Your Cell Phone Can Start a Revolution. Use It. Jorge Ramos - Fusion
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The powerful are not invincible. These days everything we need to rise up against dictators, abusive authorities or inept presidents is right in the palm of our hands. The smartphone has made this century conducive to rebellion. Our phones allow us access to the most important weapon of all: the truth.

“Everybody is an investigative reporter now with a phone,” the director Spike Lee told me in a recent interview. His forthcoming documentary, “I Can’t Breathe,” focuses on the case of Eric Garner, an African-American man who choked to death in New York last July as police officers tried to restrain him. As he was being held on the ground, Garner repeatedly told the officers that he was having trouble breathing. His death was caught on video by a young man with a smartphone. Were it not for the video, it is unlikely that we would have learned much about this example of abuse. Lee thinks that the growing use of phones to document social injustice is more than a trend. “This isn’t going away,” he said. “It’s powerful.”

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