It’s the fence sitters that I hope to reach more than anyone else.
I like facebook as it’s enabled me to gather information from sources I might not otherwise be able to talk with. I am following a worker from an LGBTQI organisation in Kenya, for instance and the issues there are at crisis point. The UNHCR local officers are corrupt there and have ignored police abuses of refugees. Yet, when I go into my uni lectures for Sociology I keep hearing how they are fighting the good fight for rights in this area and it’s all academic back patting and the like.
Two very different sides to the same coin, it seems. We are encouraged to think of cosmopolitanism as a saviour for the huddled masses, but it’s not working on the ground in many places and thanks to social media, at least those who are dealing with it at the rough end can be heard and the evidence seen and shared, it’s not much atm, but it’s raising awareness nonetheless.
