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Edwards and Permanent Military bases in Iraq

By On January 14, 2007 · Leave a Comment

A few months ago I was invited by Sen. John Edwards to attend a dinner with several local bloggers. It was a exciting and wonderful evening of good food and excellent conversation. I was nervous and wondered how I ended up there. I suppose its because of my blog post

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Impeach G.W. Bush

By On January 12, 2007 · Leave a Comment

They other day I voted to impeach George W. Bush. Sadly we don’t have a US gov sponsored direct election sans electoral college to impeach presidents. I did the next best thing: VoteToImpeach.org.

I used to wonder how signing petitions made a difference. Then I signed one in VA to get Ralph Nader [...]

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Edwards 2008 and What we can Do NOW

By On December 29, 2006 · Leave a Comment

Ruby and I recorded a video response to John Edwards’ video on YouTube called Tomorrow Begins Today. It was easy and fun to do.

This response came about from a phone conference call for bloggers we were on the day before Mr. Edwards announced. I was most impressed by his call for [...]

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Make Net Neutrality the Law

By On December 19, 2006 · Leave a Comment

From SaveTheInternet.com

Similar footage in this vid as the Humanity Lobotomy – Save the Internet by FourEyedMonsters. Which one do you like better?

Humanity Lobotomy – Second Draft

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Geek Activism Ideas

By On December 19, 2006 · Leave a Comment

In my post Activists and Geeks unite! a commenter left a great link to Devanshu Mehta‘s 95 Theses of Geek Activism. I put them here bellow the fold for you to read. [Thank you Devanshu for using the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License.] Please go check out Devanshu’s site and [...]

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Activists and Geeks unite!

By On December 15, 2006 · 2 Comments

FOSS stands for Free and Open Source Software. WordPress, the software that runs this blog, is FOSS. Apache, the software that serves the majority of web sites is, FOSS. These are tools used by people all over the world to advocate for change. When you promote your cause online there is a high chance [...]

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