At 5:00pm today Revolutionary War Reenactors will meet Occupy Wall Street Protestors who are marching from NYC to Washington DC and escort them through Trenton, New Jersey’s capital. The Occupiers will follow Route 206 out of Princeton.
Colored Troop Reenactors Escort Occupy Through Trenton
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Tagged 1st Rhode Island, 6th US CT, Ari Wei, Occupy March, reenactors
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Who Has Your Back on The Web?
Internet privacy is a matter of online civil liberty.
Friends, we have an ongoing need to educate ourselves about what privacy means in the Internet environment and take action to protect it. The Internet “space” we live in today is a pioneering world where people’s rights haven’t yet been fully determined. The EFF is one of the organizations the general public knows little, or nothing, about which is working behind the scenes every day at no charge to us to protect the privacy of all netizens. Other organizations are the ACLU and Public Citizen.
Posted in All, Digital Life, Gov't & Trade, Privacy & You
Tagged civil liberties, digital world, EFF, Internet provider, privacy
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Small Business Resources
Government and Affiliated Resources
- SBA
Small Business Administration Website
A federal resource for small business information on financing and technical assistance, a guarantor of loans for small businesses and an agency which certifies certain special small business designations which assist companies holding them with government contract procurement.
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Tagged financial assistance, loans, small business, technical assistance
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People of Color and Occupy Wall Street
Articles and comments on the People of Color Organize website share excellent perspectives on the issue of liberals disenfranchising non-whites from the progressive movement. At the New Jersey Environmental Justice Alliance meeting in Newark yesterday I was discussing this very same phenomenon.
Posted in All, Change the World, Find the Truth, Gov't & Trade
Tagged occupy wall street, people of color
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Columbus Day Not for Celebrating
I find it curious that a couple of Chinese language and culture schools with a large population of K-12 students with parents from Taiwan, plan to march in a Columbus Day Parade. Those who grew up in a community dominated by ongoing dialogue about social justice and the inaccuracies of history taught in school about the development of North American society, look upon Columbus Day as a day of mourning, and not celebration. The “settling” by Europeans of this region began the end for American people who had lived and loved this land for a long time before supposedly civilized people arrived to slaughter them by means both subtle and direct and to plunder the once abundant land and resources the indigenous people had been sustained by, and had protected, for as long as their people could remember.
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Lessig of FixCongressFirst.org to Speak at Ramapo College
Lawrence Lessig will speak to the community and students about the importance of taking private money out of public elections at Ramapo College on October 17. Lessig is also sponsoring a conference on the prospect of holding a conference about a constitutional convention this weekend. In a few minutes, the boys and I will be heading up there to join the dialogue.
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Tagged big money, fix congress first, private money, public elections
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Lessig’s Conference About a Constitutional Convention 9/23-25 in Boston
My family is going to be a roving video interview team at Lawrence Lessig’s Conversation About A Constitutional Convention in Boston September 23-25 2011, and we’d love to see our friends there as well. It turns out that the people’s will can actually trump congressional law – given that enough states and individuals come together and vote their will at a constitutional convention. Who would have thought?
Posted in All, Change the World, Gov't & Trade, Wei Family
Tagged #rootstrikers, constitutional convention, Lessig, societal change
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Use It or Lose It: The Right to Observe
Veryshortlist.com, a reviewer of the short Stand Your Ground filmed in London, expresses concern over, “the privatization of our public spaces,” which is a growing issue in the United States as well – even if it doesn’t trouble citizens even half as much as it ought to. Meeting up with each other in semi-public spaces with “free wifi” such as Starbucks, restaurants and shopping malls provides us with the illusion that we’re free to meet when and where we want but in reality, this is far from true. At one NY Starbucks I was recently told, “If you want to use the occupy a space at the counter, you’re going to need to consume something,” (as if I wasn’t already consuming – oxygen, for starters), but the barista meant, “You need to buy something we sell.”
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Tagged freedom, London, photographers, privatize public space, right, short film, Warren Buffet
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Obama deserves our trust and praise. He needs our push, too.
It’s great when someone you admire sees merit in you too. Today, I needed an injection of inspiration for finishing up the talk I’m giving next week on @jeffpulver‘s first #140Conf event on a tour bus, and got it when Reda StCyr “fanned” me on Huffington Post. StCyr is the woman who introduced me to the #p2 hashtag and through it provided me with a ready-made mechanism for interfacing on the web with the progressive community. Following links from Huffington’s fan notification took me to an important article about the poverty tour Dr. Cornel West & Tavis Smiley undertook this summer. In it, Smiley says that when the American public pressures Washington to take action on any issue, action gets taken. He gives some examples to prove his case and suggests that we be a lot more vocal about the poor needing help.
Obama’s Positive Accomplishments
I’m an openly enthusiastic fan of Obama. If you’re one of those people thinking that our president doesn’t deserve admiration, maybe an item from the list below will change your opinion. If you’re also an Obama fan, enjoy the read! (List will be updated as more entries are located.) Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Brinkley, Obama accomplishments
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