The Secretary Of State Is Participating In Anti-Drone Protests?!?
Today, starting just a few minutes from now, a coalition of activist groups working under the umbrella title of Upstate NY Coalition to Ground the Drones & End the Wars is holding a protest rally...
View ArticleDelaware And Bicycles
“Delaware should be, is and will be a welcoming place to live and love and to raise a family for all who call our great state home.” So said Governor Jack Markell last night, upon signing into law a...
View ArticleShadow Vice President To March On The Chamber Of Commerce
The Green Shadow Cabinet asks: “What are the most dire issues we face? If you’re like most Americans, you’d probably say the climate crisis and the jobs crisis. So why is Washington so obsessed with...
View ArticleHonoring The Two Row
400 years ago, in 1613. Dutch colonists entered into the very first treaty between European settlers and the Haudenosaunee, the people of the longhouse, the members of the Iroquois Confederacy. The...
View ArticleFrom Humor to Horror in Turkey: How Could They Beat Their Own People? (…)
This morning, as I looked to the popular headline service Twitter for accounts of secular protest across Turkey, what struck me first was the humor in a pair of photographs from Ankara and Adana: What...
View ArticleLeftists Meeting at Pace This Weekend
This weekend, on the Pace University campus on lower Manhattan, American leftists will gather for the Left Forum, a conference that is this year focused on the theme of environmental and economic...
View ArticleHow to take ACTION to defy the National Security Agency electronic...
Using the powers granted under the FISA Amendments Act and Patriot Act to establish unreasonable search and seizure of Americans’ homes, records, and communications by government agents, without any...
View ArticleThousands Join Protest Demanding Barack Obama Resign
On the surface, America’s telecommunications companies are trying to project an appearance of calm. Beneath that superficial appearance, they are scrambling. I spoke this morning to the manager of a...
View ArticleIn Turkey, Taksim Movement Declares its Breadth
Today I discovered Taksim Solidarity, a website at which the movement against authoritarianism in Turkish government shares its messages with the world in German, Turkish and English. The word...
View ArticleSupport An Obama Vs. Snowden Public Debate!
Yesterday, I wrote of a petition in the official White House system that demands the resignation of Barack Obama over his continuation and expansion of a massive military electronic surveillance...
View ArticleRestore The Fourth Protests around the United States, July 4 2013
“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable...
View ArticleRestore the Fourth Protests against Surveillance ready to hit 60 U.S. Cities...
In late June 2013, I shared information with you about Restore the Fourth protests taking place in 34 cities across the United States. These demonstrations react to the news that President Barack Obama...
View ArticleWildly Inventive, Unsettlingly Unusual NSA Mix Tape Bike Ride in Washington...
We Act Radio in Washington DC is throwing aside the once-subversive, now-staid “hey hey, ho ho” mode of protest, replacing it with a NSA Mix Tape Bike Ride that is framed in jarring terms: Does that...
View ArticleSign of Protest: the NSA has TMI
On her way to one of the 60 Restore the Fourth protests against warrantless surveillance scheduled for today, Ann Altherr shares the placard she’ll be carrying: Do you need another reason to oppose the...
View ArticleTen Most Popular Restore the Fourth Protest Links
As people gather around the country for Restore the Fourth protests against the U.S. government’s massive communications dragnet, they’re talking to each other and sharing links. One good way to find...
View ArticlePhotos Show Crowds at Restore the Fourth Protests, July 4 2013
They could be sunning themselves at the beach, but in 60 cities across the nation today (and in a few other places) Americans are protesting the newly revealed warrantless surveillance state in a new...
View ArticleStatements In Protest Of Homeland Security Surveillance Programs By Restore...
Americans have been observing this Fourth of July holiday by gathering across the United States to protest programs by the NSA, FBI and USPS to eavesdrop on our telephone calls and emails, seize our...
View ArticleOn Huge Petition to Pardon Edward Snowden, Barack Obama goes Silent
On June 22, the petition to pardon Edward Snowden surpassed a hundred thousand signatures, and has continued to gather signatures ever since, reaching 127,000 signatures this morning. Once a petition...
View ArticleRestore the Fourth Movement to Fight Warrantless Surveillance Reports Media...
The Restore the Fourth movement against massive warrantless seizure of papers and effects by the U.S. Government reports significant success in pulling Americans’ attention back to the NSA PRISM...
View ArticleGreenpeace Activists Climb Europe’s Tallest Building To Protest Arctic Oil...
The Shard, at over 300 meters tall, is the highest standing skyscraper in all of Europe. It’s also the home of Shell Oil’s headquarters in Britain. The combination of these factors led six activists...
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