Pirate Party: a Global Civil Rights Movement
By PP International. Pirate Parties are in place or being formed in over 50 countries. See the Principles of Pirate Party.
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How to Blackout Your Site Wed Jan 18th to Protest PIPA
By Jon Fox, Torbit. PIPA will come up for a vote on Tue Jan 24th in the U.S. Senate. Although SOPA is indefinitely postponed, the protest against PIPA is still on. Here’s how to blackout your site on Wed Jan 18.
Continue reading →PIPA Fight Still On, Wikipedia Joins Wed Jan 18th Blackout
By Andrew Couts, Digital Trends | Background, Haiti Chery. The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) vote has been delayed indefinitely, but the equally intrusive Protect IP Act (PIPA) is still scheduled for a U.S. Senate vote on Tue Jan 24th. Reddit, BoingBoing, Mojang, Destructoid, Anonymous, Wikipedia (English) and the entire Cheezburger Network have announced blackouts for Wed Jan 18th to protest PIPA.
Continue reading →Soyinka: Nigeria Heads for Civil War
By Sunday Okobi, This Day. Nigerian Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka, warns that his country is heading towards a civil war and blames political leaders who spread religious intolerance.
Continue reading →Nigeria: Billions Siphoned by Corruption Could Have Been Used to Maintain Fuel Subsidy | Nigeria: La corrupción encendió la mecha
By Mustapha Muhammad, IPS. Nigeria is paralyzed by protests and a nationwide strike against the lifting of a fuel subsidy that could have been maintained if billions of dollars had not been lost to corruption. (English | Spanish)
Continue reading →MoveYourDomain to Protest Internet Blacklist Bills
By Rainey Reitman, Electronic Frontier Foundation. To protest the internet censorship bills SOPA and PIPA, several companies are challenging the internet community to transfer domain names and offering special deals for these transfers.
Continue reading →Block a January 24th U.S. Senate Vote to Censor Online Communication
By Jane Wells, Word Press Planet. Internet censorship bill SOPA PIPA to allow the U.S. government to take down web sites (presumed to be involved in copyright infringement) will be voted on by the Senate on Tuesday, January 24th. Unless 41 senators can be found to help block this vote, it is going to pass.
Continue reading →Energy Return on Investment (EROI) Nears Limit for Oil and Gas Discovery, Production
By Jay Kimball, 8020 Vision. Producing a barrel of oil consumes more and more energy. As we approach an EROI of 1:1 (in other words, consuming 1 barrel of oil to produce 1 barrel of oil) it’s game over.
Continue reading →Bigger Greenhouse Gas Footprint from Fracking
By Lynn Herrmann, Digital Journal. According to a study by scientists at Cornell University, compared to conventional oil, gas, or coal, the shale gas from hydraulic fracturing (fracking) has a greater impact on climate change because of a bigger greenhouse effect due to release of high levels of methane.
Continue reading →Fracking for Shale Gas Pollutes Water, Leads to Earthquakes
Staff, British Columbia Women’s Institute Josh Fox, You Tube. Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is looking increasingly like a technology that will have to be left alone, not only because it pollutes the atmosphere and water, but also because the high-pressure injection of waste water from this process is thought to allow ancient faults to slip, leading to earthquakes.
Continue reading →Hunger in the U.S.
By Staff, Minority News | Black Radio Network. A USDA report shows that “food insecurity” (hunger) is high for households near or below the poverty line ($22,350 for a family of four) — typically households with children headed by a single woman or man, and black and Hispanic households.
Continue reading →Haitians Emigrating to Brazil Undocumented
iBy Staff, Listín Diario | By Najla Passos, Carta Maior | Translated from Spanish and Portuguese by David Holmes Morris for lo-de-alla. Some 500 undocumented Haitian immigrants entered the Brazilian city of Brasileia, in the last three days of 2011. The illegal entry might have been dangerous and mediated by human traffickers. On Feb 2, 2012, during a visit to Haiti, Brazilian President Dilma Rousef said her country would grant Haitians 1,200 visas per year for the next five years. (English | Spanish | Portuguese)
Continue reading →Eight U.S. States Raise Minimum Wage
By Dick Meister, Truthout | Brock Haussamen blog | US Dept of Labor. When the minimum wage is adjusted for inflation, one can see that its real value has dropped since 1978. So these increases in the minimum wage are overdue. Unlike the rich, minimum-wage workers spend virtually all that they earn on necessities. So when the minimum wage is increased, this raises the demand for goods and services and leads to job creation.
Continue reading →Dutch Brewer Heineken Swallows Up Haiti’s National Brewery
By Staff, Yahoo | Commentary by Dady Chery for Haiti Chery. If anyone still doubts Haiti’s loss of sovereignty, the fact that our country no longer makes its own beer ought to confirm it. We have some serious fixing to do.
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