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Is This Activism?

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:08:44 -0800
Hundreds of websites (TechCrunch included) have gone dark or visibly changed their appearance as a protest against the Stop Online Privacy Act and its Senate doppelganger, the PROTECT IP Act. It's a powerful statement and many are saying that it is already producing effects: Senators are changing positions, awareness is rising, and the opposition is becoming a dinner-table topic. But is this ...
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President of National Association of Attorneys General Accepts Petitions From More Than 720,000 Americans Calling for ...

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:24:00 -0800
SEATTLE , Jan. 11, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- On National Human Trafficking Awareness Day ( January 11 th ), ethical beauty retailer, The Body Shop, alongside campaign partners ECPAT USA and The Somaly Mam ...
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It’s your world, you can change it, activist tells conference

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 18:43:16 -0800
The world belongs to you.
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Youth, Good Governance, Human Development

Sun, 15 Jan 2012 15:32:08 -0800
Speech during the National Congress on Good Governance, UP NCPAG, January 15, 2012. The keywords of my presentation are youth, good governance, and sustainable human development. The thesis is easy to formulate: The youth have a significant role to perform in promoting good governance in the country to achieve sustainable human development. But how do [...]
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Marshall Curry: Director, Oscar-Nominated Documentary If A Tree Falls

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 11:56:30 -0800
Marshall Curry has profiled NASCAR hopefuls and Newark Mayor Corey Booker (which earned him an Oscar nomination ), and his latest, If A Tree Falls, follows the plight of Daniel McGowan, a former member of the Earth Liberation Front, a group that the F.B.I. once dubbed "America's #1 domestic terrorist threat." Curry traces McGowan's journey from his identity as the mild-mannered son of an NYPD ...
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