The Revolution Will Be YouTubed?

We blogged in past about YouTube as a new instrument of political activity, and we're starting to see this emerge as recent videos have appeared mocking various presidential candidates. Closer to home, a recent protest at the Port of Tacoma against the deployment of Strykers from Fort Lewis to Iraq was videotaped and uploaded to YouTube, with accusations that the police acted inappropriately toward the demonstrators (which included some UPS students, including one who videotaped the incident and was briefly arrested). You can read an article about the event in The Nation, which has links to the videos and local coverage.