Why It's Still Kicking Off Everywhere (43 page)

Masai with a mobile, the 133–34

Masoud, Tarek 27

Masry Shebin El-Kom textile factory 22–23

mass culture 29–30

Matrix, The
(film) 29

Meadows, Alfie 51

media, the 28–29

@mehri912 34

Meltdown
(Mason) 31–32

memes 75, 150–52, 152

Merkel, Angela 96, 98, 99, 112

Michas, Takis 103

Middle East: balance of power 178; Facebook usage 135; failure of specialist to understand 25–27

Milburn, Alan 114

Miliband, Ed 58, 60, 188

Millbank riot 42–44

Millennium Challenge 2002 82–83

Miller, Henry 128

misery 209

mobile telephony 75–76, 133–34

modernism 28

mortgage-backed securities 106–8

Moses, Jonathan 48

Mousavi, Mir-Hossein 33–34

movement without a name 66

Mubarak, Alaa 17–18

Mubarak, Gamal 8, 10, 17–18, 26

Mubarak, Hosni 9, 10, 14, 15, 18–19, 19–20, 26, 31

Murdoch, Rupert 31, 106, 148–49

Muslim Brotherhood 21, 177

NAFTA 166–67

Napoleon III 172, 191

Nasser, Gamal Abdel 19

National Gallery teach-in 53, 53–54

nationalism 124

Native Americans 162, 163

Negri, Toni 42

Netanyahu, Binyamin 180

network animals 147

networked individualism 130, 130–33, 141

networked protests 81–82, 85

networked revolution, the 79–85; erosion of power relations 80–81; informal hierarchies 83; networked protests 81–82; network relationships 81; swarm tactics 82–83

network effect, the 2, 74–75, 77; erosion of power relations 80–81; strength 83; usefulness 84

network relationships 81

Nevins, Allan 182

New Journalism 3

News Corporation 148—49

News of the World
49; phone hacking scandal 61, 148–49

New Unrest, social roots of 65–66, 85; demographics of revolt 66–73; information tools 75–76; the networked revolution 79–85; organizational format 77–78; technology and 74–79; the urban poor 70–72

New York Times
170

1984
(Orwell) 30, 129

Nomadic Hive Manifesto, The
53–54

@norashalaby 13

North Africa: demographics of revolt 66; students and the urban poor 71

Obama, Barack 72, 116–18, 120, 122, 162, 167, 170, 180, 183, 187

OccupiedLondon blog 88–89

Occupy Wall Street movement, the 139, 144, 187, 210

Office for National Statistics 115

Ogden-Nussbaum, Anna, @eponymousthing 184

Oklahoma 153, 153–56

Oldouz84 36, 37

Olives, Monchet 202–4

online popularity 75

On the Jewish Question
(Marx) 143

Open Source software 139–40

Operation Cast Lead 33

organizational format, changing forms of 77–78

Organisation of Labour, The
(Blanc) 187

organized labour 71–72, 143

Ortiz, Roseangel 161

Orwell, George 30, 129, 208, 210

Owen, Robert 142

Palafox, Felino 204–5

Palamiotou, Anna 97

Palestine 25, 121, 179, 180

Palin, Sarah 181, 182

PAME (Greek trade union) 90

Papaconstantinou, George 91, 97

Papandreou, George 88, 96

Papayiannidis, Antonis 103

Paris 39; 1968 riots 46; revolution of 1848 171, 172

Paris Commune, the 1, 72–73, 84, 132

PASOK 89, 91, 98, 99

Paulson, Hank 110

Petrache, Ruben 203–4

Philippines: Calauan, Laguna Province 202–4; Estero de Paco, Manila 200–2; Estero de San Miguel, Manila 196–99, 205–6, 206–9; Gapan City 193–96; Makati, Manila 204–6; New People's Army 203

