- Must-read! RT @SPLC: Copyright boo-boo? The grizzly truth about ownership of students' photos. http://t.co/nEt2F61D #campusledger #
- .@KUEDITING named national journalism teacher of the year! I've been his student, GRA & colleague. There are none better. Hearty congrats! #
- Read more about Prof. Doug Ward (@KUEDITING) being named national journalism educator of the year here: http://t.co/LJJvZxO5 #
- Happy May Day! http://t.co/GspEDsgN It is important to know the meaning of days like today. #
- Today's #OfficeHoursPlaylist "…just a sprnkling for the May Queen…" of Led Zeppelin. #MayDay #
- Really sick of @hootsuite's inability to load timelines of all profiles I click. This forces me away from their site, towards twitterDOTcom #
- On the right, #occupyoakland #OO. On the left, #occupywallst #ows. The revolution will be live streamed. #MayDay http://t.co/pXdoy3T3 #
- Watchdog Asks FCC to Revoke News Corp. Licenses in U.S. http://t.co/vtV7InAO via @democracynow | Oh, what a day that would be. #
- "There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequals…" as seen here: http://t.co/KE5l9IHu + http://t.co/iyfCwH6Q #
- The apparent suicide of Junior Seau http://t.co/S5xlMpVl is illuminating. NFL players shoot themselves in the chest to preserve CTE… #
- Yes! Much more of this! RT @conversationage Take Harvard and MIT classes for free. edX is their new online course hub: http://t.co/xPK4lFsi #
- Love this! Excellent public art. MT @girljournalist: Dumpster Pinhole Cameras Capture a City's Hidden Side http://t.co/W7qpVU9l #
- RT @oxfordist: More negative national attention. #Kansas
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Why Occupy?
The failure of the mainstream media is particularly clear after viewing illustrative videos such as this. Though this clip showcases Occupy Portland, it makes the point for the entire #Occupy movement. For today’s “One Day On Earth” events, I’ll point you to this video. This is what democracy looks like.
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We must not buy federally-mandated insurance! No single-payer, no sale! No public option, no sale!
Any law that requires an individual to pay money to a private corporation or face criminal penalty is a bad law and must be struck down. I could write pages and pages about the healthcare issues with this bill…
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Question Copyright
That’s right, kiddies, copying is not theft! Time to forget the propaganda that you are fed every time you pop a dvd into the player. Oh, it is still a crime thanks to our draconian Digital Millennium Copyright Act, but it is not theft, so don’t feel like you are stealing, because you aren’t. Case in point: Nina Paley….
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The biggest story you’ve never heard
“Sibel Edmonds has a story to tell…It is about massive and systematic corruption of our elected officials and senior bureaucrats with the active connivance of the media. Worse, the corruption was carried out by agents of several foreign governments and involved nuclear secrets stolen from American defense laboratories and military bases that were, in some cases, sold to the highest bidder…”
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I am the Assistant Professor of Interactive Media at Johnson County Community College and an independent multimedia communications consultant. Politically, I defy labels. Philosophically, I believe that Ella Wheeler Wilcox was correct when she said, "To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men."
Fortuna Faveat (1993-2010)
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Mantra #1
We owe no allegiance to any government. They owe abject allegiance to us.
Mantra #2
Corporations are not human. Non-humans have no inalienable rights.
Mantra #3
Single-payer or bust!
Mantra #4
It is impossible to awaken someone who is pretending to sleep.