Local Politics?

In class we talked about Mohamed Bouazizi and Khaled Saeed, who sparked revolution on a national scale with their individual actions. There are examples of people inciting change all over the world, but these are the two in our region that really stand out. We usually think about how our voice doesn't reach the "right" people when we're trying to change things - but who are those "right" people? In my opinion we have the responsibility to change what we feel is not right, and we have the voice to do it; in this way, politics are local as well as activism.

Individuals are the basis of every organization and state, and sometimes those in power forget about the individuals below them. This is when people start to really incite the change, not quietly when things start to go wrong, but loudly and with passion when things can no longer carry on the way they are. People don't change with just their individual voice, it takes others standing with them.

The argument against this is that there are a few people in a nation or region that really hold the reins, who control what happens. I think this true, that there are families, companies, organizations, etc. that really do the day-to-day running of things. I'm not saying that things are always controlled by individuals, I'm arguing that those individuals only come to the surface and thwart power when they are at the end of their rope. And getting things changed, no matter how spaced apart those changes are, is how people show their individual power.

Nations can interact with each other in a certain way for years and years, but when the people in one nation stand up and incite a revolution, the nations start interacting with others in a very different way. In this order individuals are changing things on a global scale, whether they realize the impact their actions have or not.