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"Smart Mob" ( Intelligent anarchistic patterned electronically mediated responses) BW
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_mob
"In the Philippines in 2001, a group of protesters organized via text messaging gathered at the EDSA Shrine, the site of the 1986 revolution that overthrew Ferdinand Marcos, to protest the corruption of President Joseph Estrada. The protest grew quickly, and Estrada was soon removed from office.[4]
The Critical Mass bicycling events, dating back to 1992, are also sometimes compared to smart mobs, due to their self-organizing manner of assembly."[5][6]
(In response to):
*Call For Papers: American Anthropological Association*
*Annual Conference**: *Chicago, Illinois – November 20th - 24th, *2013 ***
*Panel Title:** *
*The New “Youth Movements”: Political Subjectivity, Crisis, and Resistance *
*Panel Organizers*:
Manissa McCleave Maharawal ([log in to unmask]), CUNY Graduate Center
Zoltán Glück, ([log in to unmask]), CUNY Graduate Center
In late October, 2011 Egyptian activists wrote a solidarity letter to
Occupy Wall Street in which they stated: “an entire generation across the
globe has grown up realizing, rationally and emotionally, that we have no
future in the current order of things,” (Guardian 2011). Identifying a
commonality in their struggles, the letter expresses a blunt urgency; that
their generation is going to have to create “what we can no longer wait
for” (ibid). This urgency was also seemingly felt by thousands around the
world as youth-led movements over the past two years have toppled
governments from Tunis to Montreal. Within these movements, and in their
wake, new forms of political practices, political identities, and
solidarities have emerged and begun to change the way that young people
facing dire social and economic challenges understand their lived reality.
Youth worldwide continue to be hit the hardest by the global economic
turbulence and job crises (UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs,
2012) and are slated for continued economic struggles. However, as shown by
their overwhelming participation in various political struggles around the
globe, youth are challenging these conditions in a myriad of complex and
organized ways.
(ETC.)
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