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NW Dentention Center Demo Vigil

DEMAND HUMAN RIGHTS AT TACOMA IMMIGRATION PRISON! Monthly Demonstration/Vigil at NW Detention Center... read more

MLK Day '09 in Washington DC: We the People ... Pledge to Work for Change

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Defining & Propelling Change We Can Believe In MLK Day '... read more

Fight Corporate Purchase of Elections

Now is the time to fight back against one of the worst Supreme Court rulings in generations: allowing... read more

Procession for the Future Debuts in Portland

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Support Global Zero--Eliminate NUKES

Global Zero is a movement to eliminate nuclear weapons TOTALLY worldwide. I know you're all busy, but... read more

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Facing 70 Years in Prison for Clothing

Syed Fahad Hashmi is an American citizen who has not been convicted of any crime yet who has been held for more than two years under Special Administrative Measures - the harshest conditions of solitary confinement - at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Lower Manhattan. He is accused by a government informer of allowing a duffel bag of waterproof socks and raincoats to be stored at his house that, without his knowledge, went to terrorists in Afghanistan. For more information, see more ]

Posted on NY4CG by New York Metro Progressives

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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