interactive map

Follow the latest tweets on protests around the Arab world and the Middle East from our network of journalists, bloggers and experts

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2011/feb/11/guardian-twitter-arab-protests-interactive

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Links For the Egyptian/North African Revolution #ChickenRevolution 8.0 and 9.0

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Behind Egypt’s revolution: youth and the internet

http://www.globalpost.com/print/5615842

Social networks, social revolution

Youtube, Facebook and Twitter have become the new weapons of mass mobilisation.

http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/empire/2011/02/201121614532116986.html

Unrest Spreads, Some Violently, in Middle East

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/17/world/middleeast/17protest.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha2

Labor unrest hits Egypt’s strategic Suez Canal

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hqWUlqQYLa2bcPoVizMRoDuqQRsw?docId=85db3adcb1e040609ebd2cc2ea6044ed

Conductor’s strike brings railways to a halt

http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/news/conductors-strike-brings-railways-halt

The false anxiety of influence

The revolution in Egypt is a unique historical event, seperate from Iran in 1979 or France in 1789, author says.

http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/02/201121215216318526.html

Egyptians defy call to end strikes

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/02/2011216141815340645.html

The Poetry of Revolt

http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/506/the-poetry-of-revolt

Mona Eltahawy: Women in Egypt

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLkiPt41VQM

Egypt Blogger SandMonkey Unmasked

http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2011/02/egyptian-sandmonkey-blogger-unmasks-himself-in-cairo045.html

A Warning for Egyptian Revolutionaries:

Courtesy of People Power in the Philippines

http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2011/barker150211.html

Clashes rock Bahraini capital

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/02/201121714223324820.html

Bloody crackdown smashes Bahrain protesters

At least four dead, 60 said to be missing and more than 600 reported hurt

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41638606/ns/world_news-mideast/n_africa/

In Bahrain, Protesters Look to Tap Into ‘Regional Momentum’

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/world/jan-june11/mideast2_02-16.html

Bahrain Police Crack Down; 5 Dead and Hundreds Hurt

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/18/world/middleeast/18bahrain.html

Video of deadly Bahrain protests as violence escalates in Manama

Bloody crackdown smashes Bahrain protesters

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41638606/ns/world_news-mideast/n_africa/

Bahrain: Police Attack Sleeping Protesters

http://globalvoicesonline.org/2011/02/17/bahrain-police-attack-sleeping-protesters/

In Bahrain: ‘Grief Is Turning To Anger Very Rapidly’

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/02/17/133832015/in-bahrain-grief-is-turning-to-anger-very-rapidly?sc=fb&cc=fp

Bahrain military patrols streets of Manama after attack on protesters

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-bahrain-unrest-20110217,0,1217723.story

Bahrain protests a worry for US and its fifth fleet

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/17/bahrain-protests-us-fifth-fleet

Libya protests: Activists call for ‘day of anger’

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/mobile/world-africa-12490504?SThisFB

Libya’s regime must now fear its people’s anger

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/feb/17/libya-day-of-anger-protests

Morocco campaign #feb20 #morocco

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0f6FSB7gxQ

Raymond Davis: Pakistan delays ruling on jailed American

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-South-Central/2011/0217/Raymond-Davis-Pakistan-delays-ruling-on-jailed-American

Our G-Zero World Nouriel Roubini

http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/roubini35/English

Egyptian peoples’ power persists: Revolution continues

http://pambazuka.org/en/category/features/70794

Uganda election: Politics and land rights collide in the country’s oil-rich east

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Africa/2011/0217/Uganda-election-Politics-and-land-rights-collide-in-the-country-s-oil-rich-east

U.S. Government Shuts Down 84,000 Websites, ‘By Mistake’

http://torrentfreak.com/u-s-government-shuts-down-84000-websites-by-mistake-110216/

Shy U.S. Intellectual Created Playbook Used in a Revolution

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/17/world/middleeast/17sharp.html?_r=1&pagewanted=2&hp

Social media: Africa’s new musical frontier

http://memeburn.com/2011/02/social-media-africas-new-musical-frontier/

FBI to Announce New Internet-Wiretapping Push

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501465_162-20032695-501465.html

Why is Glenn Beck freaking out over Egypt and a caliphate?

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Elections/Vox-News/2011/0212/Why-is-Glenn-Beck-freaking-out-over-Egypt-and-a-caliphate

Chicken Revolution 9.0

Egypt and Tunisia: The Untold Story

http://wagingnonviolence.org/2011/02/egypt-and-tunisia-the-untold-story/

Behind Egypt’s revolution: youth and the internet

http://www.globalpost.com/print/5615842

The Generation Changing the World

http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,20110228,00.html

Egypt and the global economic order

http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/02/20112148356117884.html

Egypt Detainees

http://video.nytimes.com/video/2011/02/17/world/middleeast/100000000649586/cairo-detainee.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=thab1

Videos From Tahrir: Best Footage from January 25th Revolution

http://www.cairo360.com/article/film/1497/videos-from-tahrir-best-footage-from-january-25th-revolution/

The Great Arab Revolt

http://www.thenation.com/article/158682/great-arab-revolt

Bahraini doctor pleads for help

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJtapAw5HbQ&feature=player_embedded

Live Blog – Bahrain

http://blogs.aljazeera.net/middle-east/2011/02/16/live-blog-bahrain

Bahrain protests: Angry mourners bury clashes victims

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12502820

Libya protests leave 24 dead, says rights group

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-12502657

Kadhafi loyalists threaten to snuff Libya protests

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jfXnQI6wVOf3Lxq5bI2xOM6yuMDQ?docId=CNG.e443ff74bb34dfe611c415a2715a7474.661

Fresh protests hit Iraqi cities

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/02/2011218104510878522.html

Egyptians pack into Cairo square for ‘Friday of Victory’

http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/World/20110218/egypt-friday-110218/

New clashes erupt in Bahrain after marchers rally in support of king

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/17/AR2011021702190.html?hpid=topnews

FBI Pushes for Surveillance Backdoors in Web 2.0 Tools

http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/02/fbi-backdoors/

For more info email soulsurvivors@gmail.com

Links For the Egyptian/North African Revolution #ChickenRevolution 6.0 and 7.0

The Evolution of Revolution is catching everyone off guard …

Chicken Revolution 6.0

Arab League leader says nations shouldn’t fear revolts

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/14/AR2011021406948.html

Mona Eltahawy: Egypt’s Domino Effect

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKeHvZRwlps

Egyptian workers strike as independent unions clash with state-run rival

http://www.tuc.org.uk/international/tuc-19153-f0.cfm

Egypt Youth Make Next Moves?

http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/world/2011/02/14/damon.egypt.auc.cnn.html

Twitter, Translations, and the New Geopolitics

http://www.fastcompany.com/1727582/twitter-translations-usabilaraby

Rich And Gladwell, Wallflowers At History: Tunisia

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2011/02/rich-and-gladwell-wallflowers-at-history-i.html

Senior Egyptian Army Officers Ordered Massacre!

