Obama Soundtrack to feature Kanye West and more

This sounds Obamasistible! Pro-Barack rockers, rappers, and singers such as Stevie Wonder, Kanye West, John Legend, Jill Scott, and Sheryl Crow have contributed songs to the album "Yes We Can: Voices of a Grassroots...

Next Fundraiser Scheduled for The Wooden Cow Gallery and Art Space!

"Our next HUGE Yard Sale Fundraiser is taking place on Saturday, June 28th, 2008. Mark your calendars now!   All proceeds benefit The Wooden Cow Gallery and Art Space, a local grassroots creative co-op devoted to promoting arts awareness, while improving the lives and...

Photos from Anonymous Protest of Scientology in Englewood/Denver, Colorado, U...

Some pics I took at the Anonymous protests/pickets/raids of Scientology on February and April 8th 2008. These pics are specifically from the raids of the Organization in Englewood, Colorado, USA, a suburb of Denver,...

BBC closes £1.3m experiment in grassroots online democracy

In a few days’ time, on April 30, the BBC will close down its experiment in grassroots democracy, the Action Network.The project started life five years ago as BBC iCan. According to the people involved at the time, iCan was a significant change for public service...

Own Your Media - Vancouver

To be honest, I don't know much about this project but it looks interesting:"“The media is the place where we have a discussion with each other. We can't know everyone individually. We do it through the media. When the kitchen table that we all sit around is controlled by a...

When Users Attack

Sites that focus on user-generated content put tremendous power in the hands of those users. Such power can be used for the good of the community, or for ill. What's an admin to do? A panel at SXSWi (South by...

'MoveOn' Endorses Obama

The highly mobilized, grassroots political movement and social media site MoveOn.org has -- for the first time -- publicly endorsed a candidate for the 2008 election: Barack Obama."The grassroots politics site...

Grassroots Push for Impeachment Continues

" Grassroots Push for Impeachment Continues by Ben Terrall / January 22nd, 2008 Though it seems to have made little impression on the Democratic Party’s leadership, grassroots pressure for impeachment proceedings against Vice President Cheney and President Bush...

Giving sounds good

The Vancouver Sun's David Baines has published a piece on Tom William's new charity site GiveMeaning.  Baines concludes his article by saying:"He said the financial return for the year ending Sept. 30, 2007, which is just now being filed, will show a greater percentage...

BLACKWATER : THE SHADOW WAR

If the Republicans lose in 2008, they will leave office armed and dangerous. Bush's Praetorian Guard could presage the final stage in the collapse of American democracy. http://www.indypendent.org/?p=1230 The...

BLACKWATER : THE CRUSADE

The privatization of the army undermines the "real one".   It parallels the process by which the US middle class now competes with brutalized children in third world factories. We've now experienced...

So far, Kucinich money bomb only at 1% of Dec. 15th goal

With just 8 days to go in Kucinich's "money bomb" grassroots movement, the goal of $10 million is still a long way off.As of 12/7/07, the current pledged amount is only at $100,000.  Not small by any means, but still nowhere near the desired $10,000,000.

US - Canada War Looms over Energy, Water

"Washington's new tensions with its northern neighbor and largest trading partner appear to be over perceived Canadian reticence to support US imperial adventures in the Middle East. But the vast resources of Canada...

Can We Stop the War With Iran?

In this article Ray McGovern explores how  the war against yet another enemy of the world, Iran, can be packaged and sold as a product we can't do without. Could this be done with the help of the usual...

Why Oblivion Looms for Abbas

"Mark Perry offers 10 reasons why Hamas, rather than Abu Mazen and his U.S. backers will prevail in the struggle for Palestinian hearts and minds. The Islamists today represent the Palestinian mainstream, while Fatah is broken from top to bottom. Even more importantly, Abbas...

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