“You cannot have free speech if you can be punished for what you say.” Whether you are an activist, a whistle-blower, a warrior, or another information-seeking human being who believes in free expression, at some point you will feel the need to protect your privacy. Governments and businesses ARE watching you. You should assume that [...]
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Win Microsoft Goodies: Survey on Technology and Civic Engagement
The City of Seattle, Metrocenter YMCA and FUSE Labs Microsoft Research, are working together to get a better understanding of how people between the ages of 14 and 25 use technology for community or political activities with the goal of improving local community web sites such as Puget SoundOff. This questionnaire is completely voluntary. Responses [...]
Green Tea Party
Event Title & Host Campus Sustainability Fund, Katie Stultz, Website http://facebook.com/events/381019048597130/ When? Thursday, April 5th, 4:30-5:30pm Where? Savery Hall 164 Why? Monthly forum to create dialog and communication between environmental student groups at UW Description This monthly forum is a way to bring together environmental student groups. The topic this week will be planning for [...]
The Int’l Energy Horizon, Fossil Fuels, Clean Energy, & Empty Promisess
Near the end of 2011, the Department of Energy’s US Energy Information Administration released its annual report on the prospects of international energy consumption and production. The “International Energy Outlook 2011″ came 301-pages-thick, providing mind numbing amounts of research on global energy supplies, markets, and new technologies. I’ve created an overly-abridged summary, to share the [...]
Fighting SOPA, Changing the Internet
Today will mark the day in history that the internet found its voice. Sure, it took several weeks of planning and lots of individual shouting, but somehow the internet and all of its series of tubes have coalesced into one giant message. “Don’t shut us off!” As most of you already know, the recent bills [...]
A Message from the African Climate Justice Caravan
Dear friends, fellow climate activists and campaigners around the world, Hello from the African Climate Justice Caravan and the “We Have Faith” campaign in Africa! We are in the middle of an epic 5,730km journey in 6 buses from Nairobi, Kenya to Durban, South Africa, to collect and communicate the African voice on Climate Change, amplifying it [...]
Perhaps The Copyright Industry Deserves Some Credit For Pointing Out Online Speech’s Single Points Of Failure
Through new legislation the copyright industry is trying to gain unprecedented control over the Internet. Very worrying plans that need to be stopped, but there is also something to learn from. Perhaps we should be grateful that the copyright industry, in their distorted sense of entitlement to the world, are pointing out crucial weaknesses that [...]
