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Denver Post (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Glenn Beck, the popular Fox News host, says he wants to go beyond broadcasting his opinions on television and start rallying his political base — formerly known as his audience — to take action.
Conservative Scalawag (Free subscription) | yesterday
A Nashville, TN judge, Chancellor Claudia Bonnyman - who was appointed by the Gov. who vetoed the bill, but was later overridden, has declared the law unconstitutional. Read the article here via Oleg Volk.
b.rox (Free subscription) | yesterday
Some of my neighbors have been bickering, er, I mean debating about Comiskey Park here in Mid-City. The basketball goals that used to be there were taken down when an television production company made plans to rebuild the park for a reality show. That didn’t pan out in the long run, and the park was [...]
Democracy Resource Center Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
URL: http://www.hrw.org/en/reports/2009/09/22/resistance-monks-0 . Source: Human Rights Watch. This 99-page report written by longtime Burma watcher Bertil Lintner, describes the repression Burma's monks experienced after they led demonstrations against the government in September 2007. The report tells the stories of individual monks who were arrested, beaten and detained. Two years after Buddhist...
Relevant Science (Free subscription) | yesterday
“We are planning to stay as long as possible,” Andi Walden, a 21-year-old senior in the building, said by cellphone. “It appears the police are getting ready to break down the doors and drag us out. We had to take direct action. The regents won’t respond to anything else.” Taken from the NYT . I agree.
Solomonia (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Financial Times: Israel shrugs off economic boycott activism...
Perspective Journal: News and Polit (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
Politico – Glenn Beck signals his intention to branch off more directly into political activism. No tags for this post.
Antony Loewenstein (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
The US-based Anti-Defamation League is usually far more interested in slamming critics of Israel, but its latest report makes for sobering reading: Since the election of Barack Obama as president, a current of anti-government hostility has swept across the United States, creating a climate of fervor and activism with manifestations ranging from incivility in public forums [...]
Capitol Hill Seattle (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
WTO_Demo2.jpg , originally uploaded by ntisocl . On November 30, 1999, Capitol Hill became a battleground as police clashed with protesters and the city's downtown core erupted in confrontation . The World Trade Organization had come to Seattle bringing all the world's problems with it -- and exposing plenty of Seattle's along the way. Not every moment was warfare. Much of the protest and activism...
The Political Carnival (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
By GottaLaff Maybe FreedomTCOT can tell his friends to blindly follow Blech's Big Plan! At a rally Saturday at a massive retirement community in central Florida, Beck is planning to unveil what he has billed as a “big plan” for 2010 , which is expected to involve the 9.12 Project [...] Need a visual reminder about what the 9/12 Project looked like? Why, here's one now ! And here's a handy...
Capitol Hill Seattle (Free subscription) | yesterday
CHS will feature coverage this week of the 10-year anniversary of the WTO protests in Seattle with a focus on Capitol Hill's role in the events. As part of the remembrance, we are sponsoring a new kind of civil disobedience. There's still a place for facing down jack-booted thugs and noxious gas -- but we also admire people who get their point across in more subversive ways. In that spirit, CHS is...
American Power (Free subscription) | yesterday
There's been a good bit of commentary on the student fee protests at the University of California. For example, regarding this week's action at Berkeley, CSPT , Michelle Malkin , NRO , and Tiger Hawk all discuss the spoiled brats of the elite university system. And Dan Riehl provides some quotes from activists on the ground, " Some Priceless Prose From Berkeley " ( via ). But as I've argued,...
Magistra et Mater (Free subscription) | yesterday
Bavardess and I (plus assorted commentators) are now engaged in an intercontinental discussion on historical fiction writing (see recent instalments here , here and here ). I want here to focus on one paragraph of Bavardess' last post: I also believe that novelists should not be the only ones aspiring to make us emotionally engage with the past. Historians like Marcus Rediker or Judith Walkowitz have...
New Appeal to Reason (Free subscription) | yesterday
Today, in Great Britain, there will be an important demonstration against Sharia law. The demo is largely organized by UK muslims and supported by the democratic left and secularists. Vetran human rights campaigner Peter Thatchell comments at Harry's Place Millions of people are suffering at the hands of clerical regimes, especially our Muslim brothers and sisters in countries like Saudi Arabia and...
Politics.ie (Free subscription) | yesterday
With all the bad vibes about Thierry Henry and the Hammered-by-the-Irish leprechaun activism outside the French Embassy, would Cowen have held...
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globalhealthtv | 30/01/2009
‘From the Field’ video upload facility gives voice to health communities in developing world In recent years the internet has become home to an immeasurable number of online communities, which are now increasingly becoming catalysts for social activism – cementing the emergence of the internet as a powerful social phenomenon. Global Health TV , a web-based TV channel that documents global health issues...
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