From Tar Sands Blockade: Several protestors with Tar Sands Blockade sealed themselves inside a section of pipe destined for the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline to stop construction of the dangerous project. Using a blockading technique never implemented before, Matt Almonte and Glen Collins locked themselves between two barrels of concrete weighing over six hundred [...]
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Who Holds the Electorate Accountable?
We the Electorate regularly complain, with excellent and multiple reasons, about Electeds who don’t fulfill even some sliver of campaign promises. We fairly often talk about “accountability,” about that “holding their feet to the fire” thing. It’s a kind of campaign promise in reverse, Electorate to wannabe Electeds: I’ll be watching you. If you don’t [...]
Kony 2012 Co-Founder Arrested Drunk & Masturbating in Public
Whoa, this isn’t exactly the way to celebrate success. Forgive me if I’m jaded, but I lived in Los Angeles, Beverly Hills specifically, way too long to appreciate hospitalization of instant celebrities as anything more than a PR means to avoid prosecution and losing everything. Jezebel has further details, including Russell’s weird family fantasies that [...]
TRENDING: Invisible Children, Joseph Kony and the LRA
A little-known American charity dedicated to helping victims of African conflict has scored a public relations coup. Invisible Children’s new 30-minute Kony 2012 video, directed by Jason Russell, has been viewed over 440,000 times since being placed on YouTube on March 5. The film is intended to raise public awareness of the devastating Lord’s Resistance [...]
Who defines the rights of activists?
Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. In the Occupy pieces I’ve been posting, the general topic of activism has come up several times, and since civil disobedience and activism are obviously related to our political system, and so to this Two Parties, Too Few Choices series, I decided to spend some [...]
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Liberally Independent: The Occupation continues …
Joyce L. Arnold: Liberal, lesbian, Independent, equality activist, writer. Occupy Wall Street, having reached the point where the MSM could no longer ignore and/or disdainfully dismiss it, now has the challenge of keeping the interest of a society notorious for a short attention span. All of this seems as much about the rest of us [...]
Queer Talk: Unrest and 2012
Joyce L. Arnold: Liberal, lesbian, Independent, equality activist, writer. Kerry Eleveld’s recent article, What Gay Rights Activists Can Teach the Left About Winning, is an important take on activism, LGBT and otherwise, in this 2012 election cycle. She begins: Remember when you believed that if we just elected enough Democrats to Congress and took the [...]
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