{"article":{"id":247471,"heading":"BTL:New Confidence Required to Overcome Americans' Political Passivity","author":"Distributed by Squeaky Wheel Productions http","created":"2011-08-21 11:02:29","modified":"2011-08-21 11:02:29","last_modified":"Sun, 21 Aug 2011 18:02:29","article":"<p>New Confidence Required to Overcome Americans' Political Passivity  <br><br> Interview with Bruce Levine, psychiatrist and author, conducted by Scott Harris  <br>  <br>   <br>  <br> Throughout world history, there are countless examples of how an activated and engaged group of citizens have banded together to successfully effect political and social change. Today, across the Middle East and North Africa autocratic governments and monarchies are being challenged as never before by large numbers of people who have taken to the streets and risked their lives to demand change. Tens of thousands of people in Spain and Greece have risen up to resist the harsh economic austerity measures demanded of them by the European Union and the continent's largest banks.   <br><br> Story continues <br>  <br> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.btlonline.org\/2011\/seg\/110826cf-btl-levine.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.btlonline.org\/2011\/seg\/110826cf-btl-levine.html<\/a><\/p>\n","contact":"mail(AT)btlonline(DOT)org","link":"Between the Lines c\/o Squeaky Wheel Productions P.O. Box 110176 Trumbull, CT 06611","address":"Between the Lines c\/o Squeaky Wheel Productions P.O. Box 110176 Trumbull, CT 06611","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"Interview with Bruce Levine, psychiatrist and author, conducted by Scott Harris","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2011\/08\/247471.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}