Sam's Story
Meet Samantha Goldman. The 19 year old NYU college student is heavily involved in organizations that promote peace, justice, and women’s rights. For the past year, Sam has worked as a grassroots organizer for “World Can’t Wait, Drive Out the Bush Regime”. Her role is to connect with students and raise awareness about the “the atrocities” that the Bush regime has committed.
Sam has used a variety of ways to get her message out to students. She has handed out flyers in front of her school, given talks on the radio, and used the Web. The Internet has allowed her message to spread far and wide, connecting her to people that she would have never been able to reach before.
Sam is adventurous, eloquent, and intelligent. She has no trouble going up to strangers and introducing herself. But the Internet has given her a way to get her message out to thousands of other like-minded students in a fast and convenient way. Social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook have allowed her to not only meet new people, but also to update people she knows on upcoming protests and events.
Her Facebook networking led her to B. They met for the first time at a protest against the war in
Now, together, they participate in protests and help organize others to join them in their causes.
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Continue to a video clip of a New York anti-war protest organized on Facebook
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