CULTURE | Alternatives to Setting Oneself on Fire
Tuesday, June 21, 2011 at 07:43PM 
Banksy's flower thrower. By Wall in Palestine / CC.
WIT | Joe Tsali, HELO Magazine, June 2011
The tumultuous change we've seen ripple across the Middle East and North Africa this past year was set off by a series of activists protesting dictatorship by setting themselves on fire.
At least 25 people burned themselves. It went beyond the level of drawing media attention. By twenty, it was a non-story! Tens of thousands cheered the self-immolators for their bravery. Let's stop and think for a second. Rather than cheering their burning of flesh, isn't the more humane thing to remind people of the many alternatives?!
Ladies and gentlemen, if you are a poor, disenfranchised activist wishing to make a bold, memorable statement that can potentially cause a media storm and popular landslide without killing yourself or anyone else, we offer you here some joyful alternatives....Go here for the full list!
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