Open Journal Montreal

Have you been following the swelling peaceful protests in Burma, the monks with their world trembling calls for Dialogue? The way they first asked the people not to join them out of a concern for safety and then, when the movement had grown and the monks were filling the streets and the people couldn’t be [...]

I’m going hard with the aliterative titles these days. I think it’s nice in a epic saga, Beowulf kind of way. I also think this is a nice twist- the shadow minister in British Parliment making a passionate and eloquent argument against any ruling body’s dependency on closed software. And in fact, he puts OS [...]

hmmm…
Part video game, part real online community, Second Life is also getting attention from real-world companies that are beginning to stake out their own turf in Second Life communities. One U.S. House member, Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.), last week even joined the Second Life community to brief a group of invitees on the top priorities [...]

Just doing the last edits on my thesis before doing the final drop off for it to be printed, bound up and joyfully perused, i’m sure, and definitely not to sit quiet and dusty unopened for decades. But just in case, I’ll also be posting it on line here. In part, to prove that I’ve [...]

by Foggy Bottom
On Saturday February 4th, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Governors referred Iran to the UN Security Council. For the US, this was a significant and long awaited diplomatic victory. Since 2003, it had been actively lobbying the member-states of the IAEA Board of Governors to sanction Iran for technical violations [...]

news from uberculture:
“For those who heard that CZECH DREAM would not be screened tonight at
Cinema Politica, the good news has arrived: the distributors in
Europe caved in to our intense lobby efforts (well, they responded
positively to a few emails) and are now allowing us to screen this
funny and creative political doc.
CZECH DREAM will be screened tonight [...]