Strengthening our Activism.

Activism is action on behalf of a cause, action that goes beyond what is conventional

or routine. The action might be alternative radio, public meetings, rallies, or fasting.

For various causes. Activism has played a major role in ending slavery, challenging

dictatorships, protecting workers from exploitation, protecting the environment,

promoting equality for women, opposing racism, and many other important issues.

Activism has been present throughout history, in every sort of political system. Yet it

has never received the same sort of attention from historians as conventional politics,

with its attention to rulers, wars, elections, and empires. Activists are typically

challengers to policies and practices, trying to achieve a social goal, not to obtain

power themselves. There are many varieties of activism, from the face-to-face

conversations to massive protests, from principled behavior to the unscrupulous,

from polite requests to objectionable interference, and from peaceful protests to

violent attacks. Activism is not well defined, so different people often have somewhat

different ideas of what constitutes activism.

Activism and activists are sprouting each day in the Ethiopian politics platform,

particularly within the diaspora community for the Obvious cause. Ethiopia has been

under a brutal minority rule for the last twenty five years. The current dictatorial

regime has committed numerous or countless blunt breaches against basic human

rights. The activism within the diaspora community has played a vital role in terms

of shading a light over the regime brutality. However, the question still remains, how

and why the dictatorial regime is still in power in spite of the clear atrocity it has

displayed plainly? I think the regime is still in power because of two major reasons:

1- The absolute full control the regime has over the governmental structure

(Economy, Military and intelligence)

2- The ongoing help from the international community in terms of aid and/or loan as

well as other diplomatic supports, help the dictatorial regime in Ethiopia to stay in

power.

We Ethiopians in the diaspora community has to do a lot more to put pressure on the

international community to completely hamper all the support the dictator regime

enjoys at large. The aid money and diplomatic boost the regime indulge are basically

the oxygen for the regime to survive particularly in time like this whey by the regime

has totally lost its legitimacy locally. So, how can we snatch the oxygen from this

barbaric dictator? Is a one Million dollar question for the Ethiopian diaspora

community. To address this question effectively, we have to know why the

international community supports this dictatorial regime? We can have various

answers based on different political analysis. But all the answers finally can be

summed up to one point- Stability. The main reason behind the ongoing help from