Personal stories can be compiled and distributed in many different ways.

Gracious living with roots deep in the past.

But then, the people from IRDNC proposed to Joshua

That's right.

Whereas Islamists and far right organizations, for decades, have been building demand for their ideology on the grassroots.

(Laughter)

Root leaf. I cook.

The root of a flower is as weak as a baby's finger.

How, literally, ungrounded that would make me feel.

To put it in context, there hasn't been a large grassroots protest movement in Japans since the 70's.

And the exciting thing is it's starting to grow.

It's not just a whole lot of other plants.

And a small group of thoughtful people changed that bay.

This century there's a shift.

And it's expanding.

So, despite these factors, that make change in North Korea seemingly impossible, as I mentioned, change is happening, already, and it is happening on a grassroots level.

This is my community.

I think there are a couple there are many reasons but a couple just to focus on briefly.

Community

We started something

I tried to tell the story through the work of caregivers.

Hollywood movies.

Not exclusive to these things, but in addition to them, is propagating a genuine demand for democracy on the ground.

And what I believe is missing is genuine grassroots activism on the ground, in addition to international aid, in addition to education, in addition to health.

Well, some people did.

(Applause)

This is a graph of the Ruby community.

He's spent all afternoon rooting up last year's spinach plants.

I want you to search high and low for a writer who's just right for this project. Leave no stone unturned.

One of the problems we're facing is, in my view, that there are no globalized, youth led, grassroots social movements advocating for democratic culture across Muslim majority societies.

Mary's face lighted up. Do you like roses? she said.

Now the next step that happened is within these communities.

So they spread out all the census data, and what they found, the guy described to me as a shocker, which is that in 1,997 out of 2,000 communities, women, young women, were making more money than young men.

It's actually happening now.

We're not all of them, of course, but TED is a community of opinion leaders.

Kingsfoil.

Sure enough, we all buy into that ... (Laughter)

I'm not trying to feed the habit.

He is a bridge figure.

The grassroots has been strengthened through the social power of sharing and they are challenging the old models, the old analog models of control and command.

And what I can do is take this body of answers, and out of this draft up a rough script for more advanced videos on specific topics that sub sets of the community care about

We must focus on building a solid grass roots movement.

And that's all the Bush administration's leadership, and it's all because of this bottom up pressure and the fact that the phones haven't stopped ringing from the beginning of this crisis.

The secret to this is underfoot.

He'd drive that car to a place like, uh Uh