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Oh, and not sure if this is the place to post this, but the Guardian has a good piece here on the role played by the Internet in organising peace demos 'n' stuff - including a useful list of sites:
quote:What is already clear is that the anti-war movement evolving out of the events of September 11 will be a very different one from that which gradually emerged to oppose the Vietnam war in the 60s and 70s. Time moves much more swiftly now and it was within hours of the terrible events that ad hoc groups from New Yorkers Say No to War to campus movements had formed.
Key to this speed has been the internet, which, of course, did not exist in the 60s. Then, the anti-war troops were rallied through flyers, through the old "underground press" from the Berkeley Barb to the Village Voice, through the Pacifica network radio stations and by word of mouth.
Now, countless emails and counter-cultural online news services operate to channel the movement. People seeking alternative views have only to click on to commondreams.org, laweekly.com, thenation.com, alternet.org, accuracy.org, nowarcollective.com or humanrightsnow.org to be presented with an array of information and opinion that 30 years ago would have taken weeks to assemble and disseminate.
This week's anti-war march in Washington, which will take place at noon on Saturday, has been fuelled and publicised through the internet, on sites like iacentre.org, as much as by any other method, not least because there has not been much coverage in the mainstream media of its existence. |
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