Activism & advocacy
CONTINENTAL CONGRESS TO CONVENE IN TENNESSEE
Submitted by brothermartin on Mon, 05/12/2008 - 6:08pm.The North American Bioregional Congress is coming to Tennessee in 2009. Its three hundred or so participants will arrive at The Farm, in Summertown, next September. They will spend a week in intensive interaction, and then journey back to their respective bioregions, inspired through communion at the Congress to ever more deeply reinhabit their home watersheds and bring their friends and neighbors back–or is it forward?–to Earth as well.
Technorati Tags: Bruce Perens for OSI board
Submitted by Cameron on Fri, 03/21/2008 - 8:38pm.Bruce Perens is running for the board of the Open Source Initiative. OSI is one of the principal guardians of software and information freedom. Its board is tilted towards companies that profit from open source products they control. Bruce will balance that tilt by representing us. He did a damn good job as leader of the Debian organization.
Petition: Call on PAX WORLD Mutual Funds to Divest War Contractor!
Submitted by ericbright on Thu, 03/20/2008 - 9:52pm.Would you expect a war contractor to be one of the investments in a socially responsible mutual fund, such as Pax World (their name literally means “peace”) and Winslow Green Solutions mutual funds?
alternatives to Yahoo Mail
Submitted by Cameron on Mon, 03/10/2008 - 7:07pm.Yahoo Mail has been refusing messages from the commercial server which hosts twenty GP-US mailing lists. Nobody knows why. It's disrupting GP-US business. Yahoo Mail users who try to ask Yahoo what's up discover there is no customer support for a "free" commercial email account. Well, duh. The GP-US forum managers asked me to suggest some alternatives.
slightly magical computer seeks home
Submitted by Cameron on Fri, 03/07/2008 - 5:17pm.Last summer I retired the computer "petra-k" which had been serving greens.org and about a hundred other domains. If computers collect positive karma, this one has a lot. It even got reincarnated.
cramming the 'spoiler' rap onto a bumper sticker
Submitted by Cameron on Fri, 02/29/2008 - 12:29pm.Every newspaper article about Ralph Nader since 2000 mentions the imaginary Spoiler Effect, at least in passing. "Everybody knows" Nader caused the Bush administration. Of course it's a lie, but the argument is hard to make simple. I'm trying to squish it down to bumper sticker size. Here's a comment for the SF Chronic.
Green politics, Copyright Microsoft Corporation
Submitted by Cameron on Fri, 02/15/2008 - 5:15pm.Microsoft Corporation is trying to buy Yahoo Incorporated. If it succeeds, it will own email service to about half of North American progressive activists. Due to progressives' inexplicable preference for Yahoo Groups, it will own most electronic forums for and about progressive organizing.
Stylish helplessness, "I can't get on the list!"
Submitted by Cameron on Mon, 02/11/2008 - 1:55pm.Someone reported on GDI-FreeSpeech that some Green's web form "didn't work."
It doesn't help Steve (or his web engineer) to say "it didn't work." It doesn't help you. It doesn't help the spectators who might benefit from your exchange with Steve. Nobody knows what you tried, or what you expected, or what happened instead.
About "free speech" in a limited medium
Submitted by Cameron on Thu, 01/24/2008 - 2:53pm.Most Greens are fairly new to email. Not only did they miss the orientation, but they've never known a mailbox without spam. Hardly any of us have used Usenet News. Over half of us use corporate "free" email which is provided to deliver advertisements and collect consumer information for data mining, and have never known professional email, but don't realize how bad the service we've chosen is.
Ecology and Green Politics, Part II
Submitted by wrolley on Mon, 01/21/2008 - 11:55pm.In my previous post, Part I, I explained how I came to the conlusion that "deep ecology" should inform Green Politics. This was posted here and also on a the GPUS_FreeSpeech email list. Howie Hawkins responded to a question about "social ecology" and I obtained his permission to post that repsonse here, because it leads me into a new consideration.
Hawkins wrote:
Tribal Rights Not Just about Gaming
Submitted by wrolley on Thu, 01/17/2008 - 12:16pm.If you listen to main stream media, you would think that the only issue regarding the rights of Indian tribes have to do with Gaming. In California, where I live, there are four initiative measure on the ballot February 5 that would expand gaming for four tribes. The number of television ads that you see about these initiative measues far exeeds the number of ads you see for all presidential candidates combined.
OVC secure paper ballots demo'ed in SLO
Submitted by Cameron on Mon, 01/14/2008 - 2:38pm.OVC demonstrated a new version of its paper ballots-of-record voting system in San Luis Obispo yesterday.
Local newspaper story: http://www.sanluisobispo.com/news/local/story/244784.html
OVC email announcement:
http://www.openvotingconsortium.org/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/archive/ovcann...
evangelically rude!
Submitted by Cameron on Sun, 01/13/2008 - 12:16pm.A pointless and destructive battle rages between a handful of narcissistic screamers and the people trying to keep the GP-US mailing lists usable.
The screamers insist that they cannot communicate in a professional tone, and any request to do so is an attempt to "censor" them. Meanwhile, they bully and intimidate normal people from speaking their minds.
green change
Submitted by greenchange on Sat, 12/15/2007 - 8:38pm.Hi everyone. Take a look at http://www.greenchange.org. Green Change is a community of people with Green values: justice, democracy, sustainability and non-violence. We work together to share Green art, politics and culture. In early 08, we will launch an online community network.