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/02/14/944359/-Senior-Egyptian-Army-Officers-Ordered-Massacre!

Winners and Losers in a Post-Mubarak Arab World

http://www.thejerusalemfund.org/ht/display/ContentDetails/i/27757/pid/2254

Iran protesters clash with police in Egypt aftermath

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/02/14/iran-protesters-clash-with-police-in-egypt-aftermath/

Iran Protests: Hundreds Of Thousands March, Tear Gas Fired

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/14/iran-protests_n_822991.html?ref=fb&src=sp

Deaths reported in Iran protest

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/02/20112158387191255.html

Iranian Lawmakers Call for Death of Opposition Leaders

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/16/world/middleeast/16iran.html?_r=1&hp

The Tahrir Daily

http://paper.li/thereisawayjose/1297269378/~list?topic=Politics

Chicken Revolution 7.0

Egypt labor not resting after Mubarak’s ouster

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11804.shtml

Did You Know There Was a Pop-Up Kindergarten in Tahrir Square?

http://www.good.is/post/a-moving-letter-from-egypt-about-the-role-of-children-in-tahrir-square

“There is a Pre-History to this Revolt”: As Egypt’s Military Bans Labor Strikes, Mona El-Ghobashy Examines How Egyptian Labor and Social Movements Laid the Foundation for Revolution

http://www.democracynow.org/2011/2/14/there_is_a_pre_history_to

Egyptian army hijacking revolution, activists fear

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/15/egyptian-army-hijacking-revolution-fear

Egypt Leaders Found ‘Off’ Switch for Internet

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/16/technology/16internet.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&hp

Revolutionary Residue: Egypt’s Political Prisoners

http://pubrecord.org/world/8846/revolutionary-residue-egypts/

Intent to Shame: The Rape of Lara Logan US Reporter Raped

http://www.politicususa.com/en/lara-logan-rape

The toxic residue of colonialism

The overt age of grand empires gave way to the age of covert imperial hegemony, but now the edifice is crumbling.

http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/02/2011213201140768988.html

Egyptian writer, scholar and activist Nawal El Saadawi

http://www.npr.org/2011/02/12/133717048/For-Egyptian-Activist-A-Dream-Finally-Realized

The birth of a new EGYPT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gLv80p0LnI

Bahrain protests prompt global concerns

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12471243

Horrifying Glimpse at Police Violence in Bahrain

http://blog.amnestyusa.org/middle-east/horrifying-glimpse-at-police-violence-in-bahrain/

Bahrain Takes the Stage With a Raucous Protest

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/16/world/middleeast/16bahrain.html?sudsredirect=true

U.S. Follows Two Paths on Unrest in Iran and Bahrain

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/16/world/middleeast/16diplomacy.html?_r=1

25 Bahman and the Green Revival

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/tehranbureau/2011/02/25-bahman-and-the-green-revival.html

Middle East nations scramble to contain unrest

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-arab-protests-20110214,0,1569548.story

What Is Happening in Egypt

http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2011/amin150211.html

Violent protests break out in Libya

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/02/20112167051422444.html

President Obama on Egypt: “It was the moral force of non-violence”

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/02/11/942863/-President-Obama-on-Egypt:-It-was-the-moral-force-of-non-violence

U.S. State Department starts Farsi Twitter feed

http://www.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/02/14/state.department.twitter/index.html?hpt=T2

Bahrain

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2011/02/campbell-bahrain.html

Deaths heighten Bahrain tension

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/02/201121571645551445.html

Bahrain square becomes new center for Arab anger

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110215/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_bahrain_protests

Middle East Protests: Demonstrations Sweep Iran, Bahrain, Yemen And Algeria

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/15/middle-east-protests-iran-bahrain-yemen-algeria_n_823503.html#240514

Libyan Citizens take to the streets of Benghazi 2/15/2011

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIw_2mSVUsY

Mubarak Resigns: From Cairo To Kampala–Africans Must Seize Their Destiny

http://www.blackstarnews.com/news/135/ARTICLE/7117/2011-02-11.html

West Africa Rising: Could rising food prices spark Egypt-style revolt in Africa?

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Africa/Africa-Monitor/2011/0215/West-Africa-Rising-Could-rising-food-prices-spark-Egypt-style-revolt-in-Africa?cmpid=addthis_facebook&sms_ss=facebook&at_xt=4d5afb234f0cda65%2C0

Tunisia, Egypt, Miami: The Importance of Internet Choke Points

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/01/tunisia-egypt-miami-the-importance-of-internet-choke-points/70415/

Wired and Shrewd, Young Egyptians Guide Revolt

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/10/world/middleeast/10youth.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=wired,%20educated%20and%20shrewd,%20young%20egyptians%20guide%20revolt&st=cse

Egyptian Activists’ Action Plan: Translated

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/01/egyptian-activists-action-plan-translated/70388/

The Secret Rally That Sparked an Uprising

Cairo Protest Organizers Describe Ruses Used to Gain Foothold Against Police; the Candy-Store Meet That Wasn’t on Facebook

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704132204576135882356532702.html?mod=wsj_share_facebook

Clinton: Internet Barriers Have ‘Moral, Political and Economic’ Costs

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2011/02/clinton-on-internet.html

Just How Open Is Your Internet? [INFOGRAPHICS]

http://mashable.com/2011/02/15/open-internet-infographic/

The Tunisian Revolution: Views from Iran

http://montages.blogspot.com/2011/01/tunisian-revolution-views-from-iran_3111.html

Email soulsurvivors@gmail.com for any more info …

Links for the Egyptian Revolution

Chicken Revolution 1.0

The Press keeps on calling this a “Middle Eastern Uprising” and I’m saying it’s just the tip of “(North) African Revolution” … Neoliberalism will finally be challenged by Asymmetrical CyberYouth all across the Planet of Slums (Globally) … They will be driven by Indigenous Mythology, Religion and Evolutionary Culture …

Wired and Shrewd, Young Egyptians Guide Revolt

“In the process many have formed some unusual bonds that reflect the singularly nonideological character of the Egyptian youth revolt, which encompasses liberals, socialists and members of the Muslim Brotherhood.” ~ IE new Cultural Values have usurped Ideological Puritanism  (JK) …

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/10/world/middleeast/10youth.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper

6 April Movement- حركة 6 ابريل

http://6aprilmove.blogspot.com/

People & Power

Egypt: Seeds of change

Cyber-guerrillas within the heart of the neo-liberal order ~ armed with cutting edge real-time technology and the power of mythology establish assymetrical challenges to the hegemonic forces of the Egyptian State …

People & Power reveals the story behind the unprecedented political protests in Egypt.

http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/peopleandpower/2011/02/201128145549829916.html

