Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere

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Paul Mason. Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere

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WHY IT’S KICKING OFF

The New Global Revolutions

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Someone who knows nothing about history, the opposition, nothing about freedom in Egypt and how it’s been suppressed—because I’ve been so disconnected—you see all these people around you chanting the same thing and it triggers something in your mind ... You see people running towards the police, hurling bricks at them—and wow: the normal scenario would be to run away. I went home and I told my mother—I am not myself. I am somebody new that was born today.

The demonstrators took Tahrir Square. They fought the police, held impromptu meetings, gave sound bites to the world’s media and, by nightfall, the Egyptian Revolution had begun. Twitter was blocked by the Egyptian government around 5 p.m., but the main activists were back on via a proxy (hidemyass.com) around 9 p.m. It was—as some of the activists proclaimed—a revolution planned on Facebook, orga-nized on Twitter and broadcast to the world via YouTube. The global news channels, above all Al-Jazeera, became a massive amplifier for the amateur reports and videos, spreading the revolution’s impact across the world.

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