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## Re: [alpha] INSIGHT- US/MENA- Movements.org

Released on 2012-03-06 09:00 GMT

Email-ID | 1140035
Date | 2011-03-29 23:45:20
From | burton@stratfor.com
To | alpha@stratfor.com
List-Name | alpha@stratfor.com

Good work Sean.
Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T
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From: Sean Noonan <sean.noonan@stratfor.com>
Sender: alpha-bounces@stratfor.com
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 16:17:19 -0500 (CDT)
To: Alpha List<alpha@stratfor.com>
ReplyTo: Alpha List <alpha@stratfor.com>
Subject: Re: [alpha] INSIGHT- US/MENA- Movements.org
He is a co-founder and board member. So he oversees the show, but isn't
doing day-to-day work.
On 3/29/11 4:12 PM, Bayless Parsley wrote:
So what is Cohen's current ties with them?
On 3/29/11 4:04 PM, Reginald Thompson wrote:
SOURCE: n/a
ATTRIBUTION: STRATFOR source
SOURCE DESCRIPTION: Main organizer at movements.org
PUBLICATION: Some is not for publication. Rest is background
SOURCE RELIABILITY:
ITEM CREDIBILITY: [in terms of knowing what movements.org is doing,
they are A-1, but in terms of what the other groups are doing, source
is not great]
SPECIAL HANDLING: none
SOURCE HANDLER: Sean
My Notes:
How Movements.org got started: [This part is not for publication]
in 2008 it became apparent to the USG that they needed to do public
diplomacy over the internet. So Jared Cohen was at DoS then and
played a major role in starting the organization. The main goal was
just spreading the good word about the US. Similar inititiaves have
come aobut in 21st Century Diplomacy and Civil Society 2.0, but
movments.org has since split from the US government. A key turning
point in leading to its creates was seeing Oscar Morales organize a
Global Day of Protest against FARC in 2008. This is the first time
social networking was really used to organize a protest. [This part
is not for publication]
Three goals- Taking people wanting social change from the internet to
constructive activism by:
1. monopolizing on initial success (this generally means getting
popular on facebook)
2. Staying secure
3. Peer-to-peer training
Currently choosing "Unlikely Leaders" to be invited to the next Global
Summit. These are people that for example start a facebook activisit
group that becomes very popular and then suddenly are completely
unprepared--much like April 6 in Egypt. CANVAS will also be invited.
Source is familiar with them, but has not been through their
training.
they are part of a network of NGOs ready to negotiate with Facebook
when activist accounts are deleted or hacked. Movements.org wants a
sort of Facebook customer service to be created just to deal with
activism, since there are positives and negatives to allowing
anonymous accounts, and those will probably never be allowed anyway.
Movements.org is engaging with these groups once they actually get
popular. This is the main criteria for their involvement, or inviting
them to their Summits.
Answer to the neutrality issue-- "we are by no means trying to
overthrow governments." Movements.org goal is to develop civil society
and social movements.
[Not for Pub. And don't let this get back to RS501, for now]
"Serbia is exactly what we don't want to see"---Otpor needed a
political leader and was able to create that, but Dindic was assinated
in 2003 and the momentum of Otpor has not been maintained
afterwards. [Not for pub]
The Internet is helpful in bring people together, but the hard part is
keeping them together. The first real examples politically were the
color revolutions and now MENA. But the challenge has been keeping
the momentum going to keep these social movements alive. They were a
case study in the power of technology for short-term political change,
but that's it.
Movements.org was communicating with someone at April 6 who said they
had established different cells across Cairo in case one group was
arrested. [not sure if we knew this]
Egyptians are now presented with two choices--1. to find a political
leader and take power or, 2. To create a sustainable social movement.
Source sees this as a dichotomy.
Manuel Castells is the only academic to have really examined the
internet in terms of social networks.
Agrees with S-weekly on Social media. The impetus for these
revolutions is there already, social media is just tapping into that.
MY THOUGHTS AND IMPRESSIONS
First, to explain the thing about Serbia- the source is pretty set on
trying to create these long-term sustainable social movements that are
effective over various issues, rather than new political parties that
take power. The criticism of OTPOR is interesting, and is telling
about how Movements.org would like to work.
I get the idea that this organization is actually farther behind then
we are--understaffed and inexperienced. I don't mean this critically,
because really no one is that experienced in online organization--they
are breaking new ground. They have a pretty good understanding of the
challenges presented by social media--and that is really what they are
focusing on, but don't really have solutions yet. Their main response
to this is to develop this peer-to-peer training done through people
they designate as ambassadors to work with others in their own country
or region. So really what Movements.org is doing right now is
creating a database of training materials and valuable networks for
groups to learn from each other--not doing direct training like
CANVAS.
They are also doing everything after things get started--waiting for
these groups to get big, then trying to work with them. This means
they aren't identifying countries or groups to start some shit in.
Though, I get the impression they would like to be more active in th
emore oppresive countries like Cuba and Myanmar. You can probably
see how the idealism bleeds through.
--
Sean Noonan
Tactical Analyst
Office: +1 512-279-9479
Mobile: +1 512-758-5967
Strategic Forecasting, Inc.
www.stratfor.com
--
Sean Noonan
Tactical Analyst
Office: +1 512-279-9479
Mobile: +1 512-758-5967
Strategic Forecasting, Inc.
www.stratfor.com