Tag: activism
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Scenarios for #topprog: your thoughts?
Last night’s #topprog Tweetup, discussing the next steps for the new progressive Twitter hashtag, had some excellent discussions.  Chris Cardinal (aka @cacardinal) has set up a skeleton web page on topprog.org and did a great job facilitating the tweetup; he’ll be writing up a summary later today.  Somehow, though, I wound up with an…
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“Dailyish updates” (draft post for The Seminal)
Draft. Work in progress — feedback welcome! The revised version will (hopefully) be posted on The Seminal
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#topprog … yeah, that could work
It still bugs me that Steve Elliot’s Get FISA Right: Last Chance To Vote Against Domestic Spying was buried by pro-surveillance diggers after I foolishly twittered it to the #tcot (Top Conservatives on Twitter) channel. So when I got Alan Rosenblatt’s email about a new #topprog hashtag, my immediate response was that we should think…
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The ‘Team of Rivals’ road trip: change.org => change.gov
Executive summary If you were in the finals of the change.org Ideas for Change competition and have (or know of) an equivalent idea in the Citizens Briefing Book on change.gov, please leave a link in the comments — and look for opportunities to co-promote with other compatible ideas. Also please leave other suggestions for how…
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w00t, w00t! Get FISA Right finishes #5 in Ideas for Change! Congratulations and great job all!
With a late rush, Get FISA Right, repeal the PATRIOT Act, and restore our civil liberties squeaked into the #5 position in the change.org’s Ideas for Change in America competition with 12285 votes! Alas, even though our other endorsement Bob Fertik’s Appoint a Special Prosecutor for the Crimes of the Bush Administration picked up over…
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Neocons’ worst nightmare: net movements intersecting in Ideas for Change in America
DREAM Activists and undocumented youth, the Stonewall 2.0 LGBTQ movement, Get FISA Right and civil libertarians, peace activists — together again for the first time, along with a demand for accountability for the last 8 years.  Scary stuff. 🙂 Read on for more … and please digg it! It’s been surprising to me how…
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Get FISA Right: should we endorse the special prosecutor idea?
There’s a voting thread up on the Get FISA Right blog. Current results: 18 yes, 1 no, 1 present (me, since I voted first, to avoid biasing people). Please weigh in!
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Get FISA Right on Ideas for Change: only 72 hours left, five ways to help
Voting in change.org’s Ideas for Change in America competition closes Thursday at 2 p.m. Pacific time. Get FISA Right, repeal the PATRIOT Act, and restore our civil liberties has just fallen to #8, and a couple of the ideas close behind us like Pass the DREAM Act – Support Higher Education for All Students have…
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Stonewall 2.0: Repeal DOMA!
The vibe under the sunshine at the corner of Castro and Market was positive and determined — a few hundred people maybe (I’m horrible at estimating), just the right size for the location. The immediate purpose was to organize for signature-gathering for the Open Letter to President Obama, with people fanning out afterwards to BART…
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Apologies to DREAM Act advocates everywhere …
For the last six weeks of change.org’s Ideas for Change competition, I’ve been consistently impressed by the advocates for Pass the DREAM Act – Support Higher Education for All Students. The network of activists promoting the idea are giving the rest of us lessons in how to do it effectively.*Â And they and their supporters…
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Vote early, promote often: Ideas for Change and Get FISA Right
The second round of voting in change.org’s Ideas for Change in America competition kicked off today. Please vote for Get FISA Right, repeal the PATRIOT Act, and restore our civil liberties — and help promote it! To vote, just click on the Vote here button on the widget on the right. (If your vote doesn’t…
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Mutual guest-blogging 2.0: an idea for “Ideas for Change”?
Last year I proposed an experiment on OpenLeft that involved “mutual guest-blogging“: four great bloggers who didn’t usually hang out there making front-page posts, and in return the OpenLeft front-pagers posting on the other blogs. The idea was to expose bloggers, readers, and commenters to new perspectives, and hopefully build some connections that could lead…
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On to the second round of “Ideas for Change in America”!
Also posted on the new Get FISA Right blog Happy new year! My idea Get FISA Right, repeal the PATRIOT Act, and restore our civil liberties finished #2 in the Criminal Justice category of change.org/MySpace’s Ideas for Change in America competition, and so has advanced to the second round. We can revise the idea over…
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Notes from underground, 2008/2009
What a difference a year makes … the venue’s the same, another New Year’s Eve at SomArts in SF, and Liam’s playing again in the psytrance room. The rest of the world, and my frame of mind? Very different. I’ve been rereading a lot of my posts from the last year as we work on…
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Ideas for Change in America: heading into the homestretch
Executive summary things are still in flux in the change.org/MySpace Ideas for Change in America as we head into the last week of the first round civil liberties (six ideas), drug reform (five ideas), and education (five ideas) dominate the top 30 my idea, Get FISA Right, repeal the PATRIOT Act, and restore our civil…
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“President Obama, please get FISA right” approved by Comcast
Get FISA Right’s cable TV ad for the inauguration has been approved by Comcast — almost two weeks sooner than we had estimated! So now it’s time for grassroots fundraising to put it on the air – in Washington DC, and potentially all around the country. The ad addresses President Obama directly, congratulating him on…
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Photos wanted for the Get FISA Right “inauguration ad”
Were you one of the 23,000 Obama supporters who got together on my.barackobama.com last July to protest his stance on FISA? If so, we’d like to include your photo in a cable TV ad we’re working on with SaysMe.tv that we’ll be broadcasting in Washington DC for the inauguration. Here’s the script: Even though we…
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Turning the Page on FISA (guest-blogging on change.org)
I’ve got a post Turning the Page on FISA on change.org’s Criminal Justice blog today. Here’s the beginning: The coming year will present a unique opportunity for a broad-based activism campaign to restore our civil liberties and begin rolling back key pillars of the national surveillance state institutionalized by the Bush Administration and Congress over…
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Get FISA Right: draft scripts up … feedback please!
First-draft scripts for a few different options for our next round of ads are up on the wiki: Better watch those nuns — and their friends too Obama’s cell-phone records breached Congratulations. Now, get FISA right. Feedback welcome! Discussion thread here … jon PS: in case you missed it, I posted a Get FISA Right…
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Get FISA Right: quick update
Executive Summary Ideas for Change competition: currently #6; please vote for and help promote our idea. Cable TV ads: notes from last conference call are up; next call Saturday; script frozen by Monday. Update, 9:30 pm: draft scripts including “Better watch those nuns — and their friends too” posted. Feedback please! 2009 strategy planning: please…