@gulfgal98 also @Wink
go to Munich for that event by train (8-10 hour trip). And then there was something, something happening and I got all messed up and - helas - I didn't go anymore. I am a little disappointed I didn't make it, because I like to watch and listen to such events in person.

On another issue ...
This is, btw, an article that I like a lot, which explains that what I had a feeling for (staged protests), but was not educated enough to formulate and base it on something convincing. Hedges does that very well, imo.

The Danger of Leadership Cults
Non-violent activism that makes an impact is really hard to come by.
Some excerpts:

All of our radical and populist organizations, including unions and the press, are decimated or destroyed. If we are to successfully pit power against power we must reject the cult of the self, the deadly I-consciousness that seduces many, including those on the left, to construct little monuments to themselves. We must understand that it is not about us. It is about our neighbor. We must not be crippled by despair. Our job is to name and confront evil.
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It means beginning where people are. It means listening. It means establishing credentials as a member of a community willing to make personal sacrifices for the well-being of others. It means being unassuming, humble and often unnamed and unrecognized. It means, as Cornel West said, not becoming “ontologically addicted to the camera.” It means, West went on, rejecting the “obsession with self as some kind of grand messianic gift to the world.”
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One cannot fight what one does not understand. Effective political change, as Baker knew, is not primarily politically motivated. It is grounded in human solidarity, mutual trust and consciousness. As Harriet Tubman said: “I rescued many slaves, but I could have saved a thousand more if the slaves knew they were slaves.”
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The building of consciousness and mass organizations will not be quick. But these mass movements cannot become public until they are strong enough to carry out sustained actions, including civil disobedience and campaigns of noncooperation. The response by the state will be vicious. Without a dedicated and organized base we will not succeed.
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Organizing, Moses said, begins around a particular issue that is important to the community—raising the minimum wage, protecting undocumented workers, restoring voting rights to former prisoners, blocking a fracking site, halting evictions, ending police violence or stopping the dumping of toxic waste in neighborhoods. Movements rise organically. Dissidents are empowered and educated one person at a time. Any insurgency, he said, has to be earned.
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Moses warned movements, such as Black Lives Matter, about establishing a huge media profile without a strong organizational base. Too often protests are little more than spectacles, credentialing protesters as radicals or dissidents while doing little to confront the power of the state. The state, in fact, often collaborates with protesters, carrying out symbolic arrests choreographed in advance. This boutique activism is largely useless. Protests must take the state by surprise and, as with the water protectors at Standing Rock, cause serious disruption. When that happens, the state will drop all pretense of civility, as it did at Standing Rock, and react with excessive force.
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Arggh I always enjoy so much when I read something that makes clear what I have thought about in nebulous, vague terms and then someone writes it out and it all becomes clear. Hedges does that often. And then I can't stop excerpting, because I can't decide what is the most important paragraph.

Still waiting for the video with Glenn, Jill and Abby to be posted.

Had a great time in Munich with the fantastic @DrJillStein talking about big picture solutions to imperialism & inequality. Her tenacity to keep fighting for us despite being incessantly vilified by corporate warmongers inspires the hell out of me. pic.twitter.com/nOAQsP17QG

— Abby Martin (@AbbyMartin) May 8, 2018

@CB

EVENT TRAILER: Glenn Greenwald, Jill Stein & Abby Martin - Freedom & Democracy

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eG3AVMf2S38]

Looks like it will be well worth watching.