Open Democracy- Police confiscation powers to be given to councils, quangos and others, Zach Woodham At the Labour party conference the Unlock Democracy stall displayed a selection of badges. I still haven’t pinned on the one that said ‘I want Local Power!’, because every time I think of doing so, I ask myself a rather pertinent question – do I really trust my local authority with more power? The great Edmund Burke said, “the greater the power, the more dan […]
- Police confiscation powers to be given to councils, quangos and others, Zach Woodham
- Indymedia Scotland
- St Andrews: Students Blockade G20ST ANDREWS G20: 5/11/09: Five students created a human blockade on the road to the Fairmont Hotel in an attempt to disrupt the G20 finance ministers as they arrived at their St Andrews hotel location for a two-day summit. [ Protest March | Press release ] read more
- St Andrews: Students Blockade G20
- SmartMobs
- Howard Rheingold in New York City this weekConference convener and New School faculty Trebor Scholz wrote me today saying that “One of the highlights of this conference will definitely be Howard Rheingold’s session.” That session will be on Saturday morning. Howard will also be one of the panelists in the Closing Plenary Discussion at the end of that day. The full program [...]
- Howard Rheingold in New York City this week
- Pulse Media
- What does justice look like in Cambodia?I was in Cambodia in 2006 working with a small, grass-roots, non-profit organization dedicated to street children. One day while heading to a village located on the outskirts of Phnom Penh (Cambodia’s capital), I passed by the massive reconstruction site of what was to become the UN backed Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC). [...]
- What does justice look like in Cambodia?
