Subject: Tunisia
From: Siri Vita <siri.vita@yahoo.com>
Date: 1/18/11, 19:36
To: barriticus@gmail.com

I've been reading your series on Tunisia ok dkos and tweeting it to my followers, many of whom assisted during the Iranian protests and helped with online Haiti relief efforts. I certainly hope your solicitations for involvement will garner some help in needed areas for this effort.

I'd like to see if I can contribute somehow. Could you please send me the IRC tutorial? Provided I can work through the instructions, I'd like to participate in the meeting tomorrow.

Is there anyone I should follow on twitter or friend on FB?
I'm @SLSiri on twitter - not a huge following but have had a stable 430+ for over a year now and I'm on 21 lists.

Siri Vita on Facebook and Siri Vita in Second Life where I can post to the Amnesty International, Peace Train, Social Justice and various other progressive groups to get info in front of a few thousand more people. I did all the Iran updates inworld for various groups and spoke at various events. I could do something similar for Tunisia in an effort to at least keep people informed beyond what they may be hearing in the media.

I am an advocate of non-violent resistance. A good model of what can be accomplished is Gene Sharp's From Dictatorship to Democracy. You may very well be familiar with it but if not, here is a link to the PDF.

http://www.aeinstein.org/organizations/org/FDTD.pdf

I look forward to finding out if there is some way I can contribute to this effort.

Thanks!
Siri