Twitter/Facebook Democracy

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1. Pick an issue. Voting Machine reform would be a good place to start in 2011 but it could be anything with popular support.

2. Ask local people in your social network (Facebook friends, etc) if they want to rally. Give a place and a time. Town centers, squares, or parks are good.

3. If an issue has popular support it should be easy to get a large group, if you tell 5 friends and they each tell 5 friends and so on.

4. Select a twitter hashtag, get rally attendees to tweet/retweet it in order to draw in people outside of your social network. If the rally is sufficiently large, it will trend (Twitter Frontpage). But this probably won't happen until a few successful rallies build up the movement.

5. Assuming you get 50+ people with signs, document it. Cell phone video, photos, whatever. Disseminate the documentation through Twitter using the same hashtag as before. This step is critical, because it is the only way to let the general public know something is going on, considering corporate media will not cover progressive rallies. It will also help to build up the next rally.

6. Repeat as necessary.

As far as I can tell, this process took down multiple middle-eastern dictators. Is there any reason it shouldn't work in the USA? Or are Liberals already doing this kind of thing? The Tea Party's corporate financiers have steps 1 & 2 covered for them, but I don't think we should wait any longer for our side to get top-down marching orders.