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We just received this message from 350.org and we’re excited to share it. Keeping up constant, friendly pressure is working, we are an international network of changemakers whether it feels like it or not, and every small bit IS making a difference. Toast to that! Onwards!
Dear friends,
For once, this email isn’t asking you to do [...]

At least one Burmese child soldier escaped and, after years of living in fear, has been brought one huge step closer to staying safe here in Canada. Good News isn’t frequent for our friends in Burma so when some comes along, it seems fit to share it.
For your information, the Karen Human Rights Group [...]

Thanks to Alex Yarrow for sharing her conference notes!
Went to this great session at Ontario Library Ass’n conference about e-IFL FOSS. Thought you might be interested.
Here are my notes:
OK – what is eIFL-FOSS? Electronic Information for Libraries: Free and Open Source Software.
From their website: “eIFL-FOSS advocates free and open source software (FOSS) use [...]

I’ve had the Costory site open as a tab for way too many days, even weeks now, trying to figure out what and how to blog about it. Costory is a collaborative story space, a tool for perpetual group authorship of limitless story projects, run on Mediawiki, like the Wikipedia. It’s a conundrum because the [...]

Thank you again to Avaaz:
Here is an email from Asma Jahangir, head of the Pakistani Human Rights Commission and the UN’s Special Rapporteur for freedom of religion worldwide. Now under house arrest in Lahore, she’s one of many Pakistanis urgently asking the world community to raise our voice:
There is a strong crackdown on [...]

From Cinema Politica

THE DEVIL CAME ON HORSEBACK
MONDAY, OCTOBER 29 @ 7:30pm
Concordia University: Henry F. Hall Bldg – Room H-110
1455 de Maisonneuve West, Montreal QC
Screening by donation, and open to the public.
Film info and trailer available at: http://www.cinemapolitica.org/films/60
A CO-PRESENTATION OF: Cinema Politica (Concordia University), Save Darfur Canada & The Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human [...]