Philippines Housing Development Corporation 198

philosophy 29

phone hacking scandal 61, 148–49

Picasso, Pablo 127, 128, 132

Pimco 170

Poland 172

police car protester (USA) 4

Policy Exchange think tank 55

political mainstream, youth disengagement from 89–90

popular culture 65, 176

Porter, Brett 154, 155, 156

Port Huron Statement, the 129–30, 145

Portugal 92, 112, 188

postmodernism 28

poverty 121–22, 210, 211

Powell, Walter 77

power, refusal to engage with 3

power relations, erosion of 80–81

Procter & Gamble 23

propaganda of the deed 62

property 48

property bubble collapse 106–8

protectionism 124

protest, changing forms of 54–57

pro-Western dictators, support for 31

Prussia 191

Puente 165

Putnam, Robert 134

Quantitative Easing II 120–23

radicalization 33, 37, 47–48

radical journalists 149

Ramírez, Leticia 165

Real Estate Tax Authority Workers (Egypt) 19

Really Free School, the 1–2

@rebeldog_ath 96

reciprocity 77

Reed Elsevier 146

Reider, Dimi 179

Research and Destroy group 38–39

revolt, demographics of 66, 66–73

revolutionary wave 65

revolution, definition 79–80

revolutions: 1848 171–73, 173–75, 191, 192; 1917 173; 1968 173; 1989 173

Reynalds, Jeremy 159–60, 162–63

rice crops 195

Riches, Jessica, @littlemisswilde 41–42, 44, 45, 135–36, 138

Rimbaud, Arthur 132

River Warriors 201

Roads to Freedom
(Sartre) 129

Road to Wigan Pier, The
(Orwell) 208

Romer, Christina 117

Roosevelt, Franklin D. 169–70

Rove, Karl 30–31, 32

Rowan, Rory 54

Said, Edward 26–27

Said, Khaled 11, 148

@Sandmonkey 13

Sandra (Joy Junction resident) 160

Santa Cruz, University of California 37–39

Sarkozy, Nicolas 91–92, 98

@sarrahsworld 11–12, 14, 135

Sartre, Jean-Paul 129

Saudi Arabia 121

savings, and investment 107

Savio, Mario 4

SB1070 (USA) 164, 165–66, 166–67

self-esteem, and consumption 80–81

self-interest 111

self-reliance 68 self, the, social networks impact on 136–38

Sennett, Richard 68, 80–81, 131

Sentimental Education
(Flaubert) 171

el-Shaar, Mahmoud 22

Shafiq, Mohammed 20–22

Shalit, Gilad 179

shared community 84

Sharp, Gene 83

Sharpton, Al 184

Shirky, Clay 138, 139, 140, 146

Sinclair, Cameron 199, 208

Sioras, Dr Ilias 90–91

Situationist movement 46–47

Situationist Taliban 1

slum-dwellers 68; numbers 198

social capital 134

social democracy 145

social housing 199

Socialist International 19–20

social justice 177, 191, 192, 209, 210

social media 7, 74–75, 77; collective mental arena 137; lack of control 37; power of 34–35; role of 56; and the spread of ideas 151

social micro-history 173

social networks 77, 82; impact of 147; impact on activism 138–41; and the self 136–38

social-republicanism 187

solidaristic slum, the 207

Solidarity 42

‘Solidarity Forever' (song) 42

Soviet Union 28

Spain 66, 104, 105, 188

Spanish Civil War 209–10

species-being 143

@spitzenprodukte (art activist) 1

spontaneous horizontalists 44–46

spontaneous replication 55

Starbucks Kids 79

Steinbeck, John 153, 155, 159, 163, 164, 169

Stephenson, Paul 52

Stiglitz, Joseph 118

Strategy Guide
(Sharp) 83

Strauss-Kahn, Dominique 188

strongman threat, the 177–78

student occupations 37–39, 44–46, 53, 53–54

students: economic attack on 38; expectations 67–68; population 70

Sudan 25

Suez Canal Port Authority 19

Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) (Egypt) 18, 20

surveillance 148

swarm tactics 82–83

swine flu epidemic 9

Switzerland 123

syndicalism 175–76

synthesis, lack of 57

Syria 25

tactics 54–57

Tahrir Square, Cairo 6, 69, 89, 139; chants 191, 211; Day of Rage, 28 May 15–17; demonstration, 25 January 10–14; numbers 13; Twitter feeds 13; volunteer medics 20–22

Taine, Hippolyte 73

Tantawi, General 19

Tarnac Nine, the 189

Tea Party, the 117–18, 124–25, 180–81

tear gas 93–94, 100–1

technology 65, 66, 74–79, 85, 133–36, 138–39; and the 1848 revolutions 173–74

Tehran, Twitter Revolution 34–37

teleology 131, 152

Tent City jail, Arizona 164–67

Territorial Support Group 50

Thatcher, Margaret 106

@3arabawy 10, 22, 71

Third Way, the 31

Time
magazine 36

Tim (human rights activist) 1–2

Tim (Joy Junction resident) 160

Tocqueville, Alexis de 192

totalitarianism 147–48

toxic debt 110–11

trade wars 122, 124–25

transnational culture 69

Transparency International 119

Trichet, Jean-Claude 112

Truman Show, The
(film) 29

trust 57

Tunisia: Army 178; economic growth 119; inflation 121; organized workforce 72; revolution 10, 11, 25–26; unemployment 119

