Last week when most San Diego residents where doing their commutes to and fro on the sprawling San Diego freeway system there was a group of protesters silently amassing at the border near Mexicali and Calexico. The objective was to create a 'no borders camp'... unfortunately things turned ugly, and many of the protesters were beaten and pepper-sprayed. Here is a link to noborderscamp.org and sandiego.indymedia.org to learn more.
The incident just shows how it is going to become increasingly difficult for San Diego residents to ignore the reality of the border... though there was virtually no press for this protest which involved several hundred people! I got the impression the press was intentionally left out of the loop precisely because–they are the press, and the organizers felt their interests at the border would just be reduced to sound bites by the media. They probably would have! Frightening, no?
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I wasn't clear... What is frightening is that...well...if you can't talk to the media, the press, then who can you talk to? How do people find out about important things that are going on in the world if no one reports anything to anyone? I think part of it is that the protesters seem too radical for main stream media to talk about their actions and beliefs... I guess it's too frightening to challenge conventional thinking. My question: Have societies, ever engaged in, even enjoyed, critical thinking? Did the Greeks?
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