Multitude movement against institutionalized elitism

In Russia, if you are working for some governmental agency you might get driving privileges. The traffic police can give you a permit to install a blue light on you car, which can also be a private car, and use it in case of emergency. The problem is that many other people (the ones with money and connections) can get this permit by bribing the police. In fact, there is so much abuse that it causes the traffic in large cities to be quite chaotic sometimes and, most importantly, IT KILLS. The population is fed up. With the help of modern tools for communication and coordination a massive popular movement (across the entire Russian empire) is rising against these elitist privileges, the blue bucket movement. Thousands of videos swarm the Internet showing people taping blue buckets on the top of their cars, to mimic the blue lights used by the elite. The police stops these cars to annoy the drivers but the law is not on their side, this aesthetic modification is totally legal. See more on the videos below.

The important lesson of this multitude action is that the awaken and empowered population doesn't take the abuse quietly anymore. The multitude is very creative in finding effective ways to communicate their discontent and to force the regime to change its practices. Every positive outcome of this type of action constitutes a reinforcing feedback, to further energize the multitude. We are witnessing the emergence of a new culture, the multitude movement is establishing itself as a dominant social force.

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Mr. Freeman

Russia was taken by storm by a series of anonymous and very mysterious cartoons. Their artistic merit is undeniable and their message is very controversial. See for yourself. This is a great example of how powerful the imagination can get when coupled with the new technology. Who said that a few cartoonists can't turn a political regime upside down?

See others (not so easy to find them all in English):

http://www.youtube.com/user/MrFreeMan0

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Internet and militia corruption in Russia

Members of the Russian militia, the equivalent of the police forces in north America, are using the Internet to fight corruption within their own ranks. The reaction of the institution is the classical one, dismissal, and in some cases false accusations followed by imprisonment. This demonstrates that the higher ranks of the Russian militia don't know how to deal effectively with the "multitude" social phenomena, which is good news. They don't seam to understand that their actions of reprisal will inevitably turn back to bite them, now in the age of the free and democratic media. Moreover, they also need to realize that these good militia man and woman can coordinate their efforts using the same digital technology and the Internet, and rally the support of the people, who already despise militia arrogance and corruption.

See the case of officer Alexey Alexandrovich Dymovsky.

A video stating to be by police major Alexei Dymovskiy from Novorossiysk in Krasnodar region recently appeared on Youtube. Alexey Dymovskiy accused his chiefs of corruption in a public speech addressed to the Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin: “our administration stimulates the corruption itself”. The reaction from Krasnodar territorial police chief Lt. Gen. Sergei Kucheruk was to dismiss Major Dymovskiy for slander, Ministry spokesman Valery Gribakin told Itar-Tass. (See source of this quote here.)

New development

http://en.dymovskiy.name/

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