“The Evolution will be Socialized”

From the actions of the Egyptian government to the policies of Facebook, the monopolies of central banks to the corporatization of the Internet, we are witnessing the potential of a peer-to-peer networking become overshadowed by the hierarchies of the status quo. It’s time for us to gather and see what is still possible on the net, and what, if anything, can be built to replace it.

http://www.shareable.net/blog/the-evolution-will-be-socialized

Egypt Youths Play New Role: Driving a Revolt

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/27/world/middleeast/27opposition.html?scp=2&sq=January+27%2C+2011+egpty&st=cse

The youth of Tahrir Square

http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/features/2011/02/201129214957928702.html

With Twitter and Facebook Blocked in Egypt, Protesters Turn to Proxies | Movements.org –

http://www.movements.org/blog/entry/with-twitter-blocked-in-egypt-protesters-turn-to-proxies/

Old tech aids Egyptian protests

Old technology finds role in Egyptian protests

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12322948

How Users in Egypt Are Bypassing Twitter & Facebook Blocks

http://mashable.com/2011/01/27/bypass-twitter-facebook-block-egypt/

Egypt protest leaflets distributed in Cairo give blueprint for mass action | World news | The Guardian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jan/27/egypt-protest-leaflets-mass-action

» Egypt’s Internet Shutdown Can’t Stop Mass Protests

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/01/egypts-internet-shutdown-cant-stop-mass-protests/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+(Wired%3A+Index+3+(Top+Stories+2))

Egyptians Connecting To The Internet Via Modem, Fax, Ham Radio

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/29/egyptians-connecting-to-t_n_815852.html#s232447&title=Benjamin_Krueger

How Was Egypt’s Internet Access Shut Off?: Scientific American

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=egypt-internet-mubarak

How Egypt Turned Off the Internet

http://gizmodo.com/#!5746121/how-egypt-turned-off-the-internet

Tunisia, Egypt, Miami: The Importance of Internet Choke Points – Andrew Blum – Technology – The Atlantic

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/01/tunisia-egypt-miami-the-importance-of-internet-choke-points/70415/

How to Foil a Nationwide Internet Shutdown

http://lifehacker.com/#!5746046/how-to-foil-a-nationwide-internet-shutdown

Inside the State Department’s Arab Twitter diplomacy

http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/01/28/inside_the_state_department_s_arab_twitter_diplomacy

Anonymous Hackers Launch Wikileaks for Normal People [Hackers]

http://valleywag.gawker.com/#!5758753/anonymous-hackers-launch-wikileaks-for-normal-people

CNN – RUSHKOFF: Internet is easy prey for governments

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/02/05/rushkoff.egypt.internet/index.html

Why’d a Battle-Ready Mubarak Turn Egypt’s Internet Back On? | techPresident

http://techpresident.com/blog-entry/whyd-battle-ready-mubarak-turn-egypts-internet-back

Hackers Will Create Mesh Network To Bring Egypt Back Online | Motherboard

http://motherboard.tv/2011/2/2/hackers-will-create-mesh-network-to-bring-egypt-back-online–2

Google launches Twitter workaround for Egypt

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/01/us-egypt-protest-google-idUSTRE71005F20110201?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&rpc=22&sp=true

New Service Allows Egyptian Voices to Be Heard

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/02/world/middleeast/02twitter.html?sudsredirect=true

Egyptian Actions Highlight Dangers in U.S. Cybersecurity Proposals

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/01/egyptian-actions-highlight-dangers-cybersecurity

Egypt Flips Internet Kill Switch, Is the U.S. Next? – by PC Magazine

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2376905,00.asp

Behind (and beyond) Egypt’s Internet shutdown

http://www.smartplanet.com/technology/blog/thinking-tech/behind-and-beyond-egypts-internet-shutdown/6155/

Egypt’s Facebook Rebel

http://bltwy.msnbc.msn.com/politics/egypts-facebook-rebel-1672898.story

Meet Asma Mahfouz and the vlog that started a revolution

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgjIgMdsEuk

Egyptinternetstory

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyFbdZXH5gs

Twenty-eight hours in Tahrir

Mark LeVine describes the sense of exhilaration among Egyptians at Cairo’s Tahrir Square.

http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/02/2011211182045814921.html

Tahrir: Between the festive and the political

http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/news/tahrir-between-festive-and-political

The Growing Importance of Online Awareness Networks

http://www.cpsrenewal.ca/2011/02/growing-importance-of-online-awareness.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+cpsrenewal+(Canadian+Public+Service+Renewal)&utm_content=Twitter

Egyptian president steps down amidst groundbreaking digital revolution

http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/social.media/02/11/egyptian.president.digital.mashable/

World Leaders Cheer but Remain Wary (of Social Networking)

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/12/world/middleeast/12global.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&hpw&adxnnlx=1297512550-oN9ByrhENRTQBFS6%2FJ7zAg

Should spies spend more time on Twitter?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110208/tc_nm/us_technology_protest_spies

Knocking over entire web systems

http://www.economist.com/blogs/multimedia/2011/02/internet_kill_switch_debate?fsrc=scn%2Ffb%2Fwl%2Fau%2Fknockingoverwebsystems

Facebook and YouTube Fuel the Egyptian Protests

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/06/world/middleeast/06face.html?src=twrhp

A Question of Arab Unity – Disillusion – 03 Mar 08 – Pt.1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnb-NlJ3_0Q

The Disruptiveness of Social Media – Update

http://techcocktail.com/the-disruptiveness-of-social-media-update-2011-02?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TechCocktail+(Tech+Cocktail)&utm_content=FaceBook

Victory for Egypt’s Leaderless Revolution

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-hais-and-morley-winograd/victory-for-egypts-leader_b_822228.html

Plans For Egypt’s Transition Do Not Speak to Intensifying Financial Crisis

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/danny-schechter/plans-for-egypts-transiti_b_819477.html

Equal Rights Takes to the Barricades

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/02/world/middleeast/02iht-letter02.html?ref=global-home

Are Soccer Fans the Unsung Heroes of Egypt’s Uprising?

http://gawker.com/#!5746811/are-soccer-fans-the-unsung-heroes-of-egypts-uprising

4 Reasons Why Egypt’s Revolution Is Not Islamic

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/haroon-moghul/4-reasons-why-egypts-revo_b_815848.html

Egypt: An idea whose time has come

http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/02/20112714401412146.html

For Egypt, This Is the Miracle of Tahrir Square

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/02/10-8

The People of Egypt Have Done It! They Have Driven Mubarak Out!

