Archive for the ‘Activism’ Category
Monday, December 4th, 2006
On November 3, Malachi Ritscher set himself on fire near a Chicago expressway in protest of the Iraq war. Police couldn't definitively identify him for days. A friend later got a package in the mail with an explanation, a will, and a key to Ritscher's apartment.
The story hit the AP ...
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Tuesday, November 7th, 2006
I doubt it can stop it cold, but it could have some effect.
Google for "virginia vote suppression" and you get a fistful of good evidence of bad behavior. My favorite is this answering machine message telling a voter they will be criminally prosecuted for trying to vote in VA because ...
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Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006
Yesterday, the American Consumer Institute inaccurately assailed network neutrality proponents for pretending to represent the voice of consumers while actually representing the voices of very large and powerful companies. The report's author, who is no neutral observer, uses decontextualized economic data to obscure the political reality on the ground.
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Tuesday, April 4th, 2006
General Motors has invited the general public to create their own ads for the new Chevy Tahoe. They've provided a decent amount of footage of the new SUV and some sound beds and told folks to go crazy.
Thousands of environmentalists and other SUV critics have gone Adbusters and created viral ...
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Thursday, March 23rd, 2006
Every once in a while, some legislator tries to argue that games are not protected speech because they have no narrative or message. To them, I offer Patriot Act: The Home Version, a parody of Monopoly. The Philly Inquirer reports:
Designed by a New Jersey graphic artist and Arab civil-rights advocate, ...
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Wednesday, March 1st, 2006
In today's Philadelphia Weekly, on page 18, there's a picture of me holding a flyer that says "Are you buying a dangerous CD?"
The story, Copy Cats, is another great media clipping covering the antics of FreeCulture.org.
Saturday, we were protesting outside Tower Records on South St.
We believe that the major ...
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