Increasingly, we’re realizing that helping women is the best first step in an array of issues. Data and experience demonstrate that dollars and effort invested in women return more good to the community than delivering to the state or to men. Women tend to reinvest in their families and communities before themselves and policy and [...]
Women and the world’s issues 07.06.08
USA’s New “Independence” Day 07.04.08
Bush was naturalizing citizens in Monticello, today. AP reports:
Anti-war protesters shouted out calls for Bush’s impeachment on nine occasions during Bush’s brief remarks, and the president responded by saying he agrees that “we believe in free speech in the United States of America” [...]
The last six Fourth of July holidays have taken place amid [...]
“All good things are possible” 06.24.08
As the BBC reports, Mugabe’s Back. He’s now the sole remaining candidate in the presidential run-off on Friday and can do nothing but win an overwhelming majority.
Perhaps it was these compelling posters and not his tyrannical strong arm tactics that brought him marked his resurgence. Or, maybe it was the murder. Yeah, probably the [...]
Olympics vs. Human Rights? 04.01.08
Mother Jones writes about the emerging debate surrounding the torch relay passing through San Francisco — and elsewhere in ‘Free Tibet’ vs. ‘Free-Speech Zones.’
Though now a symbol of global unity, the torch relay got its start during the so-called Fascist Olympics held in 1936 Berlin, when the Nazis seized upon the idea as a way [...]
S.F. Activists Use Twitter, Pirate Radio to Manage Anti-War Protesters 03.19.08
S.F. Activists Use Twitter, Pirate Radio to Manage Anti-War Protesters: ‘What’s new in the last four years is the addition of the text messaging,’ says Taylor. ‘In the past, (street protest organizers) have had walkie-talkies out there and a bullhorn, but the people with the radios would always get arrested by the police.’
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The Cute Cat Theory of Digital Activism 03.14.08
Alex Steffen at Worldchanging points us to Ethan Zuckerman’s superb recap of his talk at ETech. In it, he outlines his “Cute Cat Theory of Digital Activism” which is both prescient and perversely hope-inspiring, making one feel more safe from government censorship.
Zuckerman’s theory goes as follows (1) create web to share research, (2) develop [...]
In Defense Of Complaining 02.25.08
The esteemed Cory Doctorow — digital rights activist, novelist, blogger, Canadian — defends complaining in a recent Information Week column.
Companies aren’t charities. They’re businesses. It doesn’t matter why they’re offering an unacceptable product — all that matters is that the product is unacceptable. Companies aren’t five-year-olds bringing their fingerpaintings home from kindergarten. We don’t have [...]
Lessig to run for U.S. Congress? 02.20.08
Lawrence Lessig, founder of Creative Commons, board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Professor and founder of the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School is considering running for Congress.
The passing of representative Tom Lantos in the California 12th, a Facebook group, and DraftLessig.org have encouraged him to do so.
For the [...]
Anonymous v. Scientology 02.14.08
The internets (and old media, too) have been ablaze with the Anonymous declaration of their intent to “disassemble” the disgusting Church of Scientology.
I mostly ignored this.
It is nothing new, really. Scientology versus the internet has been with us, well, since well before alt.relgions.scientology on Usenet. It has continued, at a regular and consistent [...]
Cisco (!) on the Canadian DMCA and the social web 12.14.07
The tremendous mismanagement of the DMCA introduction in Canada by Minister Prentice and the impressive critical and organized response of Canada’s public has garnered the attention of many. Among them, Cisco, for some reason:
No matter what side of this issue you fall on, the reaction demonstrates the power of Web 2.0 to disseminate information [...]
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