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From Glenn Reynolds

some thoughts from human-rights blog­ger Robert Mayer:

I just want to offer you and the tea party pro­test­ers some words of encour­age­ment. As some­one who has stud­ied (and blogged) protest as an act of demo­c­ra­tic rev­o­lu­tion and peo­ple power in the post-Soviet area, I know a lot about the dynam­ics of mass civil soci­ety unrest, gov­ern­ment tran­si­tion, etc…

What we are see­ing now is truly huge POTENTIAL for mas­sive civil unrest against the Amer­i­can gov­ern­ment gone lunatic with spend­ing. Real­is­ti­cally, 400‑1000 peo­ple at a protest, even at a dozen protests across the coun­try, will do noth­ing to change the minds of our idiot leaders.

How­ever, it cre­ates the POTENTIAL that each protest could have a mil­lion. The Orange Rev­o­lu­tion in Ukraine did not start out with two mil­lion peo­ple camp­ing in tents in down­town Kiev. It started with only a few hun­dred diehard activists.

Here is a list of places to see the results from today's Tea Par­ties, and to fol­low up on those activities.

PHOTOS

• Pereirav­ille — Orlando FL
• Un-Liberaled Woman — Chicago IL
• Michelle Malkin — a vari­ety of locations
• diggz6873 — San Diego — not a sep­a­rate set for now
• TCU­na­tion — St. Louis — not a sep­a­rate set for now
• jmdurbin — St. Louis
• Col­lec­tion from var­i­ous sites on TCOTTV
• chuck­de­vore — Wash­ing­ton DC
• Bull­neck — Wash­ing­ton DC — not a sep­a­rate set for now
• str8jacket_atl — Atlanta GA
• bigcat32 — Cleve­land OH
• jlilyea — Wash­ing­ton DC — not a sep­a­rate set for now
• she_knits_at_traff ic_lights' — San Diego — not a sep­a­rate set for now
• melanieann79 — Lans­ing MI — not a sep­a­rate set for now
• Pixel & Verse — Chicago IL — not a sep­a­rate set for now
• bour3 — Den­ver CO

• Tampa Bay Online
• Detroit Free Press
• St. Louis Post-Dispatch
• MSNBC
• WOWT Omaha NB
• KTRK ABC13 Hous­ton TX
• Con­tra Costa Times

• New Amer­i­can Tea Party
• Paja­mas Media Amer­i­can Tea Party Coverage
• Tips for Tea Party Orga­niz­ers on the Media
• Sun­light Foundation
• Cit­i­zens Against Gov­ern­ment Waste

• Twit­ter search
• RSS feed for cur­rent blog posts on Tea Party
• Nation­wide Chicago Tea Party
• Amer­i­can Tea Party
• Top Con­ser­v­a­tives

• San Fran­cisco Chron­i­cle pol­i­tics blog
• Huff­in­g­ton Post
• Tapped