Non-Believers Giving Aid

Peregrin Wood 2/3/2011
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Why Non-Believers Giving Aid? Some people believe that only adherents of major religions provide financial relief to people in need, and Dawkins wanted to prove that people who don’t have religious belief are generous as well.

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Are War Criminals Coming to Your Neighborhood? Find out with War Criminals Watch

Jim Cook 1/27/2011
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World Can’t Wait has created a clever database called War Criminals Watch that discloses the times and places where the war criminals of the previous Bush administration will be appearing in public events. It is only just that these Bush …

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Loewen: The Slaveholding South was AGAINST States’ Rights

Jim Cook 1/8/2011
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In tomorrow’s Washington Post, James Loewen writes a succinct refutation of the notion that the South seceded from the Union and sparked a bloody war 150 years ago because of its dedication to the principle of states’ rights. Loewen points …

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EcoFreek Offers Consolidated Free Stuff

Peregrin Wood 1/3/2011
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Got hard times? Maybe you can’t shop at the high end stores that offer eco fair trade local products, but you might not have to go to a big box discount store either. Try EcoFreek. It’s a metasearch engine with …

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For Real Grassroots Peace Demonstrations, Check Out PeaceRally.org

Jim Cook 12/31/2010
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A tip of the pen to qs for directing me to PeaceRally.org, a piece of web infrastructure that allows any ol’ person to declare an anti-war demonstration and allows anyone else to build support for that demonstration by either sharing …

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WaPo: 4,058 Little Brothers are Watching You

Jim Cook 12/20/2010
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Dana Priest and William Arkin publish an expose in this morning’s Washington Post that collects together hundreds of previously released documents and combines them with new interviews and documentation to summarize the state of government surveillance in America. They document …

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So Small So Big

Rowan 12/14/2010
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If you find yourself wondering how small an electron really is, or how large a galaxy can be, but can’t summon a sense of the scale, check out Scale of the Universe, from Cary and Michael Huang. It’s an online …

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More Russ Feingold for President Talk, and a Hyperlink Game

Jim Cook 11/11/2010
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Democratic Underground: Feingold/Grayson Or Grayson/Feingold 2012! Or 2016. Hey, I’m flexible. Tom’s Civil Liberty Blog: One of the immediate consequences of Russ Feingold’s stunning loss in last Tuesday’s election–which deprives us of the best civil libertarian in Congress, and the …

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Support for a Draft Feingold for President Movement Spreads

Jim Cook 11/10/2010
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Draft Russ Feingold 2012 Petition: On Tuesday, November 2, 2010 we saw Senator Russ Feingold stand above all others as he gave a speech that unified Democrats across the country. Even as the sea of red Republican take-over’s across the …

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Want to Experience Activism with actual Content? Try these Events

Jim Cook 10/30/2010
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You could go to today’s “Rally for Sanity” in Washington, DC that offers the pageantry of a protest but asks its attendants to be quiet and do nothing. Alternatively, you could attend one of the upcoming political protests listed below. …

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Warning! Pictures Of Muslims Wearing Muslim Garb!

Peregrin Wood 10/23/2010
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The idea of scary “Muslim garb” put forward by Juan Williams isn’t just bigoted. It’s absurd. That’s the point made by a great new site that calls itself simply Pictures of Muslims Wearing Things.

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10 Tactics for Information Activists: Can You Name #11?

Jim Cook 10/12/2010
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Yesterday, I despaired a bit that old social movement tactics didn’t seem to be working any more. New Media Rights and the Tactical Technology Collective have gotten creative, coming out with a list of 10 tactics for turning information into …

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Spread the Word: Tell us About Your Protest!

Jim Cook 10/6/2010
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Ross the Keystone State activist writes in today to let us know about two upcoming protests: 1. On Thursday, October 14 from 4:30-6:00 pm at the intersection of 9th and Hamilton in Allentown, PA there will be an Anti-Fracking protest …

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Were You Spied on for Pennsylvania Homeland Security? You Have a Right to Know

Jim Cook 9/23/2010
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Have you been involved in just about any activist events in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania over the past twelve months? If your answer to this questions is “Yes,” then you might have been spied on by contractors for the Pennsylvania …

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Charities Beyond Belief Give Help Without Harassment

Peregrin Wood 9/14/2010
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There are too many secular charitable organizations for Barack Obama’s continued support for George W. Bush’s unconstitutional program of government funding for religious organizations to be justified.

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Sign Up to Learn More About the Audacious Alta Gracia T-Shirt Experiment

Jim Cook 8/21/2010
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Activist college students, the Workers Rights Consortium and Knights Apparel have launched a new shirt for the collegiate (and we hope later general) market called the Alta Gracia shirt. It will be made in the Dominican Republic, one of the …

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Resource: List of Campaign Finance Disclosure Websites State by State

Jim Cook 8/4/2010
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Transparency shouldn’t be opaque. For the life of me, I haven’t been able to find a current list of campaign finance websites covering local political donations in the 50 states of the USA. The best I could find was an …

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Useful New Resource on Surveillance Society: Top Secret America

Jim Cook 7/20/2010
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Yesterday morning, a team of Washington Post journalists unveiled a major new resource called Top Secret America: A Hidden World, Growing Beyond Control. A series of connected web pages identify and connected various government agencies and private companies that are …

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