Unfortunately, I was unable to attend Bill Ayers speech yesterday, but I have read a lot about him. Your question about how to apply non-violent direct action to face tanks is really interesting. I think that his main point is that the awareness of what is going on in the world is the starting point for being socially active. I agree that the only way to respond to injustice is non-violent direct action and activism, because it is the best way to build something really stable and based on true consensus.
I also think that we should distinguish among completely different circumstances: activism and non-violent direct actions are the voicing "tools" in democracies during normality periods. In Libya nothing seems to run normally, therefore I think that those "tools" should be adapted to the particular current circumstance.
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