Egypt's Facebook Revolution: Wael Ghonim Thanks The Social Network

Egypt's Facebook Revolution: Wael Ghonim Thanks The Social Network

"I want to meet Mark Zuckerberg one day and thank him [...] I'm talking on behalf of Egypt. [...] This revolution started online. This revolution started on Facebook. This revolution started [...] in June 2010 when hundreds of thousands of Egyptians started collaborating content. We would post a video on Facebook that would be shared by 60,000 people on their walls within a few hours. I've always said that if you want to liberate a society just give them the Internet. [...]" Full Article Here

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A Facebook message that sparked Egypt protests - Hindustan Times

A Facebook message that sparked Egypt protests - Hindustan Times

A Facebook message that sparked Egypt protests - Hindustan Times

Asmaa Mahfouz told Al-Mihwar TV that the first activity was on Facebook.

“Yes. I was angry that everybody was saying that we had to take action, but nobody was doing anything. So I wrote on Facebook: 'People, I am going to Tahrir Square today'. This was a week before January 25."

“I wrote that I was going to demand the...rights of my country. I wrote that I was 26 years old...,” the Middle East Media Research Institute quoted her as saying.

Asmaa said: “Whenever we talked to the people and told them to express their views, they would say: “Who can we talk to? We will be thrown in prison and tortured.’”

Wisconsin Questions: How long can this go on? Which side are you on? | blue cheddar.

Wisconsin Questions: How long can this go on? Which side are you on? | blue cheddar.

"And “this” has transformed itself from protests at the Capitol building to hundreds of protests around the state of Wisconsin, recalls against 8 Republicans Senators (1 of which has already turned in its required signatures), and a come-from-behind candidate who has won an election she was not wagered to win 6 months ago: Joanne Kloppenburg our newest Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice.

Scott Walker is next. Enough votes were cast in yesterday’s usually sleepy spring election to recall our governor. This would be only the 3rd time it will occur in U.S. history."