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Message: <blockquote data-quote="spnadmin" data-source="post: 114438" data-attributes="member: 35">Re: From Children to Adults-1984 Anti-Sikh Riots Victimsvikram jiOne way that our forum helps is by broadcasting information. It is the main purpose of any forum -- to raise the level of communication by hosting information and dialog, so that more people, both members and visitors, are better educated.Activism has many levels. Getting the information "out into the public domain" is one of those levels. People have to know before they can decide whether they can take action.So that is our contribution. SPN is engaged in this way. We can trigger consciousness in the unconscious, and we can provide information and insight for those who are already conscious and want to know more. The next levels of advocacy - actively working toward change on the ground is more difficult for any forum to implement - not impossible - but certainly more difficult and often impossible given the resources at hand to do so. The best way to become ineffective is to try to do everything for everyone and in so doing get nothing accomplished. We have to decide what we can do well and do it well. We have to use our existing resources for realistic goals.It seems to me that what we can do is "host" discussions on a variety of difficult themes. And we do. We could do more. We could organize and energize action committees in cyber-space. But we have to realize that we are a cyber-community, and people on the ground have to take the next steps after we inform, host, discuss and organize.</blockquote>

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