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Thou shalt not commit logical fallacies. Democracy 2.0. California Delta. Press Freedom Victory: Democracy Now! Reporters Win Landmark Settlement Over 2008 RNC Arrests. This is a rush transcript.

Press Freedom Victory: Democracy Now! Reporters Win Landmark Settlement Over 2008 RNC Arrests

Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: As we reported in yesterday’s headlines, a final settlement been reached in our federal lawsuit challenging the police crackdown on journalists at the 2008 Republican National Convention in St. Paul. Democracy Now! Producers Nicole Salazar, Sharif Abdel Kouddous and I filed the suit last year against the Minneapolis and St. We were among dozens of journalists arrested that week in St.

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Washington Post. Without overreaction by the Russian authorities, the band’s theatrical anti-Putin “punk prayer” at a Russian Orthodox cathedral would have touched almost no one beyond the handful present for the action.

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Now the three young women — Nadezh­da Tolokonnikova, Maria Alekhina and Ekaterina Samutsevich — are internationally known and have been deemed “prisoners of conscience” by Amnesty International, and their band’s racy name has become something akin to a household word. Conversely, Putin appears not only oppressive but scared, weakened by a show trial that was intended to solidify his rule.

I know this dynamic from the inside, having been one of the ringleaders of a similar punk escapade in 1987-88. At the time, Ronald Reagan was president and his attorney general, Edwin Meese III, was mired in scandal, with three special prosecutors on his trail. Progressive Research Tools.

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 A Consumer Watchdog Investigation. Help. Three women’s rights activists share Nobel Peace Prize. By Agence France-PresseFriday, October 7, 2011 6:49 EDT Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, her compatriot and “peace warrior” Leymah Gbowee and Yemen’s Arab Spring activist Tawakkul Karman won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday.

Three women’s rights activists share Nobel Peace Prize

The three women will share the 2011 award “for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women’s rights to full participation in peace-building work,” Norwegian Nobel Committee president Thorbjoern Jagland said in his announcement. “We cannot achieve democracy and lasting peace in the world unless women obtain the same opportunities as men to influence developments at all levels of society,” he added. Sirleaf, 72, made history when she became Africa’s first elected woman president in 2005.

She took over a nation traumatised by 14 years of brutal civil war that left 250,000 dead and economic devastation, with no electricity, running water or infrastructure. Togo women push sex strike to unseat president. In this Saturday, Aug. 25, 2012 photo, female opposition leader Isabelle Ameganvi calls on Togo's women to observe a one-week sex strike beginning Monday, in Lome, Togo.

Togo women push sex strike to unseat president

The female wing of a civil rights group is urging women in Togo to stage a week-long sex strike to demand the resignation of the country's president. (AP Photo/ Erick Kaglan) LOME, Togo (AP) — The female wing of a civil rights group is urging women in Togo to stage a week-long sex strike to demand the resignation of the country’s president. Women are being asked to start withholding sex from their husbands or partners as of Monday, said Isabelle Ameganvi, leader of the women’s wing of the group Let’s Save Togo. She said the strike will put pressure on Togo’s men to take action against President Faure Gnassingbe. Pakistan: The New Radicals - Activate. The Promise and Challenge of Nonviolence. Albert Einstein Institution - Advancing freedom through nonviolent action. Media tools. Facebook Alternatives: Other Secure Social Networks You Could Switch To.

The Yes Men Present: The Yes Lab for Creative Activism by The Yes Lab. For years, the Yes Men have been tinkering with side-splitting mischief as a way to fight injustice.

The Yes Men Present: The Yes Lab for Creative Activism by The Yes Lab

Our latest film about those efforts, The Yes Men Fix the World, won lots of awards and was released all over the planet... but it simply did not fix the world. So a year ago, we decided that showing what we do wasn’t enough: we needed to help people to actually do it themselves. We called our idea The Yes Lab for Creative Activism. It's a factory for meaningful mischief, and a system for helping organizations and individuals carry out Yes Men-style actions on their own, to get media attention for important issues. But the Yes Lab is more than that: it also aims to help YOU take action on issues of social importance. Today, after a year of testing and nearly a dozen successes, we're proud to announce that the Yes Lab is ready for prime time!

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Astromachia. What's wrong in the US. UK-Riots august2011. London Riots. Libya/Tripoli/Gaddafi. Occupy 2012 (mainly US) 2012 Politics (Mostly US) Militarization of Police. Positive Changes. Progressive Blogs. Esoteric Free Library. MAG Net Annual Report 2011. Dec. Social Justice and Housing. Rights/Laws. Taqwacore: The Birth of Punk Islam. Connecting You to the World. AJE. Be The Change... Current TV: Official Site. Momsrising: Momsrising. "We the corporations" Amendment. MoveOn.Org.