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/02/11-8

The Woman Who’s Explaining Egypt To The West

http://jezebel.com/#!5747762/the-woman-whos-explaining-egypt-to-the-west

Egypt’s popular revolution will change the world

In discovering their power to determine their future, north Africa’s protesters have already opened a new age in world history

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/feb/09/egypt-north-africa-revolution?INTCMP=SRCH

For Egypt, this is the miracle of Tahrir Square

http://www.guardian.co.uk/global/2011/feb/10/egypt-miracle-tahrir-square

Comrades and Brothers

http://www.merip.org/mer/mer242/hamalawy.html

Egypt: A Striking Success & An Uncertain Future

http://zeitgeistpolitics.wordpress.com/2011/02/12/egypt-striking-success-uncertain-future/

The resurrection of pan-Arabism

http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/02/201121115231647934.html

Egypt: Seeds of change

http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/peopleandpower/2011/02/201128145549829916.html

Arab Leaders, Facing Calls for Reform, Consider Next Move

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/12/world/middleeast/12arabs.html?adxnnl=1&partner=rss&emc=rss&adxnnlx=1297519404-N/JITzz8qP8Nh0y31FI+ow

Egypt Erupts in Jubilation as Mubarak Steps Down

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/12/world/middleeast/12egypt.html?_r=2&sudsredirect=true

FRONTLINE Egypt

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/2011/02/mubarak-falls.html

WikiLeaks Backers `Anonymous’ to Be Probed by U.S. Grand Jury

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-02-08/wikileaks-supporters-face-hunt-for-leaders-in-grand-jury-probe.html

Bread and Butter Revolution: Egypt’s Workers Mobilize for a New Future

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/02/11-7

The Muslim Brotherhood’s Strategy in Egypt

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/02/the-muslim-brotherhoods-strategy-in-egypt/71040/

Political Islam is here to stay — US must accept and adjust

http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Opinion/2011/0209/Political-Islam-is-here-to-stay-US-must-accept-and-adjust

Military falls out with protesters over Egypt’s path to democracy

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/12/egypt-military-leaders-fall-out-protesters

Egyptian Military: Country Will Keep Current Leadership, Adhere to Treaties

http://www.truth-out.org/egyptian-military-country-will-keep-current-leadership-adhere-treaties67684

Why the Army Won’t Shoot Protesters

http://www.truth-out.org/why-army-wont-shoot-protesters67381

Egypt uprising is turning point for region and U.S. » peoplesworld

http://www.peoplesworld.org/egypt-uprising-is-turning-point-for-region-and-u-s/

How food prices can fuel revolutions like Egypt’s

http://www.grist.org/article/2011-01-31-how-food-prices-can-fuel-revolutions-like-egypts

Building The Great Pyramid – BBC 1/6

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bK0HP1DatRU

The Muslim Brotherhood’s ‘intellectual godfather’

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/11/AR2011021106019_2.html

Young Voices of the North African Revolution:

“There is a rising conscience in the region, so why not go for it?” … “It is about time we show what we’re really made of. Our brothers in Tunisia did it and so did our brothers in Egypt. It is about time for us.” ~ Young Sudanese Protesters, (Source: NY Times)

Algerian protesters clash with police as Egypt fervour spreads

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/12/algerian-protesters-clash-police-egypt

Fresh clashes in Yemen over support for government

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/meast/02/12/yemen.protests/index.html?hpt=T2

Thousands rally in Yemen’s capital

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/02/201121211858966496.html

Yemen: Pro-Government Forces Attack Demonstrators

http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2011/02/11/yemen-pro-government-forces-attack-demonstrators

Africa reacts to the fall of Mubarak

http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/02/11/egypts_in_africa_too?sms_ss=facebook&at_xt=4d55836c90e9d8cf%2C0

Hunger and food security: Is Africa selling the farm?

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Global-Issues/2011/0206/Hunger-and-food-security-Is-Africa-selling-the-farm

Pambazuka – Tunisia’s revolution: Self-organisation for self-emancipation

http://pambazuka.org/en/category/features/70472

Sudan’s protests triggered by long-term economic, political frustrations

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Africa/Africa-Monitor/2011/0201/Sudan-s-protests-triggered-by-long-term-economic-political-frustrations?cmpid=addthis_facebook&sms_ss=facebook&at_xt=4d49e2ac37a016ef%2C0

A more complicated discussion we all should begin to have is on the nature of American Empire and how it operates – how it constrains and contradicts what should be natural diplomatic exchanges and gestures. We need to review the nature and limits of Executive power, Electoral Power and how we as Americans should begin to spark our own movement for a more genuine Democracy.

Obama on Mubarak Resignation: ‘Egypt Will Never Be the Same’

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryW_zDi4994

When Democracy Weakens

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/12/opinion/12herbert.html?hp

Could a U.S. government crackdown take America off the internet?

http://io9.com/#!5746338/could-a-us-government-crackdown-take-america-off-the-internet

Mubarak steps down: Obama’s a big reason why

http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Opinion/2011/0211/Mubarak-steps-down-Obama-s-a-big-reason-why

Timeline: US indecision on Egypt

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/02/20112108715425794.html

Mubarak Steps Down and Fox News Calls the American People Marxist

http://www.politicususa.com/en/mubarak-fox-america-marxist

The Lobbyists Watching Egypt’s Back

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_07/b4215036331845.htm

Washington’s Secret History with the Muslim Brotherhood

http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2011/feb/05/washingtons-secret-history-muslim-brotherhood/

Lobbyists Help Egyptian Officials Get Aid, Support From U.S.

http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=54362

Meet the Two American Companies Helping Egypt Restrict Its People

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/561Ngh/www.good.is/post/meet-the-two-american-companies-helping-egypt-restrict-its-people/

The Middle East’s Pox Americana

http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/02/american-role-in-egypt

Chomsky: Why the Mideast Turmoil Is a Direct Threat to the American Empire

http://www.alternet.org/story/149786/chomsky:_why_the_mideast_turmoil_is_a_direct_threat_to_the_american_empire

The Great Unravelling: Tunisia, Egypt and the Protracted Collapse of the American Empire

http://crisisofcivilization.com/2011/02/01/the-great-unravelling-tunisia-egypt-and-the-protracted-collapse-of-the-american-empire/

10 Reasons Americans Should Care About the Egyptian Revolution

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/02/10/10_reasons_americans_should_care_about_the_egyptian_revolution

Israelis divided on how to respond to Egypt turmoil

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-egypt-israel-faultlines-20110211,0,403589.story?track=rss

IMF calls for dollar alternative

http://money.cnn.com/2011/02/10/markets/dollar/index.htm?hpt=T2

The Internet Strikes Back: Tell Congress to Stand Up for Net Neutrality

http://www.publicknowledge.org/internet-strikes-back-tell-congress-stand-net-neut

CIA: Frank G. Wisner arrived in Cairo [Voltaire]

http://www.voltairenet.org/article168337.html

WikiLeaks: Egyptian torturers trained by FBI

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks/8314475/WikiLeaks-Egyptian-torturers-trained-by-FBI.html

ISS – U.S. defense contractors with the most at stake in Egypt

http://www.southernstudies.org/2011/02/us-defense-contractors-with-the-most-at-stake-in-egypt.html

