From NPR’s Day to Day:
Text Message, MySpace Roots of Student Protests
by Sasha Khokha
by Sasha Khokha
Day to Day, March 29, 2006 Thousands of students walked out of classrooms across the nation on Tuesday to protest proposed changes to immigration law seen by many as a crackdown on illegal immigrants. In California’s Central Valley, protests are coordinated among remote agricultural towns by text messaging and MySpace chat rooms. Sasha Khokha of member station KQED examines the grass-roots protest organization and what the students are protesting against.
As a side note, Tom sent a bulletin about this story about 30 seconds before NPR.org became unavailable. Coincidence?
Posted on March 29th, 2006