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29 Sep 09

Everyday-Democracy.org: New report outlines how to strengthen our democracy

  • a new plan for engaging everyday people in  selecting leaders, influencing laws and regulations, and taking public action.
  • The "Working Together to Build a Stronger Democracy" full conference report provides detailed recommendations for both the Administration and the democracy reform movement itself.
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19 Jun 09

Apophasis, or The Power of 'Not' | HighCallingBlogs.com

  • “I take the first two lines of someone else’s poem and rewrite it for them out
    of courtesy.”)
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06 May 09

Single Payer Action

Project web site for Single Payer Health Insurance activism

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06 Apr 09

Debategraph home

Format debates with this interactive map.

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23 Mar 09

Lawrence Lessig: AIG: Will We Solve the Underlying Problem?

Confront our congressional candidates for either a clean money system or more special interest financing.

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campaign finance reform

18 Mar 09

Editorial: Violence in Mexico is a growing threat | Editorials | Star-Telegram.com

  • A State Department travel advisory, gaining attention as the spring break ritual heats up at high school and college campuses nationwide, warns that visitors to Mexico have been injured and killed in public places, and "dozens of U.S. citizens have been kidnapped across Mexico."

    The advisory specifically cautioned against excursions to Matamoros and Nuevo Progreso — "popular destinations for spring breakers to South Padre Island" — and to Tijuana and Rosarito Beach in Baja California.

27 Feb 09

Change the Web Conversations’s Chat Logs from February 26th, 2009 - meebo rooms


  • 12:14 Ivan Boothe, Rootwork.org So my first experience using Facebook in that way was in 2005


    12:14 Ivan Boothe, Rootwork.org The Genocide Intervention Network was just getting off the ground


    12:14 JoeSolomon @vangogh This is our first Change the Web conversation, Thanks for your patience!


    12:15 Ivan Boothe, Rootwork.org Our network of activists was trying to move a particular bill on Darfur through Congress. We knew we had the votes in the full Senate, but one particular senator was holding it up in committee


    12:15 Ivan Boothe, Rootwork.org So we used Facebook to identify Darfur activists in that senator's home state


    12:16 Ivan Boothe, Rootwork.org Then, we gave them all a training on how to use the website OpenSecrets.org, which lists publicly available campaign contribution information


    12:16 Gian okay turned sound on but not hearing anything. so I wil just read


    12:16 Ivan Boothe, Rootwork.org And we had them contact that senator's highest donors


    12:16 Ivan Boothe, Rootwork.org And ask *them* to contact the senator and request that the Darfur bill be moved through the committee


    12:17 Ivan Boothe, Rootwork.org We had a few dozen students participate, and while it's hard to measure reliably, two weeks later the senator did indeed move the bill, after several months of not doing anything


    12:17 JoeSolomon That's an amazing story!


    12:17 @keka_marzagao wow, amazing Ivan!


    12:17 Ivan Boothe, Rootwork.org The bill ultimately passed and became the Darfur Peace and Accountability Act


    12:17 Ivan Boothe, Rootwork.org I've got more stories, but I'll leave it there for now


    12:17 bethP Sounds like you successfully mobilized a community of supporters using the Facebook platform in a relatively short amount of time.


    12:17 bethP Thanks Ivan

18 Feb 09

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