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There are intellectual risks and physical risks and financial risks and emotional risks and social risks and ethical risks and political risks.
Our political system remains the same for the past 200 years and expects us to be contented with being simply passive recipients of a monologue.
But in order to be part of this conversation, we need to know what we want to do next, because political action is being able to move from agitation to construction.
So we reached out to traditional political parties and we offered them DemocracyOS.
Political parties were never willing to change the way they make their decisions.
And so we took quite a leap of faith, and in August last year, we founded our own political party, El Partido de la Red, or the Net Party, in the city of Buenos Aires.
It was our way of hacking the political system.
But we were hacking it in the sense that we were radically changing the way a political party makes its decisions.
Our political system can be transformed, and not by subverting it, by destroying it, but by rewiring it with the tools that Internet affords us now.
By 2005, a decade later, at a time of political crisis, economic crisis, the share of poor people went down to 31 percent.
The other really destructive and, I think, even more insidious lesson that comes from accepting this mindset is there's an implicit bargain that people who accept this mindset have accepted, and that bargain is this: If you're willing to render yourself sufficiently harmless, sufficiently unthreatening to those who wield political power, then and only then can you be free of the dangers of surveillance.
For example, researchers have conducted a number of studies where they’ve asked people of different political backgrounds to rank their values.
Are we going to wait 10 to 15 years for this to happen or are we going to finally have this political will to make it happen in the next two years?
This is Beppe Grillo he was a populist Italian blogger who, with a minimal political apparatus and only some online tools, won more than 25 percent of the vote in recent Italian elections.
The government had a military strategy, it had a legal strategy, it had a political strategy, but it said, "We don't really have a communications strategy, and it probably would be a good thing to have," so we decided to immediately jump into this, because it is an opportunity to affect the outcome of the conflict with the things that we do, with the tools that we have.
So this is what I've dedicated my life to, to building an organization and a movement of people who believe we need to turn our backs on the failed prohibitions of the past and embrace new drug policies grounded in science, compassion, health and human rights, where people who come from across the political spectrum and every other spectrum as well, where people who love our drugs, people who hate drugs, and people who don't give a damn about drugs, but every one of us believes that this War on Drugs, this backward, heartless, disastrous War on Drugs, has got to end.
CA: Certainly in the U.S., you've got political gridlock on most issues.
And actually, our political beliefs also can affect the way we see other people, including politicians.
Her first memories are of her family fleeing violent riots orchestrated by the ruling political party.
Mary and her friends were filming for months, undercover, the intimidation of the ruling political party.
["Disruption of political meeting"] For those who lie, saying they are back with [The Party], your time is running out.
Mary and her friends forced the ruling political party not to use violence during the election, and saved hundreds of lives.
Today, we're building a custom-made hidden camera, like the one that Mary was wearing in her dress to film the intimidation meeting of the ruling political party.
In the U.K., the police department put 80-year-old John Kat on a plate reader watch list after he had attended dozens of lawful political demonstrations where he liked to sit on a bench and sketch the attendees.
History has shown that once the police have massive quantities of data, tracking the movements of innocent people, it gets abused, maybe for blackmail, maybe for political advantage, or maybe for simple voyeurism.
Tear gas definitely helped to open mine to something that I want to share with you this afternoon: that livestreaming the power of independent broadcasts through the web can be a game-changer in journalism, in activism, and as I see it, in the political discourse as well.
And it was this clash of visions, this clash of narratives, that I think turned those protests into a long period in the country of political reckoning where hundreds of thousands of people, probably more than a million people took to the streets in the whole country.
But it was in this environment of political catharsis that the country was going through that it had to do with politics, indeed, but it had to do also with a new way of organizing, through a new way of communicating.
I said that livestream could turn the web into a colossal TV network, but I believe it does something else, because after watching people using it, not only to cover things but to express, to organize themselves politically, I believe livestream can turn cyberspace into a global political arena where everyone might have a voice, a proper voice, because livestream takes the monopoly of the broadcast political discourse, of the verbal aspect of the political dialogue out of the mouths of just politicians and political pundits alone, and it empowers the citizen through this direct and non-mediated power of exchanging experiences and dialogue, empowers them to question and to influence authorities in ways in which we are about to see.
And I believe it does something else that might be even more important, that the simplicity of the technology can merge objectivity and subjectivity in a very political way, as I see it, because it really helps the audience, the citizen, to see the world through somebody else's eye, so it helps the citizen to put him- or herself in other people's place.
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