What Egypt learned from the students who overthrew Milosevic
Amplify’d from www.foreignpolicy.com
The
botched April 6 protests, the leaders
realized in their aftermath, had been an object lesson in the limits of social
networking as a tool of democratic revolution. Facebook could bring together
tens of thousands of sympathizers online, but it couldn't organize them once
they logged off. It was a useful communication tool to call people to -- well,
to what? The April 6 leaders did not know the answer to this question. So they
decided to learn from others who did. In the summer of 2009, Mohamed Adel, a
20-year-old blogger and April 6 activist, went to Belgrade, Serbia.
Serbian capital is home to the Center for Applied NonViolent Action and
Strategies, or CANVAS, an organization run by young Serbs who had cut their
teeth in the late 1990s student uprising against Slobodan Milosevic. After
ousting him, they embarked on the ambitious project of figuring out how to
translate their success to other countries.
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