Why You Should Use Social Media To Spread The Word Of Venezuelan Protests

Being from South America and accepting lived in Miami, FL I acquire been accepting a lot of calls about my “involvement” in the Venezuelan cause.

“Meli but this has been blow for years, why are you accurate such a big accordance about it now?”

“Meli they’re just experiencing what Cuba did in the 60s, advancing repression, censorship, communism, and corruption of beastly rights”

“Meli this has been blow in abounding added countries too…Venezuela is no different”

Or my favorite:

“You’re not even Venezuelan.”

Lets alpha by talking about this little allowance we acquire declared the Internet. It makes it simple for me to “care.”

What did Cuba not acquire in the 60s? The Internet.

Why should we adversity if this has been blow in added countries for years? Because a little window now to the angel of what has/is/will acquire to arise in countries with abject governments, if we don’t do something—is a window nonetheless. Whether it’s 50 years too astern or adapted on time. This isn’t a animosity of who has suffered the a lot of or who deserves the a lot of attention. On this earth, in a free society, we abatement or dispatch together.

Why should we adversity if we are not Venezuelan? The a lot of adored activity anyone anytime gave me was my education. I am a amateur seeing added accepting denied the basal aliment that I acquire been accustomed and dying because all they ambition is advocacy on campus and some goddam toilet paper.

Why am I accurate such a big accordance about it now? I am brought to tears of joy that my administering and advertisement online autograph on Facebook is “big enough” to be brash an act. That is admirable to me. The achievement that we can use Facebook to flood the newsfeeds of others with allusive admonition is admirable to me.

We can and do achieve ourselves matter. My freakin iPhone is just as able as any gun the Venezuelan armed ammunition ascendancy because I acquire a allocation button. They can shoot one bullet; I can shoot a video to complete amounts of people. The accepting demography pictures and videos and overextension them on agreeable media are stronger than any government official. They acquire an audience, they can adeptness publics and they acquire us. The Venezuelan government disabled video and angel administering on their Twitter.  We are still exchanging admonition with added countries through Facebook, YouTube, Vimeo, Instagram and abounding others. We bulk so abounding added than we realize.

Do you apperceive what it bureau that none of us had to be in Venezuela to get a annual of a advancing official acid at students? That CNN couldn’t get that chance but anyone my age could and did. That I acquire credible the faces of Venezuelan soldiers via Facebook? That there are no rules abut that? That there is a anchor to even adeptness anyone in a adapted country?

This is the boyhood of a country affronted to abide like the boyhood of a country, not warriors. The day that organized groups of people, all-around in peaceful protests for a bigger life, are not “loud” abounding for the angel is the day commercialism dies. And that day adeptness arise for Venezuela. They did their allocation and now it’s our turn. We owe it to them to beforehand the word.

Please beforehand whatever article, video, image, or cachet you can about the protests blow in Venezuela. We adduce Facebook advocacy settings and absorption controls bigger than any government. Agreeable media will consistently win abut censorship. Don’t apologize anytime for speaking for those who can’t.

How abounding times did you apprehend about something because you saw it on agreeable media? Tell me I’m wrong.