Activism

Brockley Bites: Community activism edition

Brockley Central (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009

Activism

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.

TN judicial activism and gun rights.

Conservative Scalawag (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago

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.

Using Flickr for Neighborhood Activism

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 [...]

The Resistance of the Monks: Buddhism and Activism in Burma

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...

Financial Times: Israel shrugs off economic boycott activism

Solomonia (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009

Financial Times: Israel shrugs off economic boycott activism...

Govt to Launch 16 Days of Activism on Monday

All Africa (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009

Government's 16 Days of Activism for No Violence against Women and Children campaign will be launched at the Union Buildings on Monday.

Miami needs revived student activism

Miami Student (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009

"We are nation of bumper stickers activists," Professor Rodney Coates said, during my black world studies class last week. "Our level of involvement is limited to what we will wear on a T-shirt or put on the back of our cars."

Israel shrugs off economic boycott activism

Financial Times (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009

Norwegian finance ministers do not normally have the tools or the temperament to provoke fury among Israeli leaders and jubilation among Palestinian activists. Yet...

Glenn Beck to announce ‘big plan' for 2010

The Political Carnival (Free subscription) | 4 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...

The Yes Men Save Capitol Hill: 10-year anniversary of WTO protests

Capitol Hill Seattle (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago

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...

Emotional engagement and historians’ values

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...

Berkeley's Wheeler Hall Protest Marks Escalation in Campus Intifada

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,...

No Sharia Law Demo in UK

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...

Thank (the Hand of) God Lisbon 2 wasn't on 19 November!

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...

Global Health tv launches 'From the Field' initiative

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...