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Crowd Funding Civilized Revolution
Originating in Iceland and rebounding back by way of Scoop (New Zealand), this story includes a link to the kickstarter page at the end of the tale, "crowd-funding civilized revolution." ....A quick summary:
"...the word for "Cutlery" in Icelandic is the same as the word for "Civilisation." I felt this could be a very nice hook to help people to understand what was so special about Hordur's revolution.
Revolution as a general idea has quite rightly earned itself a profoundly negative public perception. Revolutions tend to be uncivil in their conduct and to lead to uncivil outcomes for everybody. But what happened in Iceland was very different from the usual chaos leading up to a dramatic display of public anger - in this case public anger in the face of a catastrophically worsening, widespread economic crisis. By the time Hordur made the call to surround Iceland's Parliament and bang pots and pans till the Government resigned, the vast majority of Iceland's public were generally behind the demonstration outside their Parliament. They wanted both the Government (guided and financed by bankers) which had gotten Iceland into such a mess, and the Board of the National Bank, to resign.
And so this revolution was unlike so many others. It was civilised.
The Icelandic protest movement began with him standing outside his Parliament and asking passers by two questions :
- Do you know what is going on?
- Do you know what we should do about it?
Which if you think about it are good questions to ask. And they are questions which apply with equal relevance to the questions about matters like, for example :
- Do you know what the NSA is doing?
- What does it mean for us in our country?
- And what should we do about it?
.....
What you can do...... click the link and go to the kickstarter page and facebook page, and shar abd re-post.
They're not trying to raise a very large amount of money, at all....
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1409/S00062/crowd-funding-civilised-revolution-500-words.htm
