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Footprints of Astroturf: Google's "Beginner’s Guide to Protesting" Leaked by Project Veritas

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https://www.projectveritas.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/GoogleResist.pdf Beginner’s Guide to Protesting How to Guide + What to Expect + How You Can Help ________________________________________ Purpose of this document:  Create a living document to assemble best practices and ensure that everyone feels comfortable and pumped about  Resist@Google.com marches/protests. Please contribute to + comment on this document at will. Don’t feel comfortable, or want to help? Reach out: resist@google.com ________________________________________ Quick Reference: ●   What to Bring ●   Do’s and Dont’s ●   Know Your Rights ●   Expert’s Guide to Chanting Protesting is an important part of Democracy, and it’s important to remember that it’s a proven method of enacting civil change. You’re exercising your rights by participating, and while it’s energizing to be surrounded by people united by a common cause, it’s more enjoyable and safer when you come prepared. Espe

"The Forever War Is So Normalized That Opposing It Is 'Isolationism'” by Caitlin Johnstone

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After getting  curb stomped on the debate stage  by Tulsi Gabbard, the campaign for Tim “Who the fuck is Tim Ryan?” Ryan  posted a statement  decrying the Hawaii congresswoman’s desire to end a pointless 18-year military occupation as “isolationism”. “While making a point as to why America can’t cede its international leadership and retreat from around the world, Tim was interrupted by Rep. Tulsi Gabbard,” the statement reads. “When he tried to answer her, she contorted a factual point Tim was making— about the Taliban being complicit in the 9/11 attacks by providing training, bases and refuge for Al Qaeda and its leaders. The characterization that Tim Ryan doesn’t know who is responsible for the attacks on 9/11 is simply unfair reporting. Further, we continue to reject Gabbard’s isolationism and her misguided beliefs on foreign policy. We refuse to be lectured by someone who thinks it’s ok to dine with murderous dictators like Syria’s Bashar Al-Assad who used

A World of Shadows

The Allegory of the Cave "Some 2,500 years ago, Plato warned us of the invisible chains tying us to a distorted world of deception, ignorance and powerlessness. In the beginning of book 7 of  The Republic , Plato explains how people chained to the dark floor of a Cave can only look ahead of them. They cannot turn around. There is a lighted fire, a narrow path, and a stone wall behind them. The chained Cave dwellers see shadows of what is going on behind them. Those broken and disorienting images become the truth and reality of their world. Some outsiders entered the Cave. They cut the chains of a prisoner in order to enable him to see who manipulated the images behind him. The liberators  then dragged him out of the Cave to the Sun-bathed surface of the land. The exciting challenge, Plato said, was for the enlightened and free Cave dweller to return to the Cave to convince his colleagues to  abandon their dark, imaginary, and distorted world. There was a new world out there