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WABP&J Peace Vigil

Every Sunday, from noon to 1pm, all are invited to stand with Waterville Area Bridges for Peace & Justice... read more

COAST Joins Lawsuit Opposing Navy Sonar Range

The Navy intends to build a 500-square nautical mile instrumented Undersea Warfare Training Range (USWTR... read more

Visionary Draw-A-Thon

VISIONARY DRAW-A-THON POETRY READING & POT LUCK SUPPER SATURDAY, FEB 13 (Snow... read more

Brunswick wrestles with Drone Testing Site issue

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles/drones were discussed during a MRRA (midcoast... read more

ASERELA annual Feast for the Children

The ASERELA annual "Feast for the Children" will be on Saturday, March 6, 2010 at 6:00 p.m. at the Cathedral... 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

Change, Leadership and Opportunity of this Moment

It's been a tumultuous couple weeks and many people are despairing. Haiti, Massachusetts, Supreme Court, and now the loss of our treasured teacher Professor Howard Zinn. It may seem like too much to bare, but it's not. As a matter of fact, there are reasons to celebrate and new opportunities to organize. At the bottom of this longer-than-usual commentary is an invitation for collaboration on an exciting and timely mobilization to reclaim representative democracy. I hope you will send your ideas ... [ more ]

Posted on WAnet by Backbone Campaign

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

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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