1M Text Messages Protest China Plant


	1M Text Messages Protest China Plant

dorine

5-31-2007 10:13 AM

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china, text message, protest, chemical, pollution

dorine says:

New way to protest!

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5-31-2007 2:54 PM

jussyRider

Go you people!!! Love it!

6-1-2007 5:29 PM

tidbit2

China'sexport-driven manufacturing industries
must be all that ginseng and aphrodesiacs frogs toes etc.

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