Camera phones should be useful for activists in conflict zones. All ISM activists in Palestine definitely should have them.
E.g.,
***** So if you think you have a photograph worth looking at, if you found yourself in the right place at the right time, send it to BBC News Online.
If you want to send your picture from your mobile phone, dial 07970 885089. You can send them from any network or phone. Please send the large full size images (usually 640x480 pixels) taken by the mobiles. Otherwise they are too small to publish.
If you want to email it to us, send it to yourpics at bbc.co.uk
And don't forget to include your name and a bit of context about your snap.
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/talking_point/2732695.stm> *****
Combined with the concept of "flash mobs," camera phones should be especially great tools.
Postscript:
Bolivarians in Venezuela knew how to do political "flash mobs" before the idea became popular as a non-political pastime in rich nations:
***** Counter-Coup Gregory Wilpert, April 15, 2002 The Counter-Coup
. . . In practically all of the "barrios" of Caracas spontaneous demonstrations and "cacerolazos" (pot-banging) broke out on April 13 and 14. The police immediately rushed-in to suppress these expressions of discontent and somewhere between 10 and 40 people were killed in these clashes with the police. Then, in the early afternoon, purely by word-of-mouth and the use of cell phones (Venezuela has one of the highest per capita rates of cell phone use in the world), a demonstration in support of Chavez was called at the Miraflores presidential palace. By 6 PM about 100,000 people had gathered in the streets surrounding the presidential palace. . . .
<http://www.guerrillanews.com/human_rights/doc389.html> ***** -- Yoshie
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