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To: Snowshoe who wrote (74250)	7/29/2012 7:11:41 PM
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The officialdom really seems off balance... Taking It to the Street in China rendezvous.blogs.nytimes.com On Saturday, thousands of angry residents of Qidong, a seaport town near Shanghai, decided they weren’t going to take it anymore. They took to the streets to protest the government’s plan to dump wastewater from a paper mill into their harbor, as my colleague Jane Perlez reported. They ransacked municipal offices, overturned cars and fought with the police. Striking photos of the unrest are here... Qidong China Protest Photos “These demonstrations represent a new grassroots force made possible by social media tools such as Weibo (China’s Twitter), the messenger service QQ and online forums,” said Monica Tan, a Web editor with Greenpeace East Asia, writing on The Diplomat blog. “These protests can be characterized by how swiftly they are organized and the way they happen outside more formal structures like unions, NGOs or political parties.”