activist co-founder of quit pink and the fair kid at the secret global exchange medea benjamin foamed of course 5 of code pink welcome to the alex salmond show nice to be on with you out medea this summer season the extinction rebellion in london we've seen the protests and more school about elections the julies wrong i'm in france the spectacular protests in hong kong in recent weeks are we living through an age of protest are we back in 1968 or is it just the social media everything is happening across the world i think the protests around the climate are new and are global and are a huge and they're only going to grow as this is a planetary issue that affects us all but then in some other areas i think we're seeing less for example we saw in the middle east all of the uprisings around the arab spring and that spread from one country to another but now that it looks like the results of those were not so positive i think that's put it damper on some other protests in the middle east for example so i think we're constantly seeing ups and downs in protests but around the climate this i

result of protest that's how it began protest and then eventually parliamentary change we ask medea benjamin the celebrated american political activist what exactly is going on today are we seeing an international wave of discontent with established political structure is akin to the 1960 s. or is this impression just a feature of the modern social media world with a banner held aloft in hong kong goes viral before you can see a presidential tweet i think social media can be. to mobilizing like we see in hong kong but i also think that before social media we had enormous protests we had mass protests around civil rights issues in the united states when there was no bar no twitter no instagram but 1st let us take a look at your reaction to our a series on motor programs which collectively registered over $800000.00 viewers on alex's facebook page alone but it's more than the entire population of q-tips smallest member state clearly the tiger economy of this tiny island is attracting a great deal of interest internationally for us to hear from kill he says find our french holiday apartment unp