Jeffrey Feldman's diary talks about how to remake protests so that they are more effective. Here are the steps:
1) Pick One Color
2) A Slogan Everyone Can Say
3) Pick A Protest Gesture
All of those steps are meant to make protests work in a more savvy media environment. But to expand on my comments in that thread, they miss the main point.
This is first and foremost a war of information. But the only two entities fighting that war are BushCo and Osama bin Laden. Both do so through competing campaigns of misinformation. Yet we on the left are fighting the last war, with the same old weapons.
To fight on the terms of an information war, we have to target the tools of misinformation that BushCo has used to decieve and obfuscate. That means we have to go after the media filter itself.
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