Comments on: Tactic: Egyptians Use Facebook to Organize Strike

By: Egypt’s bloggers - not all digital democrats | Democracy Digest

Egypt’s bloggers - not all digital democrats | Democracy Digest — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:58:42 +0000

[...] political disengagement. The authorities cracked down as young bloggers used the social network to mobilize support for a strike by textile workers, an initiative that spawned the April 6 [...]

By: Egypt’s bloggers’ ‘cute-cat’ digital activism | Democracy Digest

Mon, 26 Jan 2009 16:24:00 +0000

[...] of political disengagement. The authorities cracked down as young bloggers used Facebook to mobilize support for a strike by textile workers, an initiative that has spawned the April 6 [...]

By: Support independent media, ‘cute-cat’ digital activism | Democracy Digest

Mon, 26 Jan 2009 16:21:35 +0000

[...] of political disengagement. The authorities cracked down as young bloggers used Facebook to mobilize support for a strike by textile workers, an initiative that has spawned the April 6 [...]

By: The Blogger Neighborhood: Meet the DigiActive Team « SocialButterfly.

The Blogger Neighborhood: Meet the DigiActive Team « SocialButterfly. — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 01:26:04 +0000

[...] are always fun to write about. Whether it be about young Egyptian activists using Facebook to organize a country-wide strike, about Jamaican gay rights activists who use blogs and the internet to fight [...]

By: The World A.T. Ways » In which online social networks inform, empower, and educate

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 03:41:13 +0000

[...] such as Harvard’s Internet and Democracy Project, the Leadership Council for Human Rights, Digiactive: A World of Digital Activists and Journeyman Pictures, thus reaching a global [...]

By: Theory: Poverty & Digital Activism | DigiActive.org

Theory: Poverty & Digital Activism | DigiActive.org — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:13:01 +0000

[...] mounting brilliantly creative and successful campaigns for social and political change like the strikers in Egypt using Facebook, the Help Fouad campaign in Morocco, and anti-FARC activists in [...]

By: Pros & Cons: Egypt activists rely on Facebook - what if it’s blocked? | DigiActive.org

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:57:24 +0000

[...] we wrote in a previous post, Facebook has been immensely important in young Egyptian’s efforts to achieve more [...]

By: » DigiActive.org » Action Alert: Free Esraa and her Companions

» DigiActive.org » Action Alert: Free Esraa and her Companions — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 02:28:02 +0000

[...] April 6th we covered the story of Egyptian activists using a Facebook group, 6 April – اضراب عام [...]

By: » DigiActive.org » Campaign: Overview of the Egyptian General Strike

» DigiActive.org » Campaign: Overview of the Egyptian General Strike — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 03:01:08 +0000

[...] of Campaign: As mentioned in our previous post, Egyptian activists organized a massive nation-wide strike on April 6. In our last post we talked [...]

By: » DigiActive.org » Get Involved: DigiActive Top 50 Web 2.0 Challenge

» DigiActive.org » Get Involved: DigiActive Top 50 Web 2.0 Challenge — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:05:17 +0000

[...] at DigiActive is figure out how to use otherwise innocent commercial online platforms like YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter for activism. However, there are tons of interactive online tools out there and we [...]