{"id":19960,"date":"2016-04-14T19:19:10","date_gmt":"2016-04-15T00:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=19960"},"modified":"2016-04-14T19:19:10","modified_gmt":"2016-04-15T00:19:10","slug":"do-ongoing-global-events-prove-the-world-is-ready-for-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=19960","title":{"rendered":"Do Ongoing Global Events Prove the World Is Ready for Revolution?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Do Ongoing Global Events Prove the World Is Ready for Revolution?<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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(<\/b>ANTIMEDIA<\/b><\/a>)<\/b>\u00a0Earth \u2014<\/i>\u00a0Paralleling the increasingly draconian policies marking a worldwide descent into fascism, are massive protests \u2014 born in the Arab Spring, but arguably an angrier, more potent extension of the Occupy movement \u2014 indicative of an\u00a0unprecedented<\/i>\u00a0tipping point.<\/p>\n

We, the people of this planet, now stand together, gazing over the precipice whose murky depths of State repression demand we ask one imperative question: have we finally had enough?<\/p>\n

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\u201c[W]e have lost the way,\u201d<\/i>\u00a0Charlie Chaplin\u00a0implores<\/a>\u00a0us to consider in his renowned and timeless monologue from\u00a0The Great Dictator<\/i>, because\u00a0\u201cGreed has poisoned men\u2019s souls \u2014 has barricaded the world with hate; has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

And now, 76 years after Chaplin cautioned us to scrutinize our collective humanity, that avarice \u2014 evidenced in imperialism championed by the U.S. government \u2014 has ossified a lazy apathy in the populace, of seeming impenetrable resolve.\u00a0Until now<\/i>.<\/p>\n

\"Chaplin<\/a><\/p>\n

Though sparks of revolution have sporadically ignited people\u2019s movements countless times before, our present tipping point most likely began with the self-immolation of a young fruit cart vendor in Tunisia in 2011. So incensed by an unjust law and a policewoman\u2019s disrespectful public slap as she attempted to confiscate his only means of supporting a large family, Mohamed Bouazizi\u00a0set himself on fire<\/a>\u00a0in front of a government building \u00a0\u2014 and set off the tremendous wave of protests for democracy and human rights, which came to be monikered the Arab Spring.<\/p>\n

Occupy followed shortly afterward in a moment many believed with certainty would force an unparalleled shift toward freedom. But the government, keen to maintain its maniacal chokehold of control, also knew this \u2014 and\u00a0infiltrated<\/a>\u00a0the movement to impart divisive infighting and confusion to effectively quash the threat.<\/p>\n

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Do Ongoing Global Events Prove the World Is Ready for Revolution? (ANTIMEDIA)\u00a0Earth \u2014\u00a0Paralleling the increasingly draconian policies marking a worldwide descent into fascism, are massive protests \u2014 born in the Arab Spring, but arguably an angrier, more potent extension of the Occupy movement \u2014 indicative of an\u00a0unprecedented\u00a0tipping point. We, the people of this planet, now […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8350,3320,11494,13487,338,379,13488,585,656,7305,685],"class_list":["post-19960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-anti-media","tag-arab-spring","tag-claire-bernish","tag-draconian-policies","tag-freedom","tag-government","tag-mohamed-bouazizi","tag-occupy","tag-protest","tag-repression","tag-revolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19961,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19960\/revisions\/19961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}