I think this is another great example of a communtiy banding together to fight for what is right, and it again plays on the idea of social cohesion. One of the main points I noticed in this reading is that one of the most important factors in determining how much something would succeed depended on weak ties. The article explains weak ties as a friend of a friend. I can see how this would be the most important part to starting a movement or getting something done. Strong ties are just in between small groups of people and no one else will relate to that yet weak ties, everyone has friends that are not mutual friends with all of their friends. And with this, people from all over can hear about someone whose friend’s friend did this and all that, and it can create support from someone the person does not even know. Weak ties allow the information to flow through a community, so if you do not even know who the person is you can still be on their side. I think that applies for a lot of things. We talked about gay rights, well instead of mothers fighting for their gays sons rights, it is the mothers friends also fighting, which boosts up numbers of support, and that can be said for any cause, the more people you have supporting something, the stronger the fight will be!
Interesting thoughts, but where is your quote?