This has been headline news in my part of the world -- Chinese mobile phone users have been organizing a demonstration against a chemical plant in the city of Xiamen recently. They swarmed the streets and the city government today with the unconfirmed number of protestors being somewhere between 10,000 and 20,000
======= Two reports from yesterday: SMS protest puts plant on hold 2007-5-30 12:47 http://www.24.com/news/?p=worlda&i=536466 China city suspends chemical plant after uproar Move comes after angry residents joined in opposition through a flood of mobile phone text messages. May 30, 2007 Reuters http://news.asiaone.com.sg/a1news/20070530_story21_1.html ======== A blog from today (June 1) about the protest -- somehow the video server is always busy, so I haven't viewed it: http://www.danwei.org/blogs/xiamen_demonstration_today_liv.php A series of pictures from today's demonstration http://www.flickr.com/photos/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/sets/72157600293959345/?page=2 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mobile-society" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mobile-society?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
