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After this Tuesday morning was passed by 15 votes in favor and only 4 against, the first instance to give way to project power plant in Punta de Choros, which includes the construction of power stations, which use sub-bituminous coal and bitumen as primary fuel, generated a total rejection not only of the inhabitants of the area to be affected in their environment, but nationally.
The first demonstration was in the quartermaster of the Region Coquimbo, which eventually brought about a thousand people.
But the important fact is that the information ran quickly through social networks, where "thermal" appeared among the topics in Twitter world, the platform advocates Punta de Choros grouped chaopescao.cl, environmentalists, journalists, and actors twiteros Leonor Varela and actresses, among others, began to organize in an almost improvised, calling for demonstrations across the country, calling the community to show their rejection of what they consider an ecological attack.
was so they held demonstrations in various cities such as Antofagasta, Valparaiso, Melipilla, La Serena, Talca, Concepción, Temuco, Puerto Montt, Coyhaique and Santiago, the city where the call exceeded 4 thousand people.
The power of social networks
As its name suggests, social networking sites are virtual communities structure aimed to interconnect and communicate virtually the subject in question with thousands of users.
This is possible thanks to the Internet, the new social component that brings together a number of elements that allow free expression, including political demonstration. As the virtual world appropriated new forms of disseminating ideas and thoughts in a quick and easy, even more effective political discourse, is thought to establish cyberspace as the best means he could bring together all the convictions in a single channel of information.
As it could be otherwise, the idea grew, it became known, received more public support and therefore it was established that, from now on, citizens could not overcome the normal resistance expression, and was aware of the power he had with the acquisition and virtual world skills at hand. Systems forums, chats, organizations of all types that had Web sites, all of which resulted in a convergence of points of view that gradually became what is known as "constituency-mail."
In this way, and the emergence of new forms of expression online, like Twitter, social networks icieron possible full building power centers of the opinion that from a screen and an Internet connection. Call
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The worldwide demonstrations against the invasion of Iraq in 2003 were called for a platform that ran simultaneously throughout the world, being the first truly global nature of the story. His stated motivation was to prevent the invasion of Iraq.
Local circumstances allowed its persistence over time, especially in the United Kingdom, United States, Spain and Italy, where they serve as attachment flag against the governments in power. In the latter two countries may have contributed to the electoral roll that broke all predictions of the polls.
In April this year, the call to support the English judge Baltasar Garzon was through Facebook, joining thousands of world citizens who supported him.
One of the most recent of these large political demonstrations by the Iran took place in cyberspace where people expressed dissatisfaction with the reelection of President abuses and hundreds of blows to human rights.
In Chile, meanwhile, the issue of thermoelectric just begun. Social networks are organizing through Twitter with a call for 28 in Santiago on Saturday to demonstrate against.
also other groups on Wednesday called to turn off the lights for five minutes, from 8:00 in the afternoon.
With these events, many analysts believe that cyberspace is a new positioning in culture, with leads that at the moment is impossible to predict. In Chile, perhaps what happened with the protest at the headquarters of Punta de Choros is the beginning of a new way to call the citizens. Let's wait.
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