Self-Organized Protests of the Bailout

There has been a panoply of amazing activist sights and sounds in New York this week.  The opening sessions of the UN is always a circus shutting down traffic and bringing out protestors, particularly when the demagogue of Iran, Ahmadinejad, is speaking.  The Clinton Global Initiatives was a magnet for rock stars and CEOs. But the most exciting event of the week, for foks like me who are more than a bit obsessed with citizen participation was the self-organized protests on Wall Street last night.  Sparked and coordinated by email, blogs and Twitter, hundreds of people arrived with their home made signs (which don’t look so home made anymore with new technology, do they?) to protest the proposed bailout.