Activism

Yoko Ono looks back on early activism

Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009

NEW YORK (Reuters) - No one knows better than Yoko Ono how far celebrity activism has come in the last 40 years.

• Yoko Ono looks back on early activism - Reuters

On Angry Mobs and Science Activism

The Lay Scientist (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009

There’s been a lot of talk lately about angry mobs. When Jan Moir wrote a viciously homophobic attack on the recently deceased singer Stephen Gately and his grieving friends and family, she was confronted by an angry mob. When ace lawyers Carter-Fuck attempted to gag the Guardian’s reporting of a parliamentary question , the censored information was carried along the information super-highway...

Gender violence activism days to be launched

IOL (Free subscription) | yesterday

"Communities must work together with government to stop the rape and murder of children happening across the country," says Minister of Women, Children and Persons with Disabilities, Noluthando Mayende-Sibiya.

This Day in Liberal Judicial Activism-November 7 -- By: Ed Whelan

Bench Memos (Free subscription) | yesterday

2000 —So much for respecting a capital inmate’s final wishes. Don Jay Miller, sentenced to death in Arizona for first-degree murder and kidnapping, states that he wishes his execution to proceed as scheduled the next day, declines to seek federal habeas relief, and refuses to authorize any attorney to represent him in seeking habeas relief. But, in an action brought by a public defender...

Hope Plus: Online Global Activism Portal To Launch In December

Causecast - Latest News (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009

by ERICA LIEPMANN , Causecast Associate Editor Set to launch in December at the Copenhagen Climate Summit, the team behind PoliticsOnline are brewing up a new online web portal to connect activists around the world to create change. The site's goals are targeted at facilitating individual projects, like building schools, and getting web attention for NGOs online. The site will be called Hope Plus and...

This Day in Liberal Judicial Activism-November 6 -- By: Ed Whelan

Bench Memos (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009

2003 —Senate Democrats continue their unprecedented measures of obstruction against judicial nominees, as they defeat for the second time an effort to end their filibuster of President George W. Bush’s nomination of William H. Pryor, Jr., to a seat on the Eleventh Circuit. Only two Democrats—Zell Miller of Georgia and Ben Nelson of Nebraska—vote in favor of the cloture motion,...

Around The Blogosphere 8 November 09

Dave Lucas (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago

Yoaní Sánchez , Cuba's most famous blogger, who has received countless international awards for her activism, was detained briefly and beaten by Cuban authorities on November 6, along with fellow bloggers, Claudia Cadelo (a Global Voices contributor) and Orlando Luís Pardo Lazo . Bloggers express their views concerning the incident . Yoaní has written [es] about the incident...

An unanticipated surge of lending?

Knowing and Making (Free subscription) | yesterday

I've had this article in draft for about three weeks. Paul Krugman's latest item seemed an opportune moment to finish it. Intriguing article by Sheng and Pomerleano in the Economists' Forum about zero interest rate policy . I don't think I agree with what they are saying (insofar as I can even tell what they're saying) but it stimulates a few thoughts along Scott Sumnerish lines. One bit (from Kevin...

abortion support network to help irish women: interview and help wanted

we move to canada (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago

I've blogged several times about the Haven Coalition, the abortion-access network I belonged to in New York City (founded by a Canadian!). My most recent post about Haven is here . The seeds of Haven continue to germinate, this time across the Atlantic. My friend Mara Clarke, a former Haven volunteer and coordinator, who now lives in London, has formed the Abortion Support Network to assist Irish women...

Aghast Mail bemoans birth of 'European superstate' | Peter Preston

The Guardian (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago

CRY UMM! for England, David and St George. For when the cranky conservative president in Prague put his signature to the Lisbon treaty last week, Britain's Eurosceptic press didn't know what to do. The Express had a ritual rant, of course, but it doesn't count. The real question was what the Sun, Telegraph and Mail would say. Answer: nothing very convincing. The Telegraph contrived to lead on other...

FDL Book Salon Welcomes Hillary Rettig, The Lifelong Activist: How to Change the World Without Losing Your Way

Firedoglake (Free subscription) | yesterday

Today’s book salon focuses on something that I think should get a lot more attention than it does – our psychological well-being as progressive activists. Hillary Rettig’s book, The Lifelong Activist, seeks to help us build activism sustainably into our lives. In order to do so, we’ll need to take better care of ourselves. She starts with an aspiration and a challenge, offering...

FireDogLake publishes names of Stupak donor PACS

MichiganLiberal (Free subscription) | yesterday

Jane Hamsher at FireDogLake posts a lists of corporate PAC donors to Bart Stupak and wonders aloud what they might think of his abortion-related activism as regards healthcare reform. If Planned Parenthood and NARAL are just going to lie down and let access to reproductive health legislation to be written by Catholic bishops , I guess they think that’s in the best interest of the women who donate...

• I Wonder What Bart Stupak’s Donors Think About Financing Anti-Abortion Activists? - Firedoglake

Anti-Abortion Amendment Will Get Floor Vote

Pushing Rope (Free subscription) | yesterday

Democrat Bart Stupak and Republican Joe Pitts are are holding the House heath care bill hostage. Their amendment will bar federally funded insurance from providing abortions. This isn't surprising. The amendment will get an up or down vote on the House floor. The amendment should give pause to thoughts of the Christian Right being dead. Christian Right activist Jordan Sekulow explains how Christian...

Obama Puts Pressure on Joseph Cao

Letters in Bottles (Free subscription) | yesterday

Interesting. Organizing for America, the administration's activism arm, is targeting Congressman Cao on the health care bill through the "grassroots": Last November, Louisiana's 2nd congressional district -- your district -- voted to elect Barack Obama, to change how things are done in Washington, and to deliver real reform to our health insurance system. The House of Representatives is debating...

China expands Internet controls

Hindu (Free subscription) | yesterday

BEIJING: A top official in China has called for authorities to expand controls over cyberspace, even as a spate of recent restrictions imposed on the Internet has bucked a trend of growing online activism here. In recent months, Chinese ...

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...