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• Random Historical Thoughts of a “Shaman”

  
  Din Merican: the Malaysian DJ Blogger — Authority: 433
  November 16,2009 Random Historical Thoughts of a “Shaman” from Magick River: Antares M Like millions of other Malaysians I was looking forward gleefully to witnessing a Pakatan Rakyat government installed in Putrajaya after September 16, 2008 – with Anwar Ibrahim as our sixth prime minister. Sixth… or ...
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• Ecotopia

  
  SMLXL - Engagement Marketing and Communication principles from Alan Moore — Authority: 469
  My good friend Andy Middleton is organising an event called Ecotopia – December 4th 2009 So if you want to follow the No Straight Line rule of doing something. Get over to and get stuck in with Ecotopia. Become the change you want to see in the world.
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• President of the European Council vote

  
  Grahnlaw — Authority: 128
  Eurobloggers have actively spread the word about the vote arranged by Fondation Robert Schuman between some of the personalities officially in the running or presumed to be candidates for the new post of president of the European Council, to be decided by the heads of government or state on 19 November 2009. Here ...
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• One Minute for Peace: A Bigger Piece for Peace (video)

  
  The Click Heard Round the World — Authority: 423
  Heres a one minute video entitled "A Bigger Piece for Peace" conceived, written and filmed by young people at the Brooklyn Quaker Meeting.  I did the editing / post-production of this little video, which will be submitted to the "Bridge Film Festival," sponsored by the Brooklyn Friends School. The short video has ...
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• A Facebook Group Takes On Marriage (and God) in the Middle East

  
  gnovis - Georgetown University's Journal of Communication, Culture & Technology (CCT) — Authority: 126
  “We are witnessing a fundamental change in how individuals can interact with their democracy and experience their role as citizens.  Ideal citizens need not be seen purely as trying to inform themselves about what others have found, so that they can vote intelligently.  They need not be limited to reading the ...
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• Iraqi civil society network recognized

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 435
  The Iraqi nonviolence network La’Onf has been awarded the 2009 Rights & Democracy’s John Humphrey Award in appreciation of its work to promote peaceful and non-violent political alternatives for Iraqis.Formed in 2006, La’Onf is a network of 120 civil society groups from every region, including a number of ...
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• France in Africa: business trumps democracy?

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 435
  If it is the case that the US and Europe are finally converging on democracy support, some had better tell the French, at least if Francophone African democracy advocates are to be believed.“As democracy slips in country after country in the region, France often quietly sides, once again, with the once-and-future ...
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• The new rules of customer engagement

  
  SMLXL - Engagement Marketing and Communication principles from Alan Moore — Authority: 469
  I have been asked to make a presentation about the New Rules of Customer Engagement Monday 16th November organised by Canvas8 and takes place in the offices of the architects BDP. You can find out more information here. Also on the bench are Professor Michael Solomon : Michael will be flying in from ...
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• Problems with capitalism

  
  Teaching Comparative — Authority: 126
  About ten years ago, the joke about the Russian economy was that it took 75 years to discover that communism didnt work, but it only took 10 years to discover that capitalism didnt work. We all know that the second experiment is an ongoing project. The transition to a market economy in Russia is filled with thousands ...
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• The Future of Social-Democracy: Green, Global, and Bottom-Up

  
  The Global Sociology Blog — Authority: 135
  So says one of my favorite thinkers, Mary Kaldor : Social Democracy and Human Security | Social Europe Journal via kwout And here is a fairly long but very interesting video featuring Prof. Kaldor
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• United Nations Development Programme to Honor Outstanding Zimbabwe Volunteer

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 156
  The United Nations will in December honor an outstanding Zimbabwean organization or individual who has excelled in voluntary community work during 2009 with an award. The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) said the winner of the Zimbabwe National Volunteer Award would be revealed during a ceremony to ...
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• Another Weak Case for Staying in Afghanistan

  
  The Beacon — Authority: 607
  Women’s rights were always a main argument behind invading and occupying Afghanistan. Now Malalai Joya , a female member of the Afghan Parliament, has called on Obama to withdraw: Eight years ago, women’s rights were used as one of the excuses to start this war. But today, Afghanistan is still facing ...
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• Democracy jobs

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 435
  Program Assistant for Middle East and North Africa- National Endowment for DemocracyThe National Endowment for Democracy is searching for a Program Assistant for Middle East and North Africa (MENA) to be based in Washington, D.C.To Apply: Applicants should send a resume, cover letter and salary requirements to ...
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• Monitoring Arab reform

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 435
  Egypt’s Islamist opposition is facing leadership challenges, writes Ibrahim el Houdaiby. Increasingly influential Salafist/Qutbi forces are striving to marginalize relatively moderate figures like Essam el-Erian and Abdel Moneim Abul Fotouh.Obsessed with efforts to engineer Gamal Mubarak’s succession to his ...
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• Events

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 435
  November 16, 2009. U.S. Private and Non-U.S. Funding of Media Development, featuring: Anne Nelson, Author, Experimentation and Evolution in Private U.S. Funding of Media Development; Mary Myers, Author, Funding for Media Development by Major Donors Outside the United States. With comments by: Marjorie Rouse, Internews ...
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• Transparency and the web a rolling debate

  
  SMLXL - Engagement Marketing and Communication principles from Alan Moore — Authority: 469
  Lawrence Lessig raises what will be a increasingly intense debate, and the perils of openness in government If health care reform ever emerges from Congress, it is certain to spread nationally a project to require doctors to reveal to an Internet-linked database any financial interests they may have in any drug ...
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• Networked organisations: the starfish revolution

  
  SMLXL - Engagement Marketing and Communication principles from Alan Moore — Authority: 469
  Samples from Smartmobs and orginated by Michael Leeden Several thoughtful people have commented on an unusual element in the Iranian revolutionary movement, aka “The Green Path of Hope.”  Although there is a troika (Mousavi, Karroubi and Khatami) that inspires many of the movement’s participants, there ...
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• Volunteers Help Turkana’s Nomads Grapple With Drought and Illness (Humanitarian News / Merlin-USA / Reuters / Alert News)

  
  Desertification — Authority: 149
  Read at : Humanitarian Newshttp://humanitariannews.org/blog/20091111/volunteers-help-turkanas-nomads-grapple-drought-illnesshttp://www.alertnet.org/thenews/fromthefield/merlusa/125797032396.htmVolunteers Help Turkana’s Nomads Grapple With Drought and Illness11 Nov 2009 20:06:00 GMTSource: Merlin – USAAlex Cottin, ...
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• Ten Years Ago: “Manufacturing Dissent” in Seattle

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 571
  Ten Years Ago: “Manufacturing Dissent” in Seattle Seattle and Beyond: Disarming the New World Order by Michel Chossudovsky Covert Action Quarterly – 1999-11-24 Author’s Note This article published under the title Seattle and Beyond: Disarming the New World Order was written ten years ago in ...
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• The tenuous link between breaking / b-boying and conflict resolution

  
  The Click Heard Round the World — Authority: 423
  For an upcoming workshop at Global Kids, Ive been doing some investigation into the links between conflict resolution and breaking / b-boying.  The evidence that Ive seen is very thin and unsubstantiated at this point, largely based on a few period dancers recollections and assertions.  Heres some theories: ...
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