http://eurogeneration.cafebabel.com/en/ A new generation is born en Wed, 08 Oct 2008 09:10:23 +02:00 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Dotclear http://eurogeneration.cafebabel.com/en/post/2007/10/15/%5BBlog-action-day%5D-Siamo-o-non-siamo-una-generazione-impegnata#c137 urn:md5:7b38236f7a3e83439588b7d913f9fc0b Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:58:39 +02:00 andreas <p>Speaking with the memory of someone 17 years your senior, I am sure that the anti-nuclear protesters and anti-missile activists of the early eighties were just as sincerely committed to their fight as today's people, young and not-so-young-anymore, are to combating global warming or dictatorship in Burma.<br /> What has changed though, and there I agree with you, are the means of communicating. In the old days, protesters had to think of ways of getting the attention of the mass media.<br /> With powerful means of communication at the hands of everyone who is willing to use them, actions can be distributed instead of centralised and internet petitions manage to mobilise people in numbers that are close - but only close to - to the big protests of the seventies to nineties. Even with the experience of both, I wouldn't want to judge which is more or less driven by 'fashion'.</p>