CNN: Getting to the truth in Egypt

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-u3TScsZsw

» Internet ‘Kill Switch’ Legislation Back in Play

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/01/kill-switch-legislation/

WikiLeaks cables: Saudi Arabia cannot pump enough oil to keep a lid on prices | Business | The Guard

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/feb/08/saudi-oil-reserves-overstated-wikileaks

» Anonymous Hacks Security Firm Investigating It and Releases E-mail

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/02/anonymous-hacks-hbgary/

ONES + ZEROS: 02/07/2011

http://motherboard.tv/2011/2/8/ones-zeros-the-wrath-of-anonymous–2

‘Anonymous’ Takes Down Security Firm That Threatened to Expose its Members – by PC Magazine

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2379587,00.asp

Anonymous Hackers Pay Back FBI Snitch with 50,000 Leaked Emails

http://gawker.com/#!5753570/anonymous-hackers-pay-back-fbi-snitch-with-50000-leaked-emails

Julian Assange: ‘How do you attack an organisation? You attack its leadership’ | Media | The Observe

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jan/30/julian-assange-interview

WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange, Pt. 1 – 60 Minutes – CBS News

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7300034n&tag=related%3Bphotovideo

EFF Uncovers Widespread FBI Intelligence Violations

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/01/eff-releases-report-detailing-fbi-intelligence

A Campaign to Smear WikiLeaks Supporters – Truthdig

http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/a_campaign_to_smear_wikileaks_supporters_20110212/

Chicken Revolution 2.0

How Twitter has become the people’s voice on the eve of its fifth birthday

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/feb/13/twitter-peoples-voice-fifth-birthday

From Stephen Fry’s thoughts to protests in Egypt and Tunisia, the micro-blogging site has changed the way we communicate. But will it become the voice of revolution or another social media cash cow?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/feb/13/twitter-peoples-voice-fifth-birthday

My Love, Egypt

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/scott-macleod/my-love-egypt_b_822449.html

Egypt: The camp that toppled a president

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-12434787

The tyrant has gone. Now the real struggle begins for Egypt

The protesters have stripped Mubarak and his foreign backers of their authority. But the roots of despotism run deep

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/feb/12/mubarak-egypt-roots-of-despotism

New Yorkers celebrate Egypt revolution

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/164977.html

A Perfect End to a Perfect Revolution: Massive Volunteer Clean-Up at Tahrir Square

http://www.ahmedrehab.com/blog/2011/02/a-perfect-end-to-a-perfect-revolution-massive-volunteer-clean-up-at-tahrir-square/

Protesters Are Awesome: Look at This Beautiful Video of Today’s “Day of Cleaning” in Egypt

http://www.good.is/post/protesters-are-awesome-look-at-this-beautiful-video-of-today-s-day-of-cleaning-in-egypt/

Egypt shows ‘clash of civilizations’ was a myth

http://www.islamophobiatoday.com/2011/02/12/egypt-shows-‘clash-of-civilizations’-was-a-myth/

Egypt Celebrations: PHOTOS Following Mubarak Resignation

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/11/egypt-celebrations-photos_n_821992.html?ref=fb&src=sp#238712

World Celebrates with Egypt (Feb 11-12)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-D-LFrb_III

Egypt: Hosni Mubarak used last 18 days in power to secure his fortune

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/egypt/8320912/Egypt-Hosni-Mubarak-used-last-18-days-in-power-to-secure-his-fortune.html

To Mohammad El-Sayed Said

Al Jazeera’s senior political analyst pays tribute to the community organisers who made Egypt’s revolution possible.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/02/2011212152337359115.html

Popular anger boils over in Iraq

Further protests in Algeria, Tunisia and Yemen

http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m74899&hd&size=1&l=e&fb=1

Unrest in Algeria Put Down by Police

http://www.truth-out.org/unrest-algeria-put-down-police67691

Algeria Internet Not Shut Down, According To Renesys Analysis

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/12/algeria-internet-not-shut_n_822473.html

Algeria A Timeline of Discontent

http://www.vuvox.com/collage/detail/0355abf445

Protests in Algeria and Yemen

Scuffles have broken out at pro-democracy rallies in Algeria and Yemen following the fall of Hosni Mubarak in Egypt.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/algeria/8320464/Protests-in-Algeria-and-Yemen.html

After Tunisia, a rise of revolt in Algeria?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weUSmB-bGUM

Iran Green Movement

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/tehranbureau/2011/02/wave-of-support-for-demonstrations-on-february-14.html

Thousands March in Anti-Govt Protest in Baghdad

Lawyers Union Organizes Call to Sack Judges, Investigate Secret Prisons

http://news.antiwar.com/2011/02/10/thousands-march-in-anti-govt-protest-in-baghdad/

White House Reporters Send Terse Letter To Gibbs Over Press Shop’s Handling Of Egypt

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/02/white-house-egypt-gibbs_n_817515.html

Chicken Revolution3.0

People & Power – Egypt: Seeds of change

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrNz0dZgqN8

The Facebook Freedom Fighter

Wael Ghonim’s day job was at Google. But at night he was organizing a revolution.

http://www.newsweek.com/2011/02/13/the-facebook-freedom-fighter.html#comments

The Secret Rally That Sparked an Uprising

Cairo Protest Organizers Describe Ruses Used to Gain Foothold Against Police; the Candy-Store Meet That Wasn’t on Facebook

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704132204576135882356532702.html

Egyptian Activists Inspired by Forgotten Martin Luther King Comic

http://www.comicsalliance.com/2011/02/11/martin-luther-king-comic-egypt/

Martin Luther King Jr. comic book distributed in Tahrir Square

http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2011/02/11/martin-luther-king-jr-comic-book-distributed-in-tahrir-square/

Social Media in North Africa

http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/13/the-end-of-history-part-ii/

Wael Ghonim 60 Minutes

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7346812n

The Dead and Martyred

http://1000memories.com/egypt

Egypt: First the government, next the arts?

