Web 2.0 tools were used widely by activists, according to the Guardian…

Updates on the event and messages of support were quickly posted on social networking websites such as Twitter, which organizers encouraged people to use to provide live coverage. One blog dubbed the event as “Protest 2.0”

Icelandic police fired pepper spray and made arrests at a demonstration outside parliament on Tuesday where protesters demanded the government that oversaw the country’s economic collapse step down, local media said.
Several hundred demonstrators, some hammering on pots and pans, gathered around the Althing, amid calls for the Icelandic government to step down, a Reuters witness reported.

Police used rubber bullets and tear gas to quell demonstrators in the Lithuanian capital Friday, as economic hardship burst into street-level rage in another European country.
With dwindling budgets forcing unpopular spending cuts and tax hikes in many countries, the global financial crisis is steadily emerging as a political threat to governments. Demonstrations have erupted in Lithuania, Latvia, Bulgaria and Iceland as bread-and-butter anxiety turns into anti-government rage.