Save the Internet The SOPA/PIPA Money Trail A Media Matters report showed that in the run-up to Jan. 18, when Wikipedia, Google, Reddit and other big sites joined millions of Internet users in one of the biggest online protests to date, only CNN mentioned SOPA and/or PIPA in its nightly …
Book of the Day: The Good of Everyone. The Sharing Economy as a Way Out of the Crisis
Book of the Day: The Good of Everyone. The Sharing Economy as a Way Out of the Crisis This is a very important book, in the process of being translated from the Italian: Enrico Grazinni: “The thesis of this book is that, to overcome the current dramatic economic and ecological …
Video of the Day: Yochai Benkler on the Networked Public Sphere, its SOPA victory, and the MegaUpload case
Video of the Day: Yochai Benkler on the Networked Public Sphere, its SOPA victory, and the MegaUpload case
SOPA and PIPA Dead — for Now
News of the movement for January 20, 2012 Save the Internet SOPA and PIPA Dead — for Now House and Senate leaders have abandoned plans to move on SOPA and PIPA — the surest sign yet that a wave of online protests have killed the controversial anti-piracy legislation for now …
SOPA on Life Support After Web Protests, White House and GOP Rebellion
Save the Internet SOPA on Life Support After Web Protests, White House and GOP Rebellion Controversial anti-piracy legislation, already on life support in the House, is now in serious doubt in the Senate, where the confluence of a Republican rump rebellion, White House concerns and a blackout by Wikipedia, Mozilla …
This weekend near you: A chance to help Get Money Out
This Saturday will be historic for all the wrong reasons. It’s the second anniversary of Citizens United, the Supreme Court decision that paved the way for billionaires and special interests to spend unlimited money on super PACs—the same so-called independent organizations that have spent twice as much money in the presidential …
The Future of Occupy e-Newsletter, January 2012
We at Ethical Markets Media (USA and Brazil) welcome this new FUTURE OF OCCUPY Newsletter, which we will post regularly, thanks to the team! “Occupy will never die; Evict us, we multiply!” Welcome to The Future of Occupy newsletter! This issue results from the labor of love by The Future …
Honoring President Vaclav Havel
By Hazel Henderson Philosopher-poet-playwright and global citizen, Václav Havel was the freedom fighter who led the Czech people to independence from Soviet Russian occupation. He became their first president in 1989 after the peaceful “velvet revolution” swept this brave man into power with massive support and the slogan “Havel to …
Hundreds Temporarily Shutdown Access to Port of Long Beach
Hundreds Temporarily Shutdown Access to Port of Long Beach Occupy Shuts Down Ports of Seattle, Portland, Oakland and Longview Economists Support Occupy Movement Say NO to the Use of the Military in the United States The Truth Hurts–And Heals An Open Letter from America’s Port Truck Drivers on Occupy the …
Stallman: Facebook IS Mass Surveillance
Stallman: Facebook IS Mass Surveillance The father of free software philosophy spoke to RT on evil developers, spying social networks, the almost-legitimacy of Anonymous hacks and the condition under which he would take a proprietary program and a million dollars. Stallman is the man behind the concept that every computer …