Noel’s Blog

The few people who read this blog are no doubt aware of how frustrated I’ve been that there has been more attention paid to Twitter than to the youth risking their lives to affect change in Moldova.  The debate over whether to call the protests the “Twitter” or “Grape” revolution, despite the fact that the communist government seems sadly is entrenched as ever, focused less on the the youth trying create an open society in Moldova than it has on the tools they have used to communicate with one another.    The fact that their was limited cell phone coverage in the Piata Marii Adunari Nationale, where the protests took place, was only mentioned after the fact.  That would-be organizers admitted themselves that only about 250 people they had contacted showed up at… Continue reading