The Southern California Tax Revolt Coalition is reporting that their tax revolt event on May 16 may have been a major contributing factor to Californians voting No on Tax increases to fund out of control spending...
"Rachel Maddow reported on the different tea parties across America, some of the meanest signs ("Obama is Hitler shoveling people into ovens") and the actual numbers of what the GOP called the "biggest grassroots...
WMAT News - Wednesday was the deadline to file your federal income tax. Wednesday was also the day of the nationwide Tax Day Tea Party protest.
The protest was held to speak out against taxation, wasteful spending, and big government.
It’s is estimated that...
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A new bicycle advocacy group has emerged in the nations capitol. They call themselves the D.C. Ministry Of Bicycles or D.C. MOB for short. Despite what their abbreviated title suggests they are...
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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...
"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...
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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...
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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...
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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...
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