Posts Tagged protest
Motivated+Connected=Activists
The Associated Press reports on the anti-Obamacare town-hall protests:
The emerging protest movement is almost the mirror image of the grass-roots campaign that helped sweep Obama into office by pulling in people who’d never been politically active. This time Obama is seeing the other side of what can happen when people are motivated, connect over the [...]
First Iran, Now China
Social networking sites Twitter, YouTube are a “force for revolution,” says the New York Daily News, noting that China is the latest country where social media is both helping organize anti-government protests and helping get the news to the outside world past government censors.