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• Copenhagen Countdown: A bite-size briefing on climate change

  
  The British National Party — Authority: 606
  HERE’S a bite-size guide to some of the arguments that you might hear next week at the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. BNP leader Nick Griffin will be attending the Conference as a representative of the European Parliament. 1.   Tsunamis are caused by tectonic plate movements, not climate change. 2. ...
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• 4.22-24.10 - Geno speaks - NewComm Forum 2010 - San Mateo, CA

  
  Brains On Fire Blog — Authority: 466
  Geno returns for the third year in a row to present at the meeting of the minds that is the New Communications Forum. This time, the topic will be “The WOM Confessional: Lessons Learned in Creating Brand Movements.” Keep an eye on the website for details . But put this one on your calendar now, as it’s a ...
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• Malema walks out of SACP congress – what does it all mean?

  
  The Wild Frontier — Authority: 126
  JULIUS Malema, the ANC Youth Leagues extrovert leader was given short shrift by the South African Communist Party today.Malema demanded the right to address the delegates, apparently because he deems himself worthy of airtime and more than a mere delegate.He was turned down by the party’s Gwede Mantashe who doubles ...
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• Obama: Afghanistan troop drawdown schedule is firm (AP)

  
  Relevant News — Authority: 178
  AP - President Barack Obama says the United States will begin withdrawing troops from Afghanistan in July 2011 even if the exact pace and details of the movements will depend on conditions at the time.
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• Healthy Habits: Steps You Can Take Towards Arthritis Prevention

  
  Healthy Living Times — Authority: 138
  Arthritis is a common cause of pain in the joints, especially among the elderly. Persistent, aggrivating, and excruciating, arthritis is capable of reducing the quality of your life by hindering your everyday movements. Arthritis prevention is reliant on an early diagnosis. Once you are diagnosed with arthritis, ...
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• “The loophole could doom the polar bears –act now”

  
  Nature's Crusaders — Authority: 125
  The good news The Obama administration wants to set aside 200,000 square miles of coastal lands and sea ice along the north coast of Alaska that would be designated as “critical habitat” for the polar bear. Administration officials put forward the habitat proposal, which is required under the Endangered Species ...
  16 hours ago

• coalitions and coordination in tea party organizing

  
  orgtheory.net — Authority: 519
  Michael Tomasky’s provocative article a little while back in the NYRB, which discussed the Tea Parties and new right-wing protest movements, had me thinking about what initial insights social movement theory can offer to understanding this recent wave of activism. There are clearly certain aspects of this — such ...
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• Get Up in Copenhagen: Day 1

  
  Sustainable Melbourne — Authority: 125
  Source: Get UpG’day from Copenhagen!Things have kicked off here for the most important meeting of our time – and what an amazing scene it is: tens of thousands of delegates, observers, and media all packed in to one space in the Danish capital.  Our team is here on the ground, and have put together the [...]
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• Nick Von Hoffman on Alinsky

  
  Wade Rathke: Chief Organizer Blog — Authority: 128
  New Orleans Driving back from a union bargaining session at the NASA Michoud facility I just missed a call from a 207 area code.  Returning the call, it was a pleasant surprise to find the caller was none other than Nicholas von Hoffman, who is somewhat known to people now for his journalistic and broadcasting ...
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• Greenpeace artik anlasa...

  
  blog of flux and flow: — Authority: 114
  Enerji Bakanı Taner Yildizin Greenpeacei ziyaret etmesi gercekten harika bisey mi? En cevreci basbakandan sonra bir de en demokrat enerji bakanimiz mi oludu? Greenpeacein Enerji Bakanı Taner Yildizin ziyareti sirasinda, "ikna edemediyseniz ikna olacaksiniz, nukleer ile yasamaya haziriz" gibi cumlelere EVINDE sahne ...
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• Protesters Challenge Skeptics: The Earth is Round and Climate Change is Real

  
  Sociology Lens — Authority: 419
  by smteixeirapoit The United Nations Climate Change Conference is taking place in Copenhagen from December 7 th to 18 th . Prior to the start of the conference, members of an action group, Stop Climate Chaos, organized demonstrations encouraging world leaders to advance a world climate change agreement. Around the ...
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• A Time to Conspire: The Copenhagen Moment

  
  banned librarian — Authority: 99
  The new issue of Left Turn magazine is out with an important article about this week’s convergence in Copenhagen by my colleague Gopal Dayaneni. Here’s a preview. Movement Generation Justice and Ecology Project “Imagine waking up on December 1, 1999, and learning about the World Trade Organization for the ...
  3 days ago

• When Allies Fail, Part I

  
  Racialicious - the intersection of race and pop culture — Authority: 626
  By Guest Contributor Tami, originally published at What Tami Said [In the following post about allies, I am confining my discussion to anti-racism and feminism because those are the movements with which I am most familiar. I hope, though, that these ideas have broader application. ] Allies are important to ...
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• Khanya College Hosts a Launch for The Poverty of Ideas

  
  Jacana — Authority: 469
  Don’t miss the Khanya College launch of William Gumede and Leslie Dikeni’s The Poverty of Ideas - a book that storms South Africa’s intellectual citadels: Event Details Date : Saturday, 12 December 2009 Time : 11:30 AM for 12:00 PM Venue : House of Movements, 123 Pritchard Street (cnr Mooi) ...
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• The Future of Freedom In The Internet Age

  
  Steffan Antonas's Blog — Authority: 111
  Today there’s a big push to make Internet Access a basic human right . In the US, the majority of us take freedom of speech (online and offline) for granted and we tune out the debates on heavy censorship that is commonplace in other countries. If you’re not aware of the kind of control and manipulation that’s ...
  3 days ago

• advice to activists: use the primaries

  
  orgtheory.net — Authority: 519
  Recently, a student asked me what I would recommend to social movement activists. Among movement tactics, I’ve decided that primary challenges are severely underrated by most activists and that most movements should focus more on primaries. If you go to many movement events, you have lots of talk about grassroots ...
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• Supreme Court petition against Proclamation 1959

  
  tonyocruz.com — Authority: 118
  The National Union of People’s Lawyers, Bayan Muna Rep. Satur Ocampo, Gabriela Rep. Liza Maza, Bayan Secretary-General Renato Reyes Jr. and this blogger today went to the Supreme Court to file “A Very Urgent Petition for Certiorari and Prohibition with Very Urgent Application for a Temporary Restraining Order ...
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• Guerilla Gardens & forward-thinking councils

  
  Sustainable Melbourne — Authority: 125
  Source: Friends of the Earth MelbourneImage: ubrayj02 via flickr CC From “Guerilla Gardeners Get a Green Light“, by Sue JacksonAt its regular monthly meeting in August, Melbourne’s Yarra Council won itself a green star for forward thinking. Instead of razing local unauthorised street gardens as it had threatened ...
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• Women : The Secret Weapon of the Marijuana Reform Movement

  
  The Rag Blog — Authority: 559
  Art from Anne of Carversville.The secret to legal marijuana?It may just be womenBy Daniela Perdomo / December 6, 2009In September, ladymag Marieclaire ruffled some feathers when it published a piece about women who smoke weed. But its most interesting effect was not the "marijuana moms" chatter it unleashed, and ...
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• On the nature of the new social movements

  
  P2P Foundation — Authority: 528
  From an interview of Paul Hawken : (of whom we also strongly recommend this wonderful commencement address , given to Portland students) * You write about how this evolving movement will look very different from movements of the past. There’s no charismatic leader, no center. It’s not ideological. ...
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