Tag: ONLINEACTIVISM

Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, who's been in power since Anwar El-Sadat's assassination in 1981, is up for re-election next year. Opposition groups in Egypt have been unable to gain any real political power over the past thirty years, but there may be hope for executive change in Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei, former Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and Facebook may turn out ...

The streets of Bogota, Colombia have erupted in protest over the killings and kidnappings perpetrated by the Marxist rebel group Farc. A conservative estimate put the number of protesters at 500,000 -- an impressive number by any standards -- but even more impressive when you consider the whole thing got its start on a little social networking site called Facebook. Less than a month ago, the ...