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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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