Anwar has also been criticized for lashing out at the government in the foreign press and for trying to mobilize the masses against the state.

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Samuel Adams and Andrew Breitbart were instigators who could appeal to and mobilize the masses with effective and often-pathbreaking use of the communications instruments of the day.

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It is more productive in the long term, therefore, that it uses the hiatus provided by Annan to peacefully mobilize the masses inside Damascus and Aleppo, publish a manifesto that gains purchase from minority Syrians that sectarian violence will not rise in a post-Assad Syria, and bring on board the major religious, tribal and business figures inside country.

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At this point the revolutionary fever led by Hugo Chavez, to mobilize the "politically" available marginal masses of society coupled with the Iranian penetration in the region should raise an eyebrow not only among American government officials but also among those in Latin America.

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In the era of reality TV, social media fluency and the ever-growing list of figure heads, celebrities have more power than ever before to mobilize and engage large masses of people.

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