Yahya Arhab/European Pressphoto Agency-Protesters sought to storm the United States embassy during a protest against an anti-Islamic film in Sana on Thursday. I could not follow the related news in great detail but what I understand is that: an a-obscure Israeli director who lives in US produces a very low quality an anti-Islam movie and … Read more
Obama, Romney Take Over the Web With Advertisements from Mashable! by Alex Fitzpatrick Obama Speech Tops Facebook Mentions from Mashable! by Alex Fitzpatrick September 11, 2001 as experienced on the International Space Station from Boing Boing by David Pescovitz On September 11, 2001, US astronaut Frank L. Culbertson watched the aftermath of the … Read more
Obama responds to Eastwood’s empty chair stunt from Hurriyet Daily News Hollywood tough guy Clint Eastwood made a bizarre cameo Thursday at the Republican convention, veering into a surreal conversation. Eastwooding! Clint?s ?Invisible Obama? Routine Inspires Meme from Mashable! by Annie Colbert Obama Tweets Response to Eastwooding Meme: ?This Seat?s Taken? from Mashable! by Samantha … Read more
Why the upcoming presidential election is one of the most important in US history: an interview with Theda Skocpol, Theda Skocpol from open Democracy News Analysis – by Theda Skocpol This interview conducted at the Kennedy School in Boston was first published in Juncture, the new international journal of the Institute for Public Policy Research. … Read more
Pirate Bay to Anonymous: DDoS is censorship, cut it out from Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow A good-tempered rebuke from The Pirate Bay to the Anons who staged a raid on Virgin Media in protest of the ISP’s participation in blocking The Pirate Bay for its customers: More Americans Worried About Cybarmegeddon Than Terrorism, Study … Read more
Off the Grid There are growing number of people who have decided to live light on the earth to not be a part of problem anymore I spent the last few years with four of them striving for harmony with nature in the most pristine corners of United States. ************ United States: Occupy Wall Street … Read more
Sneak attack: surprise amendment makes CISPA worse, then it is voted and passed a day ahead of schedule. Congress just deleted the Fourth Amendment from Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow Even with Rogers? Amendments, CISPA is Still a Surveillance Bill from EFF.org Updates by rainey This week, a flurry of amendments were introduced to try … Read more
200,000 Martin Luther King Papers Go Online from Open Culture by Dan Colman What better way to celebrate the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.? Today, the King Center has made available online 200,000 papers belonging to the civil rights leader ? the first step to bringing more than one million documents to the web. … Read more
New Report: Teens, kindness and cruelty on social network sites Social media use has become so pervasive in the lives of American teens that having a presence on a social network site is almost synonymous with being online. Fully 95% of all teens ages 12-17 are now online and 80% of those online teens are … Read more
Striking Posters From Occupy Wall Street: Download Them for Free from Open Culture by Mike Springer Blazing de-bullshitification of the arguments for militarized campus police forces from Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow UC Davis music professor Bob Ostertag has written a savagely brilliant editorial in the Huffington Post, denouncing the use of military-style force … Read more
here is Occupy aggregator: http://occupationalist.org/ Occupy Oakland: photos before and after violent police raid by Xeni Jardin Occupy the Nor-easter: NYC OWS protesters braved a snowstorm this weekend by Xeni Jardin Oakland General Strike posters by Cory Doctorow Interpreting the ?Occupy Movement?: stewardship lost and found, C. S. Herrman from open Democracy News Analysis – by … Read more
Egyptians march from Tahrir Square to support Occupy Oakland protestors from Boing Boing by Xeni Jardin Watch Live: Michael Moore at Occupy Oakland from Boing Boing by Xeni Jardin KQED has a live stream of Michael Moore speaking to “Occupy Oakland”, right now. And North Oakland Now is live-tweeting soundbites while he speaks, as is … Read more
Occupy Oakland: Riot police use tear gas, other nonlethal weapons on protestors by Xeni Jardin Photo: Adreadnonymous. Protester in wheelchair at Oakland protest, tear-gassed. [Video Link: Oakland police throwing tear gas bombs at protesters.] From Oakland Nor Police raid on Occupy Oakland: the morning after by Xeni Jardin One-percenter: why I support Occupy by … Read more
Occupy Wall Street Hackathons Produce Digital Tools and New Activists from Mashable! by Sarah Kessler Groups of programmers gathered in three cities this weekend to build digital tools for the Occupy Wall Streetmovement. Several of those tools have already launched, and in many cases they?re being maintained by activists who?ve never held a sign in … Read more
PBS reporter jailed while covering “Occupy Wall Street” protests in NYC by Xeni Jardin While working on a story about citizen journalism at the Occupy Wall Street protests in New York for PBS affiliate WNET Thirteen, John Farley was arrested, along with the demonstrators whose stories he was covering. More than 700 anti-Wall Street protesters … Read more