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CIW announces Farmworker Freedom March

Coalition of Immokalee Workers announces "Farmworker Freedom March," Tampa to Lakeland, FL, April 16... read more

Take Action Louisana Live March 9, 2009

This network, the Take Action Louisiana, encourages the exchange of ideas, expertise and resources between... read more

Minnesotans Arrested at White House Tuesday

13 people were arrested at the White House Tuesday. Nine of them are from Minnesota. They are in the... read more

Change, Leadership and Opportunity of this Moment

It's been a tumultuous couple weeks and many people are despairing. Haiti, Massachusetts, Supreme Court... read more

Sustainable Safety Response - SSR - A Better Solution to Post Quake Relief Services

TO: HUMAN RIGHTS ADVOCATES FROM: TOM LUCE, PRES. HURAH, INC. RE: CRITICAL NEED FOR POST-QUAKE SAFETY... read more

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Change, Leadership and Opportunity of this Moment

It's been a tumultuous couple weeks and many people are despairing. Haiti, Massachusetts, Supreme Court, and now the loss of our treasured teacher Professor Howard Zinn. It may seem like too much to bare, but it's not. As a matter of fact, there are reasons to celebrate and new opportunities to organize. At the bottom of this longer-than-usual commentary is an invitation for collaboration on an exciting and timely mobilization to reclaim representative democracy. I hope you will send your ideas ... [ more ]

Posted on WAnet by Backbone Campaign

Twitter's Communications Evolution

An article in the November 9 NY Times, "Refining the Twitter Explosion", described changes that Twitter programmers are making to Twitter, changes that are taking steps toward a dramatic realignment of our society.

The article noted that in January 2009, daily traffic was 2.4 million transmissions, but it grew to 26 million tweets by October. Then, the writer Noam Cohen noted the importance of geographic location to high quality information: "Improvements like geolocation... [ more ]

Posted on ICJPE by Neighbors for Peace

COAST Joins Lawsuit Opposing Navy Sonar Range

The Navy intends to build a 500-square nautical mile instrumented Undersea Warfare Training Range (USWTR) off the Florida and Georgia coasts, where it plans to conduct around 470 annual exercises involving up to three vessels and two aircraft, and the use of its mid-frequency active sonar. Despite the fact that MFA sonar disrupts, injures, and kills marine life, the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), the federal agency responsible for ensuring protection for marine species, has given the ... [ more ]

Posted on MPJEN by Citizens Opposing Active Sonar Threats (COAST)

Money and Politics: Illuminating the Connection, Resource for the Month

Our Resource of the month is Money and Politics: Illuminating the Connection,
MAPLight.org, a groundbreaking public database that illuminates the connection between campaign donations and legislative votes in unprecedented ways. Elected officials collect large sums of money to run their campaigns, and they often pay back campaign contributors with special access and favorable laws.

This common practice is contrary to the public... [ more ]

Posted on ICJPE by ICJPE

Minnesotans Arrested at White House Tuesday

13 people were arrested at the White House Tuesday. Nine of them are from Minnesota. They are in the DC jail. Evidently they will be held for 24 hours in a jail that is all stainless steel including the bunks. The water supply does not work that well if at all in the cells. And, according to one observer, they turn up either the heat or the air conditioning to make them uncomfortable.

For the action they had cardboard tombstones with the names of 77 Minnesotans who died in the wars... [ more ]

Posted on MAPM by Twin Cities Peace Campaign - Focus on Iraq

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