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• Contact Congress Today to #FreeTHOMAS May 17, 2012
  Quick call-to-action – today, Friday May 18th at 9:30 am 11am ET (changed, per Daniel Schuman’s photo – ed.), the Legislative Branch Subcommittee is holding a markup of a major appropriations bill. This is a crucial window of opportunity to compel the out-of-touch gatekeeepers at the Library of Congress and the members of Congress who oversee them to make pu […]
  David Moore
• Yochai Benkler: Blueprint for Democratic Participation May 10, 2012
  This video presentation, by Prof. Yochai Benkler of Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society, is one of the best articulations I’ve ever seen of the meaning of “participatory politics”. Please watch it in full & share it: Blueprint for Democratic Participation. (We’d embed it here for handiness, but alas, no such sharing enabled by the host si […]
  David Moore
• New NDAA Would Give the Military Clandestine Cyberwar Powers May 8, 2012
  Remember the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) and its language “affirming” the military’s power to indefinitely detain anyone, including U.S. citizens, without charge or trial? Well, the 2013 NDAA bill begins its journey through the legislative process tomorrow morning in the House Armed Services Committee; take a look at what power they’ll be […]
  Donny Shaw