People or Sheeple On JFK and 'The Whole Mess'

[Ed Jewett]

Here's what I'd like to do here, in this thread or on this web site, subject to ... (I do some cross-over posting and communicating to other places):

I'd like to have a conversation about how to find, coalesce and energize others (whether online or face-to-face).

And I'd like to suggest that we go through that list of 198 ways and begin to brainstorm the examples, what's, how's, ideas, etc.

And, of course, I'd like to enlarge this conversation to enroll others ...

I am pleased to see this, Ed. It's stuff I have been thinking about for a long time. Here are some points that I think need to be considered before progress can be made on this front:

First, Dr. King and Gandhi, indeed all civil rights and human rights leaders, spoke to a population who knew they were oppressed. Most of the people we will encounter have to learn that they are oppressed, or have to be made to understand that oppression is coming.

I will have to return to this post and this thread regularly but, for now, let me zero in on the comment quoted above; I think it is the very tip of our spear, the task that most needs our attention -- but then this feeds into the comments previous about guild et alia because the efforts of the people like Douglass, Drago and his mentor, Jack White, the founders of DPF et al -- the list is long so forgive me for leaving out names -- is the sine qua non. Wondering what happened in Dealey Plaza is what started most of us down this road, and the research into deep politics, current events et al.

I am also going to note your comment about tweeting on twitter and the use of social media. I have been concerned about that kind of stuff, having read about how it is both monitored and used (and therefore, almost by definition if not in fact) corrupted by the state security apparatus and the purveyors of yuck.

in addition, it takes time. But I also read John Robb's blog GlobalGuerrillas regularly to learn more about tactics in our day and age. Robb's commentary on "the super-empowered individual" may be useful to those active in non-violent movements as well. I do now have a cell phone with camera capability, though I don't tend to find myself (yet) on the scene of action that would need to be recorded. I can't afford an iPhone or a Blackberry. I also take note of the arrest of those at the G20 behind-the-scenes who were using such technologies. But we must learn to use their tools against them, I guess, and labor on with the sure knowledge that we may be called on to pay a price (the message of Douglass' books).

Here's a side note, though: Given Cass Sunstein's recent pronouncements about taxing and/or banning certain thouights and projections, the founders here at DPF ought to provide some clear direction on where this conversation should take place, if it should at all under their aegis, and -- if so -- where.