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The mayor of Atlanta Adele Peters, “This Atlanta Jail Will Transform into a Center for Justice and Equity,” Fast Company, June 15, 2020, www.fastcompany.com/90515296/this-atlanta-jail-will-transform-into-a-center-for-justice-and-equity.
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In New York, the state legislature Christopher Robbins, “New York State Legislature Votes to Repeal Law 50-A That Shields Police from Scrutiny,” Gothamist, June 9, 2020, gothamist.com/news/new-york-state-legislature-votes-repeal-law-50-shields-police-scrunity.
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“Those of us who have been” Frimpong, interviews with author, Dec. 23, 2019, and Sept. 29, 2020.
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an accounting of all the demonstrations “Demonstrations and Political Violence in America: New Data for Summer 2020,” ACLED, Sept. 2020, acleddata.com/2020/09/03/demonstrations-political-violence-in-america-new-data-for-summer-2020/.
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mutations of the meme Karen Attiah, “Breonna Taylor Deserves Better Than Memes and Barbecues,” The Washington Post, Aug. 22, 2020.
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But maybe most dispiriting Deja Thomas and Juliana Menasce Horowitz, “Support for Black Lives Matter Has Decreased Since June but Remains Strong Among Black Americans,” Pew Research Center, Sept. 16, 2020, www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/09/16/support-for-black-lives-matter-has-decreased-since-june-but-remains-strong-among-black-americans/.
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released a poll Eric Roper, “Poll: Cuts to Minneapolis Ranks Lack Majority Support,” Minneapolis Star Tribune, Aug. 15, 2020.
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the commission voted to override Astead W. Herndon, “A Quiet Retreat from ‘Defund’ in Minneapolis,” The New York Times, Sept. 27, 2020.
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the referendum on abolishing the police As of this writing, a coalition of activist groups, including Black Visions, appears to have gathered enough signatures to get a referendum on the ballot in November 2021 that would propose major changes to policing in the city, including creating a new public safety department and making it possible for the city council to eliminate the police department as currently constituted; Liz Navratil, “Minneapolis Residents Will Likely Vote in November on Future of City’s Police Department,” Minneapolis Star Tribune, May 14, 2021.
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4.5 percent of the police budget Jenny Gross and John Eligon, “Minneapolis City Council Votes to Remove $8 Million from Police Budget,” The New York Times, Dec. 10, 2020.
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Epilogue: Tables
Her book was a response Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1958), 53.
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“Over the last 15 years” Mark Zuckerberg, “A Privacy-Focused Vision for Social Networking,” Facebook, March 12, 2019, www.facebook.com/notes/mark-zuckerberg/a-privacy-focused-vision-for-social-networking/10156700570096634/.
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“identifying platforms that depart from” Ethan Zuckerman and Chand Rajendra-Nicolucci, “Beyond Facebook Logic: Help Us Map Alternative Social Media!,” Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, Oct. 8, 2020.
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the doings in a neighborhood Chand Rajendra-Nicolucci and Ethan Zuckerman, “Local Logic: It’s Not Always a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood,” Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, Nov. 30, 2020.
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When I asked him Zuckerman, interview with author, Dec. 3, 2020.
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In one of the earliest uses Chris Horton, “The Simple but Ingenious System Taiwan Uses to Crowdsource Its Laws,” MIT Technology Review, Aug. 21, 2018.
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“I was watching” Megill, interview with author, Jan. 8, 2021.
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“If I’m dissatisfied with this world” Anna Wiener, “Taking Back Our Privacy,” The New Yorker, Oct. 19, 2020.
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“This is like another type of family” James Wagner, “ ‘They Just Get It’: How Women in M.L.B. Found Support in a Group Text,” The New York Times, Oct. 19, 2020.
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“shift to private, where” Mina, interview with author, Dec. 23, 2020.
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WeChat users are being watched Louise Matsakis, “How WeChat Censored the Coronavirus Pandemic,” Wired, Aug. 27, 2020.
