There were no placards or banners, no slogans or matching T-shirts, but by “taking a walk” together for a couple of hours, a few hundred citizens of a laid-back southwestern city were illegally challenging government plans for a new oil refinery.

They wandered in quiet clusters down a route circulated by Internet and mobile phone, watched by uniformed and plainclothes police who knew exactly why they were there and later punished six people for their role. -Reuters link

Chinese citizens learned the value and impact their role as activists has on political decisions. They took their organizing and communicating skills and adapted them to rallying large groups to help during the earth quake disaster. These new skills will no doubt be adapted to new situations as they arise in the future. – what accomplishments will happen while protesting/activism is still banned..banned after the huge protest that foreigners know about, but that many in china have never heard of.