GSA turns to industry to study Web users
fcw.com ,
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GSA said it intends to buy the results of research conducted by a company that reviews Web users’ Internet activities. GSA plans to compare and perhaps benchmark the company’s results against what the agency already understands about who visits USA.gov, the RFP states.
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Screening of Film, "Zeitgeist" 9/9/07
Al uh looyah,
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Sunday, September 9, 2007, 6:30 PM 2007
Joyce Beers Center 1220 Cleveland Ave,
Zeitgeist is a film that explores the myths that presently perpetrate in our society. It is split into three parts, telling three different stories. Part one is about religion, part two is about 9/11 and false flag terrorism, and part three is about the bankers and financial system that run this country.
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Brandon Tate: Queer Youth Activist & Katrina
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,
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Two years ago, BRANDON SHAWN TATE was living in Baton Rouge, managing a restaurant and attending Louisiana State University on a full scholarship. Then Hurricane Katrina hit. Now he’s head of the local Stonewall Young Democrats and a powerful organizer of Queer youth. In this interview,he discusses his Katrina experience, his optimistic view of the political future as his generation becomes more and more of the electorate, and compares the levels of acceptance he received in Louisiana and California (and that's not always what you'd think!).
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Firefighters, Free Speech and Pride
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,
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This editorial, which appears in the September 2007 edition of Zenger's Newsmagazine, discusses the situation of the four firefighters who are suing the city of San Diego for sexual harassment and violation of their First Amendment rights because they were forced, on pain of loss of promotion opportunities and other adverse job actions, to drive a fire engine in the recent Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Pride Parade. Though the case is being exploited by local homophobes and the Thomas More Law Center, a "Christian" nonprofit corporation based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, the firefighters happen to have right and justice on their side.
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Dean Calbreath, U-T Reporter, Got Cunningham
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,
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Dean Calbreath, one of a team of four reporters from the San Diego Union-Tribune who broke the story of former Congressmember Randy "Duke" Cunningham and his bribe-taking that has now landed in jail, spoke August 25 at the First Unitarian-Universalist Church in Hillcrest. Most of his talk consisted of responses to audience questions, which ranged from the Cunningham case and the future of newspapers in general and investigative reporting in particular to issues like the problems with electronic voting — something Calbreath has never reported on.
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Labor Leader Speaks to Queer Democrats
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,
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The August 23 meeting of the predominantly Queer San Diego Democratic Club was billed as a forum on Queers and labor, but it turned into something considerably more controversial. San Diego-Imperial Counties Labor Council head Jerry Butkiewicz and his political director, Lorena Gonzalez, spoke fervently about the Gaylord development proposal in Chula Vista and the complaints of four firefighters forced to march against their will in the Pride Parade. The endorsement of Congressmember Susan Davis for re-election squeaked through with just two votes to spare after it was debated by club members upset with her vote for the latest supplemental appropriation for the war in Iraq. City attorney Mike Aguirre spoke — and, long after he left, so did a club member who used to work for him and is now fiercely critical.
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Taking Back Our City: One Corp. at a Time
Dustin D. Delon,
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Sempra Corporation has a proven track record as corporate thieves, price manipulators and endagering public safety. It is time San Diego took back its energy policies and priorities; working toward 100 percent energy independence through renewable sources.
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oaxaca comic book
ana,
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graphic interpretation of the events in oaxaca from an antiauthoritarian perspective. Print it out and share it with your friends or use it for your solidarity group!
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LIVELY, LOUD & LIBERATING: Challenging Hate
Janice Jordan,
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On Saturday the 25th of August 2007, activist communities from San Diego challenged the presence of Pete Wilson, a man of hate and a symbol of racism in downtown San Diego. Border Angels and Raza Rights, two of the organizing bodies for the demonstration of the installation of facism kept the crowd of 200-300 noisy and energized.
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Demo to Save Kenneth Foster August 27
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,
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On Monday, August 27, at 5 p.m. on Broadway in front of Horton Plaza between Third and Fourth Streets downtown, there will be a demonstration to save Texas death-row inmate Kenneth Foster from being executed on August 30 and win him a new trial. This article details the Foster case and exposes the major miscarriages of justice that led to Foster's conviction and death sentence for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. It also quotes from Foster himself and mentions his organization D.R.I.V.E. (Death Row Inter-communalist Vanguard Engagement), a group of death row prisoners campaigning both for improved conditions and for an end to capital punishment itself. For more information, please see Foster's Web site at www.freekenneth.com
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Wikipedia and the art of censorship
repost from independent (uk),
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It was hailed as a breakthrough in the democratisation of knowledge. But the online encyclopedia has since been hijacked by forces who decided that certain things were best left unknown.
The secret of Wikipedia's phenomenal success is that anyone can edit the millions of comments, facts and statistics published on the pages of the world's most popular online encyclopaedia. But that of course is also its greatest weakness.
The chance to rewrite history in flattering and uncritical terms has proved too much of a temptation for scores of multinational companies, political parties and well-known organisations across the world.
If a misdemeanour from a politician's colourful past becomes an inconvenient fact at election time then why not just strike it from the Wikipedia record? Or if a public company is embarking on a sensitive takeover why should its investors know of the target business's human rights abuses?
Now a website designed to monitor editorial changes made on Wikipedia has found thousands of self-serving edits and traced them to their original source. It has turned out to be hugely embarrassing for armies of political spin doctors and corproate revisionists who believed their censorial interventions had gone unnoticed.
Some of the guilty parties identified by the website, such as the Labour Party, the CIA, Republican Party and the Church of Scientology, are well-known for their obsession with PR. But others, such as the Anglican and Catholic churches or even the obscurely titled Perro de Presa Canario Dog Breeders Association of America, are new to the dark arts of spin.
The website, Wikiscanner, was designed by Virgil Griffith, a graduate student from the California Institute of Technology, who downloaded the entire encyclopaedia, isolating the internet-based records of anonymous changes and IP addresses.
He matched those IP addresses with public net-address services and helped uncover the world's biggest spinning operation.
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Censored at a large website
Mark,
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The following exchange between me (MARK), a former elections official (KURT), and an advocate of hand-counted paper ballot (HCPB) elections (KATHLEEN), was deleted by the administrator of a large website.
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Buffalo are being slaughtered so cattle industry can live
Four San Diego firefighters who operate
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