He transformed himself into a mobile streaming video link to the Internet.
Connected through a wireless Internet access point, or WiFi, at a coffee shop, Parulis beamed protest footage to the Web from his Sony digital video camera.
"People are increasingly looking to the Internet for their news," Parulis said. "There's a perception, and it's based on a lot of truth, that the mainstream media has a bias of corporate values."
Technology has even given a voice to activists in countries without a tradition of free expression.
In Qatar, where US General Tommy Franks directs the war in Iraq, locals have used SMS to unleash anti-American protests and a boycott of American and British products.
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