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Videos
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Local Media for Social Change: A Southern California Regional Summit on March 21, 2009
How happy are you with your local news? How are the issues you care about being covered? If you are concerned that our democracy and your community are being under-served by the state of today's media, then you should join us for this informative half-day summit. Saturday, March 21, 2009 @ Occidental College. More info here (copy & paste link): http://www.commoncause.org/mediasummit
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Know Your Rights: Univ. Dec. of Human Rights on US Passports
Nobel Peace prize-winning Aung San Suu Kyi, Prime Minister elect of Burma, has been censored, monitored and put under house arrest for the last 16 years by the military regime. Human rights are broken every day all over the world. Printing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, written by Eleanor Roosevelt and ratified by the U.N. in 1948, is the first step for everyone in the world to know and defend their rights.
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Interview with a publisher of a newspaper in the country of Uganda, Part 2
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Right Livelihood Award, Sweden, Stockholm, alternative Nobel Prize,
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The Lady of Burma: The Fearless Voice of a Nation
Free Aung San Suu Kyi and the people of Burma!
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"In the Quiet land" - A poem by Daw Aung San Suu Kyi
This is a poem written by Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel Peace Prize winner and a prisoner of consience in her own country.
Articles
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Global Hunger A 'Crisis In Democracy'
After our interaction with the Yoder family I concluded that true sustainability in this day and age might just be a myth.
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Deepak Chopra on Gay Marriage and the Democratic Hazard
What gives the anti-gay marriage forces their influence comes down to moral hazard.
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Is there a religious reason to vote for or against Obama or McCain?
An article in the Washington Post On Faith section in response to their question: Is there a religious reason to vote for or against Obama or McCain?
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Meaningful Art: Envisioning Change
Artists have played a great role in this election by raising awareness about the voting process and helped to define the candidates’ public images.
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Internet filter an assault on freedom
The Australian Government is committed to introducing a "radical and ill-conceived" regulatory proposal to filter the internet.
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In a just world, the names Min Ko Naing and Ko Ko Gyi would be as well known as Steve Biko and Adam Michnik.
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HIV/AIDS Risk High Among Political Prisoners
Political prisoners in Burma run a high risk of contracting HIV/AIDS because of unhygienic medical treatment, according to reports.
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Myanmar activist follows dad, grandfather to jail
A court in military-ruled Myanmar sentenced a student activist to 6 1/2 years in jail on Wednesday, a week after his father received a 65-year prison term.
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Burma Tries To Silence Opposition
A new crackdown on the country’s dissidents shows that Than Shwe’s junta fears the power of the Internet.
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Join Amnesty International's Global Write-a-thon
Write letters on behalf of prisoners of conscience and human rights defenders at risk of severe human rights violations.
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Our Rights, Douye! Yes We Can, Douye!
How would we respond if immediately after being elected our President, Barack Obama were placed under house arrest, unable to take up his position?
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Immigrants See Charter Schools as a Haven
Charter schools have become havens where immigrant children are shielded from the American youth culture that pervades large district schools.
Events
- FLASH MOB FOR BURMA Location: Abbot Kinney Blvd, Venice, CA Between California and Millwood
People
- ibstvliberty
- mgpolar101 Venice, CA
- GiboyASSKFreedom Dublin, IRELAND
- MrZAP
Blog posts
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Special coverage on Democracy NOW: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., 1929-1968
Documentary Special coverage on Democracy NOW: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., 1929-1968 By Andreas Klamm Washington, D.C. / New York City/January 19, 2009/Democracy NOW!/3mnewswire.org/-- Th...
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Just when my cynicism begins to get the best of me and i decide that the human race isn't worth a wooden nickel some small miracle of human expression sparks the fire, fills the tank, and does 5...
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Special Causecast movie screening this Wednesday
Come join Causecast tonight in Santa Monica for an exclusive screening of the documentary "All the Way Home" by filmmaker and journalist Edward Nachtrieb. Edward's still photography has been fe...
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Special Causecast movie screening this Wednesday
Come join Causecast tonight in Santa Monica for an exclusive screening of the documentary "All the Way Home" by filmmaker and journalist Edward Nachtrieb. Edward's still photography has been fea...
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The real surge, not the one in Iraq, for human rights came at the end of the last century. Communism disappeared without bullets flying. Southern Africans had majority rule. Military dictators had ...
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Who Will Save Burma's Women and Children?
By Nilar Thein Published on June 19, 2008 (The Nation) I woke up from a dream in the middle of the night. I was with my daughter, playing in a small garden. We were playing hide and seek. I ...
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The real surge, not the one in Iraq, for human rights came at the end of the last century. Communism disappeared without bullets flying. Southern Africans had majority rule. Military dictators had ...
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Aung San Suu Kyi: Burma’s Unsung Hero
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi (pronounced Daw Aung Sawn Sue Chee) is one of the world’s most renowned freedom fighters and advocates of nonviolence, having served as the figurehead for Burma’s struggle for ...
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Meeting Ron Kovic (Born on the Fourth of July)
In Santa Ana, CA, at the Orange County Center for Contemporary Art (OCCA), their curator decided to do one of the best damn things in the world, have an exhibit that showed politically charged Art....
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Kelly Picks a Fight: Racist Ass-hats
There was a headline story on "Democracy Now!" recently that thoroughly upset me. It was about the increase in racist rhetoric and hate crimes in the age of Obama. Most of us know that he has recei...
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Liberal is derived from liber, which can literally be defined as the state or quality of being free. In the dust jacket of Ms. Coulter's new book it says, "Liberals loyalty to the United States i...
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Ask Congress to find out how the U.S. became a nation that tortures.
"The era of responsibility is not never making mistakes, it's owning up to them and trying to make sure you do not repeat them." – President Obama, February 3rd Our chance to learn from,...