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-egypt-arts-20110214,0,7859859.story

Trade unions: the revolutionary social network at play in Egypt and Tunisia

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/feb/10/trade-unions-egypt-tunisia

Egypt revolution: With a military junta in charge, now the politics start

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2011/0213/Egypt-revolution-With-a-military-junta-in-charge-now-the-politics-start?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+feeds%2Fcsm+(Christian+Science+Monitor+|+All+Stories)

A Guide to Reading the Egyptian Uprising in its first week

http://angryarab.blogspot.com/2011/02/guide-to-reading-egyptian-uprising-in.html

Mona Eltahawy on ABC’s This Week

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keEdiH7vQ0g&feature=player_embedded#at=173

Obama Team Missed Egypt Signals

http://wallwritings.wordpress.com/2011/02/13/obama-team-missed-egypt-signals/

Egypt army struggles to clear Tahrir Square protesters

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12442270

Egypt’s Military Dissolves Parliament; Calls for Vote

http://www.truth-out.org/egypts-military-dissolves-parliament-calls-vote67698

A Free Egypt Means Freedom From America

http://blackagendareport.com/content/free-egypt-means-freedom-america

Army and protesters disagree over Egypt’s path to democracy

Activists reject army appeal to leave Tahrir Square as new leadership resists pressure to hand power to civilian administration

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/12/egypt-military-leaders-fall-out-protesters

Dual Uprisings Show Potent New Threats to Arab States

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/14/world/middleeast/14egypt-tunisia-protests.html?_r=1

On “Leaderless Revolutions” and the Fall of Mubarak

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/02/11-11

An Egyptian Revolution? It’s Still Too Soon to Say

http://www.truth-out.org/an-egyptian-revolution-its-still-too-soon-say67714

The revolution continues after Mubarak’s fall

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11799.shtml

Egypt’s New Military Rulers To Ban Unions, Strikes

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/02/13-1

Egypt rebellion spreads to sprawling state economy

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/13/us-egypt-strikes-idUSTRE71C23120110213

Egypt revolution: With a military junta in charge, now the politics start

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2011/0213/Egypt-revolution-With-a-military-junta-in-charge-now-the-politics-start?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+feeds%2Fcsm+(Christian+Science+Monitor+|+All+Stories)

Mideast Unrest Spreads

Protests Target Iran, Bahrain, Libya; Egypt Dissolves Parliament, Sets Elections

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704657104576141701347446530.html?mod=e2tw

Yesterday Egypt, today Algeria

This was the slogan of the brave protesters in Algiers on Saturday, making the first breach in Algeria’s wall of fear

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/feb/12/algeria-egypt

Five Arab Countries That the “Jasmine Revolution” May Spread to Next

http://www.truth-out.org/five-arab-countries-that-jasmine-revolution-may-spread-next67695

Algeria protesters push for change

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/02/201121235130627461.html

Chicken revolution 4.0

Egyptian protesters slam military rule

http://edition.presstv.ir/detail/165074.html

Egypt’s revolution has just begun

http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/02/2011213134458448460.html

Chicken Revolution 5.0

On “Leaderless Revolutions” and the Fall of Mubarak

by David Porter

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/02/11-11

Egypt revolution: With a military junta in charge, now the politics start

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2011/0213/Egypt-revolution-With-a-military-junta-in-charge-now-the-politics-start?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+feeds%2Fcsm+(Christian+Science+Monitor+|+All+Stories)

Trade unions: the revolutionary social network at play in Egypt and Tunisia

The media have focused on Facebook and Twitter, but the pro-democracy movements have flourished thanks to unions

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/feb/10/trade-unions-egypt-tunisia

Egypt protests continue in the factories

Egypt’s striking workers won’t entrust the transition to democracy to the generals who were the backbone of the dictatorship

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/feb/14/egypt-protests-democracy-generals

Region in revolt

Labor Activists Rejoice in Egypt, but Will It Last?

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/15/world/middleeast/15iht-labor15.html?emc=tnt&tntemail0=y

Egypt public sector staff on strike

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5iY5fF_UGzDDhKN-dpXWjWAP4bIFw?docId=N0727161297680497432A

Strikes spread after Egypt uprising, worrying army

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/top/all/7427016.html

Egypt’s New Military Rulers To Ban Unions, Strikes

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/02/13-1

Army takes over in Egypt and orders ban on trade union strikes after old regime deposed

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1356715/Egypt-protests-Army-takes-orders-ban-trade-union-strikes.html#ixzz1E1om7Fb0

Egypt rebellion spreads to sprawling state economy

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/13/us-egypt-strikes-idUSTRE71C23120110213

Facebook Officials Keep Quiet on Its Role in Revolts

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/15/business/media/15facebook.html?_r=2&hp

A Tunisian-Egyptian Link That Shook Arab History

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/14/world/middleeast/14egypt-tunisia-protests.html

Spreading Revolution

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/world/middleeast/2011-spreading-revolutions.html#intro

The Secret Rally That Sparked an Uprising

Cairo Protest Organizers Describe Ruses Used to Gain Foothold Against Police; the Candy-Store Meet That Wasn’t on Facebook

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704132204576135882356532702.html

Egypt’s revolution has just begun

http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/02/2011213134458448460.html

Egypt: First the government, next the arts?

With Hosni Mubarak’s repressive regime gone, filmmakers, musicians and others hope freedom of expression will thrive. Some already have crossed old boundaries.

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-egypt-arts-20110214,0,7859859.story

Egypt Martyrs

http://1000memories.com/egypt

The Facebook Freedom Fighter

Wael Ghonim’s day job was at Google. But at night he was organizing a revolution.

http://www.newsweek.com/2011/02/13/the-facebook-freedom-fighter.html#comments

Sout Al Horeya صوت الحريه Amir Eid – Hany Adel – Hawary On Guitar & Sherif On Keyboards

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fgw_zfLLvh8

What makes a revolution succeed?

While the aspirations are different, Egyptians could take five lessons from Iran’s 1979 revolt.

http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/02/201121393446561799.html

Exactly what role did social media play in the Egyptian revolution?

http://socialmediatoday.com/simonmainwaring/269957/exactly-what-role-did-social-media-play-egyptian-revolution

The Reality of Revolution

Without economic justice, democratic dreams in the Middle East can never truly be fulfilled.

http://www.tnr.com/article/against-the-current/83402/egypt-tunisia-democracy-twitter-economy

Egypt revolution: Protesters vow to keep pressure on military

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2011/0214/Egypt-revolution-Protesters-vow-to-keep-pressure-on-military

Arab women lead the charge for political change

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11802.shtml

Egypt: The Distance Between Enthusiasm and Reality

http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/20110213-egypt-distance-between-enthusiasm-and-reality

Yesterday Egypt, today Algeria

This was the slogan of the brave protesters in Algiers on Saturday, making the first breach in Algeria’s wall of fear

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/feb/12/algeria-egypt

Algeria ‘to lift emergency laws’

Foreign minister says 19-year-old emergency will end “within days” amid calls for more protests against government.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/02/20112148175219570.html

Bahrain Uprising: Footage of Police Brutality and Live Firing at Protesters

http://www.philipbrennan.net/2011/02/14/bahrain-uprising-footage-of-police-brutality-and-live-firing-at-protesters/

As Egypt uprising inspires Middle East, Iran sees biggest protests in a year

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/14/AR2011021405301.html?hpid=topnews

Thousands of Yemeni protesters urge veteran leader Saleh to quit

http://www.nation.co.ke/News/world/-/1068/1107498/-/4hldmxz/-/

Police disperse Iranian protesters with tear gas

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110214/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iran_opposition

Egypt’s impact: Unrest sweeps the Middle East

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110214/ts_yblog_thelookout/egypts-impact-unrest-sweeps-the-middle-east

Obama mum on crackdown in Yemen

http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/02/14/protests_yemen

Assange: WikiLeaks helped spark Tunisia, Egypt revolutions

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/02/14/assange-wikileaks-helped-spark-tunisia-egypt-revolutions/

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3 more days before 01. 01. 11

2:18 am Wed. 12. 29. 10 …

Say you will sing your songs

Forever more …

Gonna be some sweet sounds

Coming down on the nightshift

I bet you’re singing proud

Oh I bet you’ll pull a crowd

Gonna be a long night

It’s gonna be all right

On the nightshift

Oh you found another home

I know you’re not alone

On the nightshift

~ Commodores “Nightshift” …

Music opens our heart to memories buried deep within the mind …

“I cannot help but to feel the universe … the past, future and present.”

