Sessions at SXSW Interactive 2012 about Freedom and Politics and Religion

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Sunday 11th March 2012

• Optimism: The Ultimate Revolutionary Act

  It takes optimism to launch revolutions, to believe that you can end decades of dictatorship and that you deserve freedom and dignity. Why are the people of the Middle East and North Africa - all too aware of the challenges they face in rising up to despots - more optimistic about their revolutions and uprisings than those outside the region - who all too often take for granted their own freedoms?

  • Freedom
  • Politics
  • Religion
  • revolution

  At 12:30pm to 1:30pm, Sunday 11th March

  In Ballroom EF, Austin Convention Center

  Coverage audio clip