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People always want to concentrate masses in the public space and, you know,
and that has been a dominant method in nonviolent action.
I just want young people, in particular, to explore
you know, alternative methods. For example, there are a lot of things has been done about
culture jamming ... flash mobs. I just joined a flash mob it was so fun.
Um, and flash mob in particular is really important because
when you have a lot of people gathering in the street
you risk the chance of being repressed by the security forces
because they saw you as a threat. You know, a bunch of young men, in the street, imagine that.
And, it's really easy for the protest to develop into riots, so that's really tricky.
Flash mob is important in this sense because
the period of time being used, being spent for protesting, is really brief,
so, you just, you know, be there and do your things and finish it.
And secondly, it can be really creative. You can dance.
You can incorporate theater into your actions. And, just recently I joined this flash mob
There was this campaign calling for a military coup, again, in Thailand.
Right, so, I, with this group in Thailand,
the leading activists have this idea of people mocking the campaign.
So, the campaign is titled as "Freezing Thai Democracy"
So, this flash mob campaign tries to say this:
Ok, if Thailand is already frozen, now we should get cold.
So people, amidst the heat and humidity in Bangkok,
people are asked to wear winter clothes.
And go to the monorail station, in this center part of Bangkok.
And, acting like they're really cold, freezing,
um, and, you know, because we don't want to get people in one area,
we try to get them moving. So we hop in the monorail.
Going to another station and our final destination was the ice cream place in this department store.
In order to emphasize that we're really cold now. So, that's the campaign I joined.