Vee Artemis, writing in the climate change forum, reminded me of a discussion about the nature of activism on Paul Kingsnorth's blog. She wrote:
"Whilst our '
In the openDemocracy forums, Courtney Hamilton started a small firestorm when he expressed strong doubts about the Kyoto Protocol, first discussed in this blog here. Hamilton wrote:
Environmentalists have put
Like to hazard a guess on which country has the highest representation of women in parliament?
Nope, it's not Sweden or Denmark (they come in second and third)
A bit of sarcasm from Greek blogger, Dystropoppygus, on Bush's recent trip to Europe spurred by Dominic Hilton's article about Fashionable anti-Americanism. I wonder what he
Last night to the Iran Heritage Foundation for their seminar Children of the Revolution. Participants included Christopher de Bellaigue and Ali Ansari. The event was chaired by openDemocracy contributor Rouzbeh
At home, in my own personal capacity, I followed the links in Caspar's post Killing in Sudan and ended up on a page where I could email my
There is something about the presentation of this new film, Gunner Palace, that disturbs me. It looks like a music video. In actuality, it's a documentary about US
Over at Democrats.com in America Bob Fertik has initiated a regular live conference call between upto 100 progressive bloggers and news journalists. They call it BlogCall and if you
Iran's government isn't very tolerant when it comes to freedom of expression. In the past couple of years Iranian bloggers have become some of strongest defenders
Last June, openDemocracy published an open letter to world leaders by Gareth Evans of the International Crisis Group, in which he called for the leaders of the G8 richest industrialised
Juan Cole has an interesting suggestion:
Wouldn't a flashmob protest in front of Iran's permanent mission to the UN be an appropriate blogger tool for this
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Reporters without Borders reported on the arrests earlier this month.
