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Speak up today for Net Neutrality as Condition of Merger

Speak up today for Net Neutrality as Condition of Merger

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Remind the FCC and Congress that they must serve the public interest by making nondiscrimination on the Internet a permanent condition of the AT&T-BellSouth merger. Be heard today! Take Action Don’t Let Ma Bell Monopolize the Internet The AT&T and BellSouth merger would resurrect the Ma Bell monopoly that ruled communications for decades. But this new corporate behemoth would no longer control just phone calls. The new AT&T wants to become gatekeepers to all digital media — television, telephone and…

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America Ranks 53rd on Freedom of the Press

America Ranks 53rd on Freedom of the Press

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Reporters Without Borders’s Global Press Freedom Index tracks actions against news media. America’s ranks 53rd on press freedom. We’re between Tonga and Uruguay. Home of “freedom of the press,” the United States entered the list – when it started in 2002 – at 17th place. We fell nine places just since last year. “The steady erosion of press freedom in the United States, France and Japan is extremely alarming,” Reporters Without Borders said. They particularly concerned this year about how…

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Joseph Nechvatal – New Works

Joseph Nechvatal – New Works

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Joseph Nechvatal is a “chef extraordinaire” of the artworld. Using the ingredients of source images, viral codes and attacks, computer-robotic collaboration, as well as his own creative, activist, theoretical sensibilities, he serves up luscious feasts of haunting, liminal images. Nechvatal’s “viractual” digital paintings are dynamic in a way that belies their 2-dimensionality. Pregnant with an almost mystical awareness of new kinds of consciousness, these works embody rhizomatic interconnections that still defy linguistic articulation (at least, they still defy mine, although…

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Armchair activism for today

Armchair activism for today

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Stop New Pollution and Global Security Threats from Nuclear Waste The US has a serious nuclear waste problem, and like the rest of the world, we have found no solution. Nonetheless, the White House is proposing a giant program to import and reprocess foreign spent fuel. In his current budget, the Bush Administration proposed the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP) which would make major changes to U.S. policies regarding the global management of spent nuclear fuel. Under GNEP, “supplier” countries…

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Mean, Loathsome Individuals

Mean, Loathsome Individuals

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These people – yes, that’s the perjorative phrase “these people” – fill me with bewilderment, disgust and just plain old loathing. Baby used as a weapon: In Erie, Pennsylvania, a month-old baby was critically injured when anti-mom Chytoria Graham (27) “allegedly” swung the baby through the air to strike her boyfriend – with her baby – in a domestic dispute. The baby suffers from a fractured skull and bleeding in the brain. Four other children were removed from the home….

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The Torch is out

The Torch is out

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“Let the world go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage, and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today, at home and around the world!”…

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