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New Orleans Remember Wikileaks? Yes, I know that seems so “yesterday,” but even with Julian Assange under “luxury arrest” and Wikileaks itself supposedly at death’s door because of financial attacks by its donation enablers like PayPal, the reverberations for all of us continue in our own homes and offices, and not just on the front [...]
Lafayette The notion that whole governments including ostensibly liberal democracies like the United Kingdom would simply throw all pretense about freedom of speech out the window when it comes to social networking tools like Facebook, Twitter, and various instant messaging services proves that all of the freedoms we take for granted are just that, taken [...]
New Orleans No wonder Wikileaks wants to open the door on everything on the internet, reading the news it seems that the damn door is already open wide and swinging according to an article in the Times by Miguel Helft and Claire Cain Miller about subpoenas and declining to nonexistent privacy protections for email, internet, [...]
Hamilton Stephanie Ross from York University and Peter Sawchuck from University of Toronto had invited me to be the first speaker to discuss organizing with a group of academics and activists coming together on a 5-year project called APCOL: Anti-Poverty Community Organizing and Learning, a collaborative effort to evaluate how organizations approach issues and campaigns [...]
New Orleans Sometimes, but not all that often, I get to say, “Hey! You heard it first here!” This is one of those days. Today’s NYT, President Obama is reportedly all up in everyone’s face in the White House about whether or not they have read the New Yorker [...]
Santiago Katia Soriano, Ercilia Sahores and myself jumped out early to drive to Santo Domingo to meet with the Catholic Relief Service to see what it would take to build a partnership. We got back mid-afternoon to catch up with a “get to know you” session that the leaders had run along with Judy Duncan [...]
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