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Index
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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
A
Abrams, Stacey, 270–271
The African Morning Post
on British cocoa cartel, 89
conditions at, 86–87
contents, 86, 88, 89–91
contributors, 87, 96
debates within, 87–88
establishment of, 85, 86
popularity of, 93
as public sphere, 88
as seditious, 99–101
Agathange de Vendôme, 26–27
Agnew, Phillip, 244–245, 248, 249
Akhmatova, Anna, 105
Alaa Abd El Fattah, 185
Albion, Mack, 205
Alduino, Erica Joy, 203
Alexeyeva, Lyudmila, 110, 116, 123
Alinsky, Saul, 4, 204
alt-right
beliefs of, 187–188
Identity Evropa, 188, 196
Jews and, 192, 193, 194, 199, 200, 204, 206
optics, 189, 193–194, 195–197
social media and, 6, 188, 189, 190–191, 192, 202–203, 208–209, 263–264
Trump and, 187, 209–210
white supremacists and, 186, 188, 192, 193
widening appeal of, 198–199
women and, 192–193, 194, 202–204
America Online (AOL), 161
Amusing Ourselves to Death (Postman), 8–9
anarchism, 60
Andersen, Mark, 135
Anderson, Benedict, 89
Anglin, Andrew, 200, 204, 209
“The Antineutral Suit: A Manifesto” (Balla), 74
“Aphorisms on Futurism” (Loy), 64–65, 66–67, 68–69
Arendt, Hannah, 259–260
ARPANET, 151
Ayyash, Abdelrahman, 166, 167, 168
Azikiwe, Nnamdi, 93. See also The African Morning Post
basic facts about, 82–85, 95, 102, 270
as New African, 90, 93
political views of, 86, 88, 90, 91–92, 97
sedition charges against, 98–101
B
Balla, Giacomo, 73
Barberini, Francesco, 25, 32
Barlow, John Perry, 160–161
Bates, John, 40
Bayev, Gomer, 117
Bergstrom, Carl, 224–225
Berman, Marshall, 66
Bikceem, Ramdasha, 137–138
Bikini Kill, 130, 132, 144
Black Lives Matter, 6–7, 237–238, 239, 255–256
#BlackLivesMatter, 241–243
Black Visions (Collective), 249–252, 257–258
Bland, Sandra, 242
blogs, 166–167, 178–179, 189
Boccioni, Umberto, 59
Bogoraz, Larisa, 112–113
Bouazizi, Mohamed, 171
Brand, Stewart, 151–152, 154, 157
Bratmobile, 131–132, 144
Bright, Rick, 233
Brilliant, Larry, 151, 152
Britain. See also Chartism; Gold Coast (British colony)
Bull Ring incident, 44
colonial newspapers and, 79, 82, 95, 98
as colonial power, 81, 92–93
death penalty in, 50
as democracy, 35
Newport Rising, 45–47
Whig Party, 37–38
Britain: House of Commons
mass gatherings outlawed, 39
petitions presented to, 34–35, 43, 50, 54
Poor Law, 37–38
Reform Bill (1832), 37, 39
Reform Bill (1867), 54
Brodsky, Joseph, 105
Broughton, Lord, 43–44, 50
Brower, James, 208
Brown, Michael, 240–241
Bruno, Giordano, 15–16
Burke, Edmund, 35
C
Cambanis, Thanassis, 177, 178
Camera Work, 64
Caneva, Duane, 212–213, 234
Carlyle, Thomas, 47
Carruthers, D. G., 98
Case, Steve, 161
Cassien de Nantes, 29
Castile, Philando, 242
Catholic Church, 23–25, 26–28
CDC, 215, 216, 221, 222, 223, 231–232, 235–236
Celestin de St. Lidwine, 23, 29
Cernovich, Mike, 199
Chainsaw, 126
change
beginning of radical, 271
conversation and, 76–77, 89, 242–243, 249
education as necessary for, 42
incubation needed for, 4, 8, 10, 22, 31, 115, 173, 174–176, 177–178, 179, 269
internal change and, 65
manifestos and, 67, 76–77
memes and, 253, 256
newspapers and, 76–77, 89
petitions and, 40, 47
rate of, 3
samizdat and, 109, 112, 113, 114, 116–117, 124
violence as way to, 60–61, 73
Chapman, Kyle, 199–200
Charlottesville, Virginia 2017 rally
alt-right optics, 189, 193–194, 195–197
alt-right strategy and logistics, 198–201, 204
background, 189
events of, 186–187, 205–208
impact on alt-right, 208–209
location, 204–205
Charlottesville 2.0, 192
Chartism. See also People’s Charter
Bull Ring incident, 44
collapse, 45
death penalty and, 50–52
door-to-door signature collection, 41–42
growth of, 50–51
militants, 44–47
national convention, 40–41, 43
Newport Rising, 45–47, 50–51, 52
newspapers, 43
organization of, 53–54
petitions as political act, 54
strike, 44–45
women and children in, 42–43
working class and, 42, 47
Chartism (Carlyle), 47
Chase, Malcolm, 42
The Chicago Evening Post, 72
China, 267–268
Choo, Esther, 220, 221–222, 226–227
Chronicle of Current Events
accuracy, 116
after Gorbanevskaya, 123
contributors, 114–116, 117–118
Gabai and, 120
impact of, 112, 113, 114, 116–117, 124
as listing of human rights abuses, 110–111
Claret, Balthasar, 29
Clark, Jamar, 243
Coate, John “Tex”
basic facts about, 150, 152, 153, 158, 162
communication as key to self-government, 153–154
as overseeing host of WELL, 156–157, 161, 162
Colin Megill, 265–266
“the common world,” 259–260
communication. See also girl zines; letters; manifestos; newspapers; petitions; samizdat; social media
absolutely free, 152–153
conversations and change, 76–77, 89, 249
incubation of revolutions and, 7–8, 9–10, 15, 260
self-government and, 153–154
zines, 126–127, 134, 135