Turkle, Sherry 136

Twitpic 75

Twitter and tweets 3, 74, 137–38; #wiunion 184, 185; @Ghonim 13; @mehri912 34; @norashalaby 13; @rebeldog_ath 96; @Sandmonkey 13; Egyptian revolution 13, 14; importance of 135–36; Iranian revolution and 33–37; Madison, Wisconsin revolt 184; news dissemination 75; real-time organization 75; reciprocity 77; user numbers 135; virtual meetings 45

Twitter Revolution, Iran 33–37, 78, 178

Ukraine 177–78

UK Uncut 54–57, 58, 61

ultra-social relations 138

unemployment: America 159–63; Egypt 119; Spain 105; Tunisia 119; youth 66, 105, 119–20

UN-Habitat 199

Unison 57

United Nations,
The Challenge of Slums
198–99

United States of America: agriculture 154–56; Albuquerque 159, 159–63; Arizona 164–67, 183; armed struggle 181–83; Bakersfield, California 168–70; budget cuts 156, 161, 167, 170; California 168–70; campus revolts, 1964 4; Canadian River 159; cattle prices 156; collapse of bipartisan politics 116–19; culture wars 179, 180–84; current-account deficit 107; debt 118; deportations 166; devaluation 123; Dodd–Frank Act 167; the Dust Bowl 154–55; economic decline 183–84; economic growth 170; Federal budget 156, 161; fiscal management 183; fiscal stimulus 117–18; fruit pickers 169; hamburger trade 156; healthcare bill 180, 183; homeless children 160; homelessness 159–63; Indiana 116–17, 125; Interstate 40 157, 170; job market 161; Joy Junction, Albuquerque 159–63; Madison, Wisconsin revolt 184–87; minimum wage workers 158; the Mogollon Rim 163; motels 157–58, 162–63; the New Deal 169–70; Oklahoma 153, 153–56; Phoenix, Arizona 164–67; police car protester 4; political breakdown, 1850s 182–83; property bubble 106–8; Quantitative Easing II 120–23; radical blogosphere 184; the religious right 118; repossessions 168; Route
66
157–59; San Joaquin valley 169; SB1070 164, 165–66, 166–67; State Department 178; states' rights 183; student occupation movement 37–39; the Tea Party 117–18, 124–25, 180–81, 186; Tent City jail, Arizona 164–67; Tucson, Arizona 182; undocumented migrants 164–67; unemployment 159–63; wages 108; war spending 162; welfare benefits 162, 170

Unite Union 55

university fees 44, 47, 50, 54

urban poor 70–72

urban slums 191; Calauan, Laguna Province 202–4; clearance policies 198–99; education levels 207; Estero de Paco, Manila 200–2; Estero de San Miguel, Manila 196–99, 205–6, 206–9; Gapan City, Philippines 193–96; improvement policies 199, 205–6; internet access 207; labour force 208; living conditions 196–99; Moqattam, Cairo 6–10; population numbers 198

Vail, Theodore 74

Vanderboegh, Mike 181

Van Riper, Lieutenant General Paul 82

Venizelos, Evangelos 97–98

Vietnam War 129

virtual meetings 45

virtual societies 134

Vodafone 54–55

Vradis, Antonis 87–89

wages 108, 112

Walker, Scott 184

Walorski, Jackie 116–17

Walt, Stephen M. 26

war, threat of 178

Warwick University, Economics Conference 67–68

Washington Times
35

Wasim (Masry Shebin El-Kom delegate) 23

water supplies 194

wave creation 78

wealth, monopolization of 108

We Are Social 148

Weeks, Lin, @weeks89 184

Wellman, Barry 130

Wertheim, Margaret 136

White House, the 92

‘Why the Tunisian revolution won't spread' (Walt) 26

WikiLeaks 140

Wikipedia 46, 140

wikis 140–41

#wiunion 184, 185

Wobblies 176

Women's liberation 132

Woods, Alan 33

Woollard, Edward 43

working class 68, 71–72, 79–80, 145; culture 72; revolutions, 1848 172–73

World of Yesterday, The
(Zweig) 128

World Trade Organization 122

Yemen 25, 119, 121

youth 68; alienation 62; British 41–42, 44, 53–54; culture 70; disconnected 190; disengagement from political mainstream 89–90; radicalization 33, 37, 47–48; unemployment 66, 119–20

YouTube 75; Egyptian revolution on 11, 14, 15; Iranian revolution on 34, 35

Zamalek Sporting Club, ultras 16–17

Zapatistas 1

Zekry, Musa 5–6, 7, 23–24

Zola, Emil 191

Zweig, Stefan 128, 132–33, 152, 176

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