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Myself as justice league members and those involved in the movement is we do have a direct connection to history. our founder is harry bellefonte. so we are informed of what the civil rights movement did. some of us are trained in the methodology of dr. king. and so we're taking the protest rights. they came out in large numbers. those are the lessons we're taking from the previous movements but using different organizing tools that allows us to organize. for us the way in which the members of the justice legal ve niz so qui galvanize so quickly, we were texting each other and informing each o...

Whoever we are making promises. we are seeing people who make the conversations long before detroit. >> you think it might be brought up in the future? >> for sure. >> meg, your headline is more spiritual, share with us. >> well, is there a hash tag to heaven? we have had the vatican this week saying they were going to offer indulgences to people who followed the pope through social media during his visit to rio. and i just was wondering if that brings a whole new level of power to facebook and twitter and what people actually might get in return or what they can expect. >> it is interesting t...

i want to bring in mark preston to talk about with what all of this means. i guess in a way mark, we knew that things were partisan. that's not surprising. but if you look at how pew researchers measure this, 48 different ways of measuring how we feel about politics over the years, and they find that we're more divided than ever. almost double over the past 25 years. why? >> you know suzanne, talk about a comprehensive study that pew has done now, you know, there's a lot of reasons. and what's interesting is that it shows that not only are we more divided politically but also seeing ...

The way they perhaps wouldn't have been able to 10, 15 years ago? >> well, it certainly has dramatically changed the way that people can communicate with one another, rally one another, to common objectives. it's been interesting to see how the social media tools like twitter and facebook have been used differently in different con texts. in egypt, tunisia, they were powerful organizing tools for those who were championing change and democracy. in libya, seems that the opposition has coalesced without much reliance on those tools. we're seeing different -- different models and different experi...

>> what do you think where we have young, educated people using twitter and social networking means to spread the message from these countries in the way they perhaps wouldn't have been able to 10, 15 years ago? >> well, it certainly has dramatically changed the way that people can communicate with one another, rally one another, to common objectives. it's been interesting to see how the social media tools like twitter and facebook have been used differently in different con texts. in egypt, tunisia, they were powerful organizing tools for those who were championing change and democracy. in li...