4:54 am Wed. 12. 29. 10 …

So I’m supposed to be going to bed. I’m supposed to be sleeping. I’m supposed to be doing a lot of things. There are so many obligations delayed with a good share of my own burdens, but at this moment I am writing. I am inspired by a constellation of events. As Buddha, Jesus or Malcolm X once said, just “make it plain.”

Despite my motions the Sun will still rise.

One more sip of ale.

“Imagine our primordial ancestors charting the heavens and stars leading the trail for us to find our way home. They must have loved us so.”

Every 2,150 years a different astrological constellation falls in alignment on the sunrise of the Spring Equinox. With the passing of some 25,765 years all 12 signs of the astrological Zodiac will have completed this particular celestial precession of the equinoxes.

This rather obscure scientific process is a lineage to my human past. There are people who I’d like to call my ancestors who studiously and bravely guarded this process from generation to generation orally and symbolically, through myth and ritual culture. I imagine the kind of cultural fortitude it must have required. Unshakeable faith in the dimension of mystery and potentiality, an undying hope that tomorrow will come and a fiery love to illuminate the darkness of the world.

In my minds eye the sky opens up. There are so many stars in the expansive night … like atomized drops of water in all the oceans and all the grains of sand on the shores. These stars were also mapped by force of will, hope and love ages ago by our ancestors as a guide for their progeny and it is in the least an assuring reason for hope in our time. It is enough of an anchor in troubled times, to know that we do not have to be deluged with pessimism and misery. They left no doubt in my mind of my place in the universe, and my relationship to their insight.

“Though separated by time and space we are connected by a legacy of love.”

3:14 am Wed. 12. 29. 10 …

I’ve just arrived for Korean styled Pho. It’s open 24 hours and I love having the whole restaurant to myself. It makes me feel special by default. “The Nightshift” by the Commodores is on repeat in my head. The ajushi on duty has MJ on heavy rotation with the latest fare of K-Pop music. Eating alone can become an act of seditious meditation.

1:00 pm Sun.  12. 26. 10 …

Laundry was backed up for weeks. I’m heading to the local Laundromat … the snow is falling pretty steady. Thundersnow NYC has begun.

6:16 am Wed. 12. 29. 10 …

The sun is beginning to peak in a slow orange radiating glow. I feel that the night has run its course.

Email John Kim: soulsurvivors@gmail.com

“Childhood Cartoon Faces”: An Exercise of Myth and Memory

“Childhood Cartoon Faces”: An Exercise of Myth and Memory

By John Kim

For the last several weeks “Childhood Cartoon Faces” encouraged Facebook denizens to combat violence against children by asking them to change their profile picture to a favorite cartoon character. The campaign is very popular even at a cursory glance with a lot of Facebook profiles having heeded the call. “Childhood Cartoon Faces” has for the moment become the top news on the Internet.

The campaign’s detractors have levied that this project is only a symbolic gesture that does not move people towards action – and that is a fair critique. While I can’t say it is going to make an immediate quantitative impact – I do believe this campaign will raise awareness and that is the first step towards building or reinforcing any movement.

In my opinion the campaign is actually effective in its simplicity and may have longer-term effects than realized. If we can all learn an important lesson from this seemingly simple activity it is that we can never underestimate the power of historical memory rooted in mythology.

The mission of the “Campaign to End Violence Against Children” Facebook page proclaims, “Change your Facebook profile picture to a cartoon from your childhood and invite your friends to do the same. Until Monday [Dec. 6], there should be no human faces on Facebook but an invasion of memories.”

Cartoons: “An Invasion of Memories”

Psychologically speaking, “memory is an organism’s ability to store, retain, and recall information and experiences.” As humans we learn first and foremost through stories and in our capitalist society much of children’s mythologies are consumed through the animated form of cartoons, though they run the spectrum of genre narratives. Through the power of iconic representation, cartoons have a profound transformative effect on our experiential (historical) memory and activity as children.

Scott McCloud, author of “Understanding Comics” explains, “The cartoon is a vacuum into which our identity and awareness are pulled … an empty shell that we inhabit which enables us to travel in another realm. We don’t just observe the cartoon we become it!” Young children live vicariously through their favorite cartoon characters and it creates an utterly transformative experience in which the historical memory is stored as children mature.

Corporations, aware of this power are able to market all types of products to kids by using associative techniques that many deem deceptive. Cartoons are utilized to influence kids to influence their parents – by any means necessary – to buy them the must-have product! By associating the “transformed identity” to products and services, children are often conditioned for impulsive consumption. Fortunately such powerful tools can be used to educate children and adults as well, as this Facebook campaign illustrates!

“Childhood Cartoon Faces” utilizes the very same associative techniques on a largely adult audience by asking us to use our power of memory and experience. They want us to remember our childhood exuberance and magic experienced through our favorite cartoons. It is potentially a profoundly cathartic moment of transformation for one to engage in this activity and that is one of the prime reasons that I believe as to why this is such a popular campaign.

We all have so many seminal memories of play and wonder associated with childhood cartoons. Tapping into our most favorite cartoons unleashes an “invasion of memories” from time gone by residing within us. By allowing us to relive our childhood memories, this “invasion of memory” can be used via association to bring awareness to many about the rise of violence towards children and reinforcing an emotional bond with this issue.

Some critics want to see this campaign translating into immediate action, but that is not how associative techniques necessarily work. Through the use of historical memory rooted in myth we can help create the long term conditions for change.

Now that violence towards children is on the minds of millions, sincere organizations fighting child abuse should learn from this campaign and configure ways to capitalize on the success of this Facebook campaign. The seeds have been planted.

Email John Kim: soulsurvivors@gmail.com

HERO ACADEMY: MYTHOLOGY AND CULTURAL EVOLUTION

HERO ACADEMY: MYTHOLOGY AND CULTURAL EVOLUTION

A Project of Soul Survivors ~ in development …

By John Kim and Orlando Green

(Draft 2.0)

VISION

Hero Academy identifies everyday people who carry out extraordinary acts of courage for the common good and have the potential to become heroes in their communities across America. Once identified and chosen, they will become part of a team (a class if you will) that will undergo a rigorous “transmedia” and “game play education” training process to support their current work.

