A friend of mine with a lot of experience in activism recently told me that he hates awareness-raising. In the discussion that ensued, he made an awfully good case for ignoring how media outlets will report an event, and instead working to change the facts on the ground.
I don't know if this will actually work. While there are probably lots of men of conscience in the armies of the Arab world, there are also probably lots of opportunists (especially in the top echelons) who will only refuse their orders if they know that they will be caught on camera, and the images broadcast to the world.
So I think this is a pretty good idea:
Blackout-Proof the Protests
Give what you can.
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Hey. I was watching the recent address by Aljazeera's Director General,Wadah Khanfar, at the TED conference in California. He narrated the story of how he got a call one night at the time of the Egyptian Protest asking him to keep the Camera's on or there would be a massacre. With actions of these savage dictators and their regimes broadcast worldwide, their actions are limited . I commend Aljazeera and other news networks as well as the journalists and people who are risking their lives in hot zones and keeping their Cameras ON.
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