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 Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 9:24 pm Post subject: Where Have All the Protests Gone? Online. |
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Where Have All the Protests Gone? Online.
By Jennifer Earl
Sunday, February 4, 2007; Page B01
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/02/AR2007020201467.html
'"I haven't spoken at an antiwar rally in 34 years," Jane Fonda acknowledged to her fellow Iraq war protesters on the Mall last weekend. According to accounts of the day, many of the participants in this latest rally were of Fonda's generation, caravanning to Washington once more, with grayer hair, pressing their cause...'
'...Increasingly, the Internet has become the venue for protest -- the new Mall, so to speak -- where online-only activists deploy new technologies to challenge governments and corporations and promote causes mundane and sublime. I've done research, funded by the National Science Foundation, about the Internet and protests, and I've found that these efforts are transforming the way everyday citizens connect with and participate in activism and social movements.
Finding ways to participate on the Internet isn't hard. You don't even need to turn to an established activist group to create an online campaign. Web sites such as PetitionOnline.com allow anyone to create and manage a petition on the Web for free, and as their success stories suggest, online grass-roots politics can persuade powerful players to change their tune. Launched in 1999, the site has housed tens of thousands of petitions and collected more than 47 million signatures...'
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