Folks It seems to me that the demos last Saturday around the world, to the extent there is a connection among the organizing groups, was greatly, if not uniquely, facilitated by the Internet, and is therefore a historic event. Re the study mentioned by Gina, subject to further examination, I feel a distinction need to be made between organizing groups and individual participants marching in any street. What Internet has allowed, I presume, is a sense of worldwide mobilization among the organizers and the more involved folks in the various places. And I presume managing to impress the traditional media. One should also look at the motivational effect of the interaction across the net. We should be careful in any social implication to separate individual access and collective effects. One guy who knows of a demo through the net can drag in 100 people who will all rigthly said they came because that chap told them about the demo. On another fornt, if the Internet would not allow a huge number of people to know about the demos, would the "major channels" all over the world, cover the event. How much do we hear about demos in Argentina, or many other places, these days? Of course, I don't have, nor anyone has, yet "scientific" evidence of the Internet role in this event. I hope some will work on it. Before the terrorizers do get the net down for "antiUS activities". Michel PS: terrorwar, what a terrible pleonasm