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Designing Effective Action Alerts for the Internet An action alert is a message that someone sends out to the net asking for a specific action to be taken on a current political issue. Well-designed action alerts are a powerful way to invite people to participate in the processes of a democracy. Having seen many action alerts in my years on the Internet, I have tried to abstract some guidelines for people who wish to use them. Even if you do not plan to construct any action alerts yourself, I do not recommend that you forward anybody else's alerts unless they conform to at least the spirit of these guidelines. Israel/Palestine « settler colonial studies blog Voltairenet.org reports of a poster campaign that has been up and running in New York subways for the last month. ‘This operation is promoted by the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI), a pro-Israel organization that attempts by various means to stoke fear of Islam’. On her blog, the AFDI’s executive director insists this is ‘FANTASTIC!’ […]
Understanding How Glass-Steagall Act Impacts Investment Banking and the Role of Commercial Banks Understanding How Glass-Steagall Act Impacts Investment Banking and the Role of Commercial Banks Contents At A Glance Use these hyperlinks to jump to the particular section; use the search feature on you browser to find particular information on this page; or simply go down the page using the scroll bars to read in a linear fashion. Introduction to the Glass-Steagall Act Top 10 Countries Censoring the Web When the World Wide Web was created in 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee (not to be confused with the Internet itself, which is the core network developed many years earlier), its main objective was to enable the free exchange of information via interlinked hypertext documents. Almost 20 years later, that objective has been accomplished on most parts of the world, but not in all of them. Some countries are trying hard to keep an iron hand over the flow of information that takes place on the Web.
arenaofspeculation.org Access, 2011 (left to right): Israeli ID, West Bank ID, Gaza ID, stateless Palestinian refugee With the continued absence of a credible political process, it has become evermore crucial to view the dominant structures of spatial power in Israel-Palestine as an entrenched reality rather than a passing aberration. This website was born from the pressing need to expose and confront the long-term spatio-political implications of these structures and, more broadly, to engage in forms of agency with the potential to counter them, and to establish paths towards possible alternatives. The term ‘arena of speculation’ was coined by Decolonizing Architecture , referring to an intellectual space of critical debate on the spatial futures of Israel-Palestine. Whilst their work aims to challenge and subvert the contours of spatial power through a creative application of the tools of spatial analysis and architectural conjecture, the implications of such endeavours are also much wider.
The US Is No Longer the Land of the Free Turley writes: "Even as we pass judgment on countries we consider unfree, Americans remain confident that any definition of a free nation must include their own - the land of free. Yet, the laws and practices of the land should shake that confidence." By Jonathan Turley, Jonathan Turley's Blog Commentary — Israeli Occupation Archive Israel has for decades been able to frame the discussion about the Palestinians. But its control of the narrative is coming to an end. As Israel loses ground it will viciously and irrationally attack all truth tellers, even if they are American students, and especially if they are Jews.
Income Inequality Is Crushing Middle Class' Political Power Excerpt: "Thanks in large part to the Occupy Wall Street movement, the debilitating effects of income inequality have been hoisted into the national spotlight. But in addition to killing economic growth and economic mobility, income inequality also exacerbates political inequality." MIT economist Daron Acemoglu says that increasing the importance of money in politics increases the problem of political inequality. (photo: Adbusters) By Pat Garofalo, ThinkProgress The Jerusalem Fund "Why the 'Jewish state' demand is a non-starter" By Yousef Munayyer Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu demands Palestinians recognise Israel as 'a Jewish state' and US President Barack Obama, who used this language in his state of the union address, signalled US support for this position. This is disastrous for the prospects for peace and not something the Palestinians can or should ever accept.Read more... More Analysis The Palestine Center is an independent think-tank committed to communicating reliable and objective information about the Palestinian political experience to American policy makers, journalists, students and the general public.
17 Reasons I Refuse to File an Income Tax Return Will KeslerActivist Post Years ago I realized that there is no law that requires a citizen to file an income tax return. Therefore, I have publicly refused to file for the past twelve years. If brought before a jury I will rely entirely upon the following evidence.