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Tweeting the G-20 Protests

By Jeralyn, Section Media
Posted on Wed Apr 01, 2009 at 09:48:50 AM EST
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The Guardian is providing coverage of the G20 protests on Twitter. In a related article, it reports:

Twitter switch for Guardian, after 188 years of ink

  • Newspaper to be available only on messaging service
  • Experts say any story can be told in 140 characters

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For more G-20 tweets than you will have time or the inclination to read, go here.

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    The protesters almost took... (5.00 / 1) (#1)
    by kdog on Wed Apr 01, 2009 at 10:14:19 AM EST
    the Bank of Scotland...I don't see why the police tried to stop them, the people of the UK own the damn thing now....if they want it torn down, it is their right as owners.  Link

    I wish protests would get underway (none / 0) (#5)
    by Inspector Gadget on Wed Apr 01, 2009 at 10:47:47 AM EST
    here, too.

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    but there protests and soon! (none / 0) (#7)
    by iceblinkjm on Wed Apr 01, 2009 at 11:22:46 AM EST
    http://www.anewwayforward.org/demonstrations/

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    140 words? (none / 0) (#2)
    by MileHi Hawkeye on Wed Apr 01, 2009 at 10:30:12 AM EST
    Heck, Oculus can do it in fourteen!  :0

    140 characters (5.00 / 1) (#3)
    by CST on Wed Apr 01, 2009 at 10:34:06 AM EST
    which could be 14 really long words - but is probably closer to 30.

    althouch I bet Oculus could do it in 14 characters.

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    Indeed... (none / 0) (#4)
    by MileHi Hawkeye on Wed Apr 01, 2009 at 10:41:02 AM EST
    ...I really can read!  I'll blame it on the lack of coffee, or that my mind is concentrating on how much snow we're going to get today.

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    Protest in USA (none / 0) (#6)
    by deetee on Wed Apr 01, 2009 at 11:04:25 AM EST
    For the person wishing for protests here:
    Check out a New Way Forward
    Protest planned for April 11

    http://www.google.com/search?q=A+New+Way+Forward&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozi lla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

    Aaron Sorkin - prescient again (none / 0) (#8)
    by jbindc on Wed Apr 01, 2009 at 03:29:26 PM EST
    In honor of the G-20 meetings, here is a scene from "The West Wing" ("Somebody's Going to Emergency, Someone's Going to Jail") discussing free trade.


    SACHS
    So, Toby?

    TOBY
    Officer?

    SACHS
    Since you're not really doing anything right now, I was wondering, what's this all about?

    TOBY
    It's about the WTO, Rhonda, the World Trade Organization.

    SACHS
    Well, I get that from the signs and the newspapers.

    TOBY
    The World Trade Organization's a group of 140 countries who have agreed to specific trade
    policies.

    SACHS
    So, what's wrong with that?

    TOBY
    Nothing's wrong with that.

    SACHS
    What would they say if I asked them the same question?

    TOBY
    They'd say the WTO benefits corporations and not people.

    SACHS
    Does it?

    TOBY
    Benefits both. [pause] Look at them.

    SACHS
    Yeah.

    TOBY
    Philistines.

    SACHS
    Take my nightstick and go kick their a$$.

    TOBY
    Yeah, make all the jokes you want but let me tell you something they claim to speak for
    the underprivileged but here in the blackest city in America, I'm looking at a room with
    no black faces. No Asians, No Hispanics. Where the hell's the Third World they claim to
    represent?

    SACHS
    Lot of Third-Worlders in the Cabinet Room today, were there?

    TOBY
    You're starting to bother me.

    SACHS
    That's `cause I'm armed.

    TOBY
    No, I like that. [pause] I'm going outside.
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