Tactic: Pakistanis Use SMS and E-mail to Mobilize

Written by Mary on December 21, 2007 – 6:27 pm -

Although President Musharraf ended the state of emergency on December 15, this video is still worth a look. It recounts how Pakistani’s used SMS and e-mail to organize protests against the state of emergency, which was declared November 3rd.

Here’s a key quote from Semar Benala, a protester: “Actually, we do this through e-mail, through SMS’s, because even all the television channels have been shut down, but because we want to bring about change we are, like, trying out other mediums of communication.”

click the image to be taken to the Daily Motion site.

pakistani_protesters.jpg


Tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,
Posted in Asia, Mobile Phones, Tactics | No Comments »