Jul
31
Israeli Cosmetic Company Is About to Learn It Can’t Cover Up Its Role in the Occupation
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[From AlterNet] By Nancy Kricorian Ahava is an Israeli profiteer exploiting the natural resources of occupied Palestine to sell its exotic beauty products. CodePink protests AHAVA in Tel Aviv As the dust settled on the destroyed homes, schools and lives in the aftermath of Israel’s assault on Gaza earlier this year, mainstream human rights groups [...]
Jul
31
Signing election petitions goes high-tech
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[From The Columbus Dispatch] May 26, 2008 BY ALAN JOHNSON Photo: SHARI LEWISDISPATCH A signature made with this electronic pen can be verified against voter rolls. Technology finally has caught up with the decades-old pen-and-paper process used to gather signatures of registered voters to place issues on the ballot. A new high-tech system is being [...]
Jul
30
Beerplomancy
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Jul
24
(Feed will be live during meeting events, recorded other times.) At the Green Party NY web site.
Jul
14
Nintendo gives girls “life lessons” on how to achieve their social beauty standards
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Really, Nintendo? Check out Wired’s take on new games for girls released in 2009, in which all but one (“The Daring Game for Girls”) is about fashion, boys, princesses, modeling, and more fashion. Well, there is a detective game, but you solve mysteries using your “feminine sixth sense,” so I wouldn’t necessarily put that in [...]





