Ronald Reagan didnt tear down the wall. Popular movements did! This weekend, if you listen to many mainstream accounts of the fall of the Berlin Wall 25 years ago and the wider revolutions in Eastern Europe, youll hear a lot about geopolitics, but very little about popular movements. This is wrong, and it obscures the critical lessons that the Revolutions of 1989 have for us now. Check out the following article, about what mainstream commentators get wrong about the historic uprisings of 1989, and about how those promoting change today can organize the next uprising! wagingnonviolence.org/feature/berlin-wall-today-lessons-harnessing-moment-whirlwind/
Posted on: Sat, 08 Nov 2014 18:24:52 +0000
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