All this week protests against HR4437, a malformed immigration bill, sprouted across California with no visible means of support. Students emptied high school and junior high campuses to march in the streets. No one organized these protests in the traditional activist manner. They were spontaneous real time grass roots events driven by cell phones, instant messaging, and Internet blogs. Let the reader understand.
School administrators pleaded with students to remain on campus and set up stations in school libraries for writing letters to congressmen. Meanwhile the communication savvy students have bypassed these traditional channels and published mountains of data on the Internet in a publication cycle measured in minutes. Legacy media droned on about the students getting an ad hoc civics lesson. The media have not yet come to grips with the fact that democracy has undergone an evolutionary sea change while we were gawking at the marchers. It will be weeks before they get it.
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