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...role digital communication played in this summer’s Green Movement in Iran suggests that tools like Twitter will increasingly acquire a pivotal role in breaking news reporting, said speakers at a talk hosted yesterday by Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society...
...There is a real potential to build a global movement around digital freedom,” said Brett Solomon, a speaker at the event who serves as a campaign director at online human rights group Avaaz.org and as executive director of the political Web site GetUp.org.au...
Ashraf mentioned the example of demonstrators involved with Iran’s Green Movement, which sought last summer to overturn election results that many viewed as potentially fraudulent...
...brought digital activists together who didn’t know each other but who had a common interest,” he said. “The Green Movement took a hydra-like approach to this, which is brilliant—everybody was a leader...
...another four who have mixed records, having voted in the past to ban so-called partial-birth abortions. Add to that the unknown quantity of some of the freshmen, such as Virginia's Mark Warner, Colorado's Michael Bennet and Alaska's Mark Begich. While the pro-life movement probably doesn't have the 60 votes needed to add a Stupak-like amendment to the Senate bill, abortion is an intensely personal issue for many politicians, one that could make or break their final votes...