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Without #communication there can be no #resistance.

Communication is what allows isolated #dissidents to join up, understand their situation, and #plan for #action It is what allows a resistance group to break its isolation to become part of a #movement, rooted in larger #society.

#Resisters need to #communicate to #strategize, #analyze, #mobilize, and #act, especially under #repressive #surveillance states. Good communication is a prequisite to successful #recruiting, #fundraising, and movement-building in general.

And conversely, it is the #corporatemedia and other official channels of communication that allow the government to #control the popular #narrative and imagination, to #smear or #deceive resisters, to divide dissidents against each other, even to obscure or #erase struggles for #justice from collective memory. So it's no surprise-with so much at stake that effective resisters fight to reach out and communicate.

Rarely is that as dramatic as the takeover of a TV station in the middle of a parliamentary broadcast. Communication through less fantastic methods (giving #interviews, making #websites, and sharing #pamphlets) is no less important. Effective communication doesn't have to be a spectacle (and the drive to make it a spectacle can be a trap the mass media use to distort movements).

I’m not going to tell you here how to make a zine or write a press release; those practicalities are handled in more detail elsewhere. I'm going to address bigger questions that are discussed less often:

How do resistance movements communicate externally to reach #sympathizers and #supporters?

How do they deal with the power and contradictions of the mass media?

How do they communicate internally to build a shared culture and organize action?

And how do they maintain safe communication - especially in #underground groups-when dealing with repressive states and pervasive surveillance?

Kempeleläinen Aada Kalliosalo, 17, valtaa Oulun kaupunginjohtajan työhuoneen naistenpäivänä

Tempauksen teemana on tyttöjen ja tasa-arvon edistäminen yhteiskunnallisessa päätöksenteossa ja yritysmaailmassa.

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Yle Uutiset · Kempeleläinen Aada Kalliosalo, 17, valtaa Oulun kaupunginjohtajan työhuoneen naistenpäivänäTempauksen teemana on tyttöjen ja tasa-arvon edistäminen yhteiskunnallisessa päätöksenteossa ja yritysmaailmassa.

This Daniel Cheng is a scourge to good society!

Thais effectively barred fr entering casinos in new draft #regulation 👏
"Daniel Cheng, a #gaming #consultant based in Singapore🤦‍♂️ "A further THB50mil bank deposit requirement wld render #Thai casinos no better than foreigner-only regimes like S. Korea" he said.. an #opinion #poll last mth found tt most Thais #oppose the #casino #plan & some political parties argue tt build'g a #gambling industry wld worsen #social #problems"
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Bangkok Post · Thais effectively barred from entering casinos in new draft regulation  By Reuters