Global Revolution. New Media Business Models. Be The Change You Want To See In The World. By Matthew Yglesias on September 14, 2011 at 2:30 pm "Be The Change You Want To See In The World" I got a great email today from a self-described “well-educated, politically literate, 30-something person with a job and a kid” who spends “let’s say 45 minutes a day that I spend thinking about politics” and who had a great question: That 45 minutes is about 40 minutes reading you, Ezra Klein, and Steve Benen and 5 minutes talking to my husband who’s been busy reading Kevin Drum and Jon Chait.
It’s all very lovely to be well-acquainted with graphs, but I’m starting to realize that I am part of the problem as well. I don’t actually DO anything besides read and fulminate in the quiet of my own home. She wants to know what she should actually be doing to try to create change, since “[w]atching Jon Stewart tell me things I already know in funny voices is starting to seem hollow.” This has become one of my refrains when talking to people in person. Occupy Australia. Kallou22. Occupy Wall Street Sept. 17, 2011. SO REAL IT HURTS: Notes on Occupy Wall Street. By Guest Contributor Manissa McCleave Maharawal, originally published on her Facebook page I first went down to Occupy Wall Street last Sunday, almost a week after it had started.
I didn’t go down before because I, like many of my other brown friends, were wary of what we had heard or just intuited that it was mostly a young white male scene. When I asked friends about it they said different things: that it was really white, that it was all people they didn’t know, that they weren’t sure what was going on. But after hearing about the arrests and police brutality on Saturday and after hearing that thousands of people had turned up for their march I decided I needed to see this thing for myself. So I went down for the first time on Sunday September 25th with my friend Sam.
Sam and I get off our bikes and walk them. The landscape is strange. We get to Liberty Plaza and at first it is almost unassuming. And I didn’t know anyone down there. I have never blocked something before actually. GLOBAL REVOLUTION TIME FOR ACTION! Prosecution - Sweden vs. Assange. Irregularities in the conduct of the Swedish prosecution in the investigation against Julian Assange Swedish police report in Swedish and in English Sweden does not follow the so called "investigating judge model", and Swedish public prosecutors have very strong powers compared with the situation existing in other Member States: They may decide on any kind of measures during investigations, including coercive measures... e.g. phone surveillance, or detention.
(European Commission Evaluation Report on Sweden, Doc 99227/2/08 REV 2. October 2008, para 2.1., cited in the submission by the Appellant to the Supreme Court, paragraph 24) Al Jazeera interview with Julian Assange on 21 August 2010, just after the rape investigation was dropped It is highly irregular in Sweden for an international arrest warrant to be sought in relation to allegations of this kind, and for a preliminary investigation where there is no charge. Why is the Swedish Prosecutor refusing to Question Assange? Ms. RSA Animate - 21st century enlightenment.
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