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| Debunking & Dissent |
Debunking, when applied to others (as opposed to your own self-deception), often leads to dissent in some form. A study of the history of dissent reveals a great deal about how people lie and about how to debunk those lies.
Below are several pages covering elements relevant to debunking and dissent.
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Saul Alinsky Randolph Bourne John Brown Noam Chomsky Ernesto Cortes, founder of COPS in S.A. Voltairine DeCleyre Abraham Flexner Allen Ginsburg Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Mahatma Gandhi William Godwin Emma Goldman Woody Guthrie Vaclav Havel Duong Thu Huong Helen Keller Jack Kerouac Timothy Leary Martin Luther King, Jr. Maury Maverick Jeannette Rankin Will Rogers Margaret Sanger Henry David Thoreau Willie Velasquez in S.A. Emiliano Zapata |
The 1960s in the U.S. The American Revolution Liberation Theology Muckraking The Native American Movement Tianenmen Square Vietnam Social Stratification Theory The Populist movement (1880s & 1890s) The Feminist movement The civil rights movement The massive strikes in the Garment District of NY: the "uprising of the 20,000" in 1909 and "the uprising of the 50,000" in 1910. |
-Columbus discovered America and proved that the earth was
not flat. -The U.S. is the best place in the world to live. -The rich have worked harder than others and the poor are just lazy. -The mad cow disease is limited to England. We're perfectly safe in the U.S. -The U.S. intent in foreign relations is always to facilitate democracy and freedom. -Ownership of land by individuals has always been a grounding principle of American freedom. -Slavery was abolished a long time ago; we don't have "those kinds of problems" anymore. -Elections are a critical part of the U.S. political system. -The primary purpose of the American Revolution was to create a democracy where everyone is free. -The battle at the Alamo was for freedom and democracy. -The war on drugs is critically important; a major problem for U.S. society.
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ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) --focus
is on "organizing and building power for low and moderate-income
Americans"
Act Up --a civil disobedience index
Alliance for Justice --co/motion--"to empower a new generation of
activists to initiate significant social change today and tomorrow"
Alphabetical List of 12,000 World Problems --note the following:
Corporate Watch --"the Watchdog on the Web" (see the headlines)
Democracy NOW! --news
Pacifica Radio site --"When I began volunteering for a humanitarian
organization (the Albert Schweitzer Institute for the Humanities) at
the age of 18, I began to learn that the news being fed to me by
major newspapers and networks was massively ideologically biased.
A co-worker at the Institute told me about Pacifica, and I’ve been
listening online nightly since. I have not found a finer, more
comprehensive half hour of news anywhere"
