#GoHomeGota: Sri Lanka's Historic Mass Protests and a Ruling Family on the Brink with Dr. Sanjana Hattotuwa

This week, A'ndre speaks with Dr. Sanjana Hattotuwa, a leading Sri Lankan researcher and citizens journalist, on the recent mass protests that have taken ahold across the island nation against the ruling Rajapaksa Family. Sanjana, who was the Founding Editor of Sri Lanka's first and only award winning citizens journalism website Groundviews, discusses why protests against the strongman President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and brother Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa have been mobilized amidst Sri Lanka' worst economic crisis. Sanjana digs into the atmosphere of fear that the Rajapaksa brothers had created throughout the country, and why the protests are truly unprecedented in their dismissal of that fear in addition to their wide-ranging, island -wide, cross-cutting demography.  Sanjana, who is seen by many as the pre-eminent expert on social media's intersection with Sri Lankan politics, also provides his analysis on how social media has powered the protests, in addition to talking on why Sri Lanka has seen many of the negative repercussions of social media well before the United States had -- and why many in the West need to pay heed to these experiences.