Upon graduation, the “Heroes” of the select team will repeat the cycle of identifying a new team/class of heroes in their communities for recruitment and training. We envision a concentric network of community heroes who work for the common good of humanity. Every graduating team/class will also be encouraged to learn from each other and to support everyone’s respective efforts collectively.

ANALYSIS: MYTHOLOGY AS CULTURAL DNA

“Mythology was to him the song of the universe. Music so deeply imbedded in our collective unconscious that we dance to it even when we can’t name the tune.” Bill Moyers on Joseph Campbell, author of “The Power of Myth”.

Mythos is a complex immersive sociological and psychological narrative that operates on both the conscious and subconscious level for all people. It is comparable to a computer operating system, the default architecture of social mores and values or ethics. If DNA encodes our genetic makeup on a biological level, surely mythology has evolved side by side to encode humanity’s cultural and psycho-social makeup.

Mythos is as old as society serving humanity in a myriad of ways. Long misunderstood as just simple stories of ages gone by, in actuality mythos evolved to provide a seminal blueprint of cultural pedagogy for human society. Mythos if properly understood can be utilized as the seminal basis for social transformation and cultural evolution, helping to reinforce positive and universal social values for the purposes of human survival.

Hero Academy realizes that creating fundamental and universal transformation means that we must develop and reinforce social relationships that understand the function of mythos and its profound application across a rapidly evolving “transmedia” cultural terrain.

ANALYSIS: CULTURAL EVOLUTION AND HUMAN SURVIVAL

In a New York Times article on human evolution (December 2006), scientists determined that the genetic trait of lactose tolerance developed among humans as far back as several thousand years some 2,700 – 6,800 years in several East African ethnic groups. This discovery was startling and illuminating for several reasons.

First, it dispelled the notion that evolution was a process that took place at a glacial rate, over tremendously long periods of time. In evolutionary measurements, 2,700 – 6,800 hundred years is a rather brief period of time in comparison to periods that are measured in the tens of millions of years; for instance the transition from the dinosaur periods to the rise of the mammals. Another reason is that such genetic developments arose independently of the same adaptive trait found in northern European pastoralists – what scientists call “convergent evolution.”

However the most fascinating aspect of this discovery was that the cause of genetic evolution was due to the change in cultural influences. The development of husbandry or the ‘agricultural practice of breeding animals’ an estimated 9,000 years past, allowed the adults that were able to digest lactose (due to gene mutations) an advantage in surviving over those without the lactose tolerant trait. In the majority of sedentary societies the lactose trait was often lost as infants aged and developed a non-lactose based diet.

Our understanding of species evolution is that such a process is contingent on developments or changes in their natural environment. This discovery further expands upon that premise by indicating that culture itself is an integral part of that environment. “The dynamism of human culture has always seemed to move faster than evolution itself, but this discovery suggests otherwise. To understand this about ourselves is to realize how little we know about the long-term effects of the ways we choose to live.”

If the process of natural selection in genetic adaptation can be influenced by cultural changes as an integral part of their environment, then the process also holds that people and in extension communities can evolve and survive based on how they choose to live.

This discovery comes to us at a time when humanity is facing the catastrophic effects of unprecedented environmental and social duress putting into question the very survival of humanity itself. There is a stranglehold of reactionary corporatist and statist monoculture over the very fate of earth’s biodiversity and cultural spheres. The lesson to be learned from history can never be clearer about the necessity of cultural evolution in human society to safeguard our ability to survive, overcoming insurmountable odds.

What has been created through human design can also be undone. At the very heart of cultural evolution the creation of new mythos can provide a blueprint, a path towards humanity’s mutual salvation.

SYNTHESIS: CORE PRINCIPLES

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• We believe it is essential to create and design Interoperable Transformative Experiences
• We believe that we must create strategies to develop a new transformative majority
• We believe that Cultural ®evolution is the key component in helping to shape the human terrain
• We are committed to the creation of a new American Narrative

METHODOLOGY: GAME PLAY EDUCATION

Hero Academy can best be regarded as “game play”. All people across the world grow up playing games. Game play is a fundamental part of the acculturation, socialization and education of individuals in their respective societies. In the industrialized nations and the developing nations, game play has evolved with the emergence of digital and online platforms where gaming is now a part of new interactive social mediums. Game play is an integrated part of this new media life. It is usually perceived of as a purely leisurely activity but in fact game play should be fully understood as a “real time” and “immersive” educational learning experience.

In the last decade of the new millennia, the convergence of new technologies and their dynamic infusion with human culture has brought about the rise of a “real time” “immersive” and “mobile” media revolution – and this cultural evolution is still in its infancy. In the heart of this evolution “Game Play Education” as we will term it, holds much potential for our nation’s youth and if this exploration is properly facilitated, this process may provide dramatic, transformative results.

Cultural critics and the mainstream media have focused on exploring the real and potential negative effects of digital (video) gaming on the lives of youth, often linking video game play or new media use with youth violence, cyber stalkers and academic delinquency. This continues to be an area of concern, but that may be just one focal point in a diverse and profoundly complex field of study.

Leading experts from key sectors of society have come to convincing conclusions that game play and gaming culture actually helps develop essential and critical skills that employers need and demand in a 21^st century new media world. More importantly “Game Play Education” is critical for the wholistic development of all individuals. “Game Play Education” is widely recognized by experts to help young people develop experience based then knowledge based skill sets in these key areas:

• strategic and analytical thinking
• problem solving
• planning and execution
• decision making
• adaptation and response
• organizational skills
• innovation

“Game Play Education” can also be used to devise new training regimen for adults and workers in all types of fields. There are many popular games that can be adapted to further articulate and strengthen skill sets. All prerequisite academic subjects can be integrated and adapted for this curriculum. The key to understanding game play is that they will put people in an “immersive” “interactive” “real time” educational environment. It is fundamentally transformational.

METHODOLOGY: TRANSMEDIA AMPLIFIES GAME PLAY

Unlike traditional media which is comparatively static our contemporary multi-media society operates on multiple distributive platforms which allows for the dissemination of dynamic narratives that require an intense level of social interaction. Termed “transmedia” storytelling, this multi-medium can amplify mythos metanarratives exponentially.

In 2008, a similar “transmedia” activist strategy helped to usher in America’s first African-American President, Barack Obama. The very same strategy also operated in reverse during the 2010 Midterm Elections where the Tea Party overturned the Democratic Party majority through the creation of sophisticated counter narratives.

Hero Academy is primed to create a new American narrative across these mass media platforms thereby forging a new mythology of common heroism.

John Kim and Orlando Green … Thanks to Suzy Subways for first edits …

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