TO THE BEST OF OUR KNOWLEDGE

PROMO FOR  "Protest 2.0"
*Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain, Yemen, Libya, Jordan, Oman, Syria  even
Madison, Wisconsin, and the list grows day by day. People are filling
the streets and demanding change. They want different things, but their
protests have one thing in common: they have no leaders. They're
organizing without organizations. In this hour of To the Best of Our
Knowledge,  Protest 2.0, how open source protesting is changing the
word.


PROGRAM RUNDOWN:  "Protest 2.0"

0:00 - 21:03        SEGMENT 1: (21:04)
            Today on To the Best of Our Knowledge, Protest 2.0   how
            open source protesting is changing the world. First, a
            little theoretical overview. How exactly does social
            media allow someone in say, Tunis, to overthrow their
            government?  Jim Fleming talks to Clay Shirky, author of
            "Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing without
            Organizations." "V for Vendetta" is the film for the
            internet's Anonymous movement. They're the hackers who
            brought down the sites of Master Card, Paypal and Visa
            after they shut off donations to Wikileaks.  Gregg Housh
            tells Steve Paulson about Anonymous. Steve wanted to know
            how Gregg could be the spokesperson for an anonymous
            organization.
                         
            Segment One Outcue:  "...PRI - Public Radio
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21:04 - 21:33  LOCAL OPTION with music bed (:29)

21:34 - 41:46       SEGMENT 2: (20:12)
            To the Best of Our Knowledge is produced in Madison,
            Wisconsin, which recently saw this new type of leaderless
            social media revolution in full bloom. It was in response
            to Governor Scott Walker announcing his controversial
            "budget repair bill" that would strip the collective
            bargaining rights of state employees. One of the sleep-in
            activists at the State Capitol was Christie Taylor. She
            kept a diary of her experiences. The Arab Spring caught a
            lot of people by surprise,but not a group called Global
            Voices. It's made up of more than 300 bloggers and
            translators around the world who are closely watching
            Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and blogs   ready to report
            when ordinary people become citizen journalists. As they
            did throughout the events of the Arab Spring. Ivan Sigal,
            Global Voices' Executive Director, tells Anne
            Strainchamps about it.

                         
            Segment Two Outcue:  "...PRI - Public Radio
            International."

41:45 - 42:14       LOCAL OPTION with music bed (:29)

42:15 - 53:00       SEGMENT 3: (10:45)
            All eyes have been on the Middle East for some months
            now. But al Qaeda has been conspicuous for its absence.
            Many have declared al Qaeda and other Muslim extremist
            groups irrelevant with regards to the Arab Spring.
            Irrelevant?  Anne Strainchamps posed that question to
            Romesh Ratnesar, Contributing Editor-at-Large at Time
            magazine.
                         
            Segment Three Outcue: PRI Audio Logo


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