6 från Jena

Yet this will be a civil rights protest literally conjured out of the\nether of cyberspace, of a type that has never happened before in\nAmerica -- a collective national mass action grown from a grass-roots\nword-of-mouth movement spread via blogs, e-mails, message boards and\ntalk radio. [...]

As formidable as it is amorphous, this new African-American\nblogosphere, which scarcely even existed a year ago, now includes\nhundreds of interlinked blogs and tens of thousands of followers who\nwithin a matter of a few weeks collected 220,000 petition signatures --\nand more than \$130,000 in donations for legal fees -- in support of six\nblack Jena teenagers who are being prosecuted on felony battery charges\nfor beating a white student.