by Wendie Hansen with Kaleel Sakakeeny
Ralph Waldo Emerson had this to say about the Old North Bridge in Concord, MA, a suburb of Boston:
“By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
Their flag to April's breeze unfurled,
Here once the embattled farmers stood
And fired the shot heard round the world.”
But what does the bridge in Concord, the home of the American revolution for independence, have to do with revolutions in Tahrir Square, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, and all places where the struggle for fre
