From Syria comes an interesting story about the resilience of the demonstrators demanding change in that country. Much of the organising for demonstrations had been done by young people using the internet. As in other countries that have witnessed the uprisings of the Arab Spring, Facebook and Twitter have been the instruments of the Syrian demonstrations.
Opponents of the regime are using their mobile phones to organise and broadcast images of the regime brutality and ruthless. Images that would otherwise remained unseen outside Syria. The Syrian authorities have been doing it best to shut down access to the internet. Their latest step is to cut off power to “restive” parts of the country in the hope that the organisers would be unable to charge their cell phone batteries. But for every problem, there is a solution. The demonstrators and citizen journalists of Syria to whom we owe most of the news coming out of the country these days have found a way out.
One Syrian activist described the ingenious ways they have devised to recharge their cell phone batteries.
"We have a glass of water and two Duracell batteries. We put it for one hour in this glass, then we use the USB and we put it just in the water. And... that gives us two hours or three hours charge to talk."
I initially wondered if this was scientifically possible but my colleagues who have better knowledge of Chemistry that I do say it is possible.
Talk about recharging a revolution.
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