Internet: The place where the activism gains voice and power.

          If you have been connected with anything in the web you certain know what does hashtag mean, don't you? Have you ever watched an video on youtube about a campaign that you felt interested about? Or followed a community on facebook about "Save the Amazonia" or "Help people from Africa". You probably don't know, but you are part of what Stone sets as activism, the one where you can make the difference without move you trommel from your chair, just one click, just 140 characters, and you are welcome to change the world. On the other hand what we have seen is that it actually works, not necessarily how it's defined, but it's a beginning of something that can assume big proportions.
           Does everyone know "Anonymous"? They are one of the most famous adherents of the cyberactivism today, they are also responsibles for what the authorities call web terrorists, since they've been invading websites of governments and corporations as a form of pacific protest. They also like to invite people to go into their ideas by showing some informations about the manifest. 

        I would show a lot of examples of protests that took to the streets, which had the support of the population, and that started on the internet with a simple sharing of information, a sharing of opinions and dissatisfaction of people did not even know what they're protesting against, so the idea of ​​entering Malcolm Gladwell of real activism. However I want to focus in something that I really know. The protests against the World Cup Brazil 2014 that took place in the whole country and reverberated around the planet in June 2013.
   The event was known as "#OGiganteAcordou" (#TheGiantWokeUp) or "#VemPraRua"(#ComeToTheStreets"). As the hashtags denounces, the event began in social networks, sharing photos, videos, and ideologies and quickly millions of people took the  Brazilian streets, asking for their rights, fighting against the corruption, and complaining against the World Cup. The hashtags came from two Brazilians' advertisements for the World Cup actually, but they had their meaning changed to fit with the idea of the protest, that the Brazilian people had finally awake and went to the streets to fight for their rights.

             Without an apparent leader, the protests continued throughout the month of June enlisting the violent reaction of the police and the army that was placed by the government on the streets for the suppression of acts which would later be considered by a bill in the Brazilian National Congress as terrorism.  In 06/07/2013, 5 thousand people were protesting in front of the National Congress against the corruption, when they decided just climb the ceiling of the Congress and stay there until the government listen to their requests. No one did, but the image is today making history around the world as a proof of millions of people, organizing themselves for a common cause, sharing opinions, discussing goals, and  acting can change the world better and faster than just share information by facebook or twitter, or go to the streets, fight against everybody and don't let anyone knows about what are we doing. The internet  is a gun. Has a lot of people around there able and wanting to change the community, the country, or even the world, but they don't know how, if those people were able to meet each other by internet and then share opinions, we may have a solution. We weren't able to stop the World Cup, but now our government knows for sure what we are able to do, they know that we are awake, and we aren't blind anymore. Tomorrow it'll be bigger.