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[P2P Foundation] P2P Foundation » Blog Archive » Book of the Week: Cyberchiefs (2 ...: The schematic representation of the space suggests that online authority regimes do not exist in a perfectly pure state, but rather in various forms of combinatory amalgamations. Since sovereign and charismatic authority tend to contradict one another, can we expect to find an especially high occurrence of conflicts in the top-left quadrant, where the overlap is the strongest?

[Natural Awakenings Magazine Charlotte » Articles] Women as Leaders | Natural Awakenings Magazine Charlotte: In an organization like Holistic Moms Network (HMN), founded by a handful of mothers who yearned for the support and friendship of others parenting outside the mainstream, gender balance might be unexpected. Yet, according to founder Nancy Massotto, the nonprofit’s 120 chapters across the United States and Canada counts many supportive fathers as members.

[The New Internationalist Blog - From the Archive] Struggling for autonomy (2) -- New Internationalist Blog: Likeother parts of the Delta region, Ogoniland is criss-crossed with hundreds ofmiles of pipelines carrying crude oil, many of which pass close to homes andfarmland. Dotted around the network of pipelines are gas flares which have beenburning for the past 40 years, spouting black dust and fumes day in day out.Because the pipes run along the surface, and thanks to poor maintenance by theoil companies, there are constant spills and leakages, most of which have beenleft to destroy the local environment.

[Gender and Technology] Exploring the Gendered Web : Gender and Technology: At the Gender and Tech mini-conference, danah boyd referenced the early Internet scholars’ belief that the web would allow users to reject their everyday identity, including their real gender, in favor of a disembodied and free identity. In the 1990’s, Sherry Turkle and others pointed to the powerful impact of the Internet as a place to reconstruct gender and identity to suit one’s fancy, not reality.

[CRN.Info and Analysis] CRN.Info and Analysis » Blog Archive » how to lose friends and ...: It is fairly clear that what Young was probably trying to accomplish was to shake up the reader’s image of God, addressing the unfortunate issue that we have often created Him in our image, particularly in Western culture.  Unfortunately, Young’s attempt falls flat in that he trades in one humanly recognizable (and ill-conceived) image for another.  (Put another way, while it is true that God is not Wilford Brimley, He’s not Aunt Jemima, either.)

[SolidarityEconomy.net] SolidarityEconomy.net » Blog Archive » 21st Century Socialism ...: Socialism will be anchored in public and worker ownership of the main productive forces and natural resources. This can be achieved by various means: a) buying out major failing corporations at penny stock status, then leasing them back to the unions and having the workers in each firm—one worker, one vote—run them, b) workers directly taking ownership and control over failed and abandoned factories, c) eminent domain seizures of resources and factories, with compensation, otherwise required for the public good, and d) public funding for startups of worker-owned cooperative businesses.

[Vital Voices Blog] Vital Voices Blog » As I Walk to Prison - Letter from Mu Sochua ...: I became a leader in the women’s movement, moving communities and walking the peace walk in city streets and dirt roads to pray for non-violence. I joined politics and became the first woman to lead the women’s ministry that was lead by a man, campaigned nationwide to put an end to human trafficking, authored the draft law on domestic violence, signed treaties with neighboring countries to protect our women and children from being prosecuted as illegal migrants but to receive proper treatment as victims of sex slavery.

[ReliefWeb - OCHA Situation Reports] ReliefWeb » Document » Eastern Africa Zone: Appeal No. MAA64001 ...: The Zone also works with other organizations including the East Africa Roll Back Malaria Network (EARN), the Regional Health Emergency Group (RHEG), the Water and Environmental Sanitation Coordination (WESCORD), inter-agency working group (IAWG) on HIV and Sexually Gender-based Violence (SGBV) in emergencies as well as National Society partnerships with people living with HIV and/or AIDS (PLHIV) associations. The DM department also co-chairs the IAWG on Humanitarian Aid and works closely with the Regional Food and Nutrition Working Group (RFSNWG) and UN ISDR.

[Cafferty File] Cafferty File: Tell Jack how you really feel Blog Archive - How ...: The Republican party, if it wishes to gain the confidence of the average American has to move aways from the Neo Con, right wing fringe of the party and move to the Center…The only ones left in the GOP will be (1) The Uber Wealthy who are worried about nothing more than their tax rate (2) The Social Conservatives who worry about nothing but Abortion and Gay Marriage (3) Racists/Xenophobes… They marginalized themselves, fell out of favor and now there is hope that we can repair the damge done over twenty-thirty years of GOP influence/dominance

[Obama Today | Following Barack Obama] Obama Today | Following Barack Obama » Blog Archive » Who do you ...: Hello everyone,let’s face reality…the U.S.A is the world’s leader and she needs a presentable man to carry the mantle of leadership.This does not apply only to physical attributes but also to attributes that place integrity and character at the fore.Today,I read through the policies of the presidential candidates without any bias and discovered that only one of them is genuinely interested in the American people.Pls people of the world let us aschew pity and emotions and do the right thing.Vote for a virile,strong,diplomatic,understanding,loving,and worthy leader to chart the cause of the American people in the right direction.Who does all these qualities remind you of?…simple answer-Barack Obama.Truely,I can’t believe the American people would even think of Mc Cain…yes he WAS a great soldier,yes he FOUGHT for the Americans but notice the highlighted verbs,they are all in the past tense.Mc Cain has served his time please let him join the CHANGE wagon sincerely as he is claiming right now by electing Barack Obama the next president of the U.S.A.So this is a clarion call on McCain and all the republicans to join the democrats in the change wagon and elect our next prsident,His excellency,President Barack Obama of the United States of America.May God bless America.

[politicalbetting.com] politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Tories move up 5 with ComRes: I readily admit that I have no detailed knowledge of how the seats are distributed geographically - although I do remember at Margaret Thatcher’s final hour when, drawing a line from the Wash to the Bristol Channel, south of which Labour won only 4 seats outside London. Taking into account significant potential losses in both Scotland and Wales, is it not possible that Labour could sink to around the 150 level?

[afh blog] afh blog - artforhumans.com » THESIS PROOFS, FINISH + CODA: This neutering of real life was epitomized by the enthusiastic reaction of Japanese children of Murakami’s generation to the animated versions of atomic explosions and fire-bombings they watched on TV. One reason these kids cheered the demolition of Tokyo is that it was accomplished by a wizard: the most influential special-effects designer of the day, Eiji Tsuburaya, who learned his craft as a propagandist during World War II, preparing a rousing and convincing recreation of the (unfilmed) Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

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