rebekahheacock + politics 72
The long march speeds up
january 2012 by rebekahheacock
Africa in 2012: "Expect turbulence."
africa
politics
january 2012 by rebekahheacock
[Taking Stock] 2011 in Protests So Far (by @oso)
july 2011 by rebekahheacock
To refer to the worldwide protests of 2011 as the Arab Spring is to mark a serious misnomer.
activism
politics
digitalactivism
socialmedia
july 2011 by rebekahheacock
Kizza Besigye shot at second #walk2work protest
april 2011 by rebekahheacock
Things are heating up in Uganda.
uganda
politics
april 2011 by rebekahheacock
Cameroon bans mobile Twitter service | FP Passport
march 2011 by rebekahheacock
"Before today’s ban, very few Cameroonians were even aware that Twitter was available in Cameroon via SMS, and the majority of those who were did not even grasp its potential as a tool for political activism."
twitter
cameroon
africa
politics
march 2011 by rebekahheacock
African Revolution, Holding on Line Two | PolicyMic
march 2011 by rebekahheacock
Interesting take by an old friend of mine.
africa
politics
digitalactivism
march 2011 by rebekahheacock
"Senator: domain name seizures 'alarmingly unprecedented'"
february 2011 by rebekahheacock
(i.e., "what the hell are you guys doing over there?")
copyright
internet
politics
february 2011 by rebekahheacock
Twitter in Paraguay: The president's alleged tweets | The Economist
july 2010 by rebekahheacock
The president of Paraguay may or may not be tweeting snarkily about his colleagues. Global Voices' Belen Bogado writes about it for the Economist.
twitter
paraguay
politics
july 2010 by rebekahheacock
Slashdot | Copyright As Weapon In US Senate Campaign
july 2010 by rebekahheacock
Republican candidate in AZ uses cease-and-desist letter to prevent opponent from posting material from her old, über-conservative campaign site. Oh, Angle. Haven't you ever heard of the Streisand effect?
USpolitics
politics
copyright
july 2010 by rebekahheacock
Clarifying SourceForge.net’s denial of site access for certain persons in accordance with US law
february 2010 by rebekahheacock
Users residing in countries on the United States Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanction list, including Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria, may not post content to, or access content available through, SourceForge.net. Last week, SourceForge.net began automatic blocking of certain IP addresses to enforce those conditions of use.
law
opensource
politics
activism
USforeignpolicy
february 2010 by rebekahheacock
Op-Chart - Picturing the Past 10 Years - Graphic - NYTimes.com
december 2009 by rebekahheacock
How "surge," ironic mustaches and Abu Ghraib fit into the past decade.
history
visualization
design
culture
nytimes
politics
news
art
december 2009 by rebekahheacock
Dear President Bush (Andrew Sullivan, on torture)
september 2009 by rebekahheacock
"Demand, as Reagan did, a full accounting and report from an independent body. Explain your evolving views. Defend your honor and your family’s long record of public service. Blame no one else."
politics
war
iraq
humanrights
history
september 2009 by rebekahheacock
‘No news is good news’ - not true in Zimbabwe» This is Zimbabwe
july 2009 by rebekahheacock
"One thing is for sure, to assume that 'no news is good news' in Zimbabwe is catastrophically short-sighted."
zimbabwe
politics
africa
news
july 2009 by rebekahheacock
Getting Museveni to Twitter « Ugandan Insomniac
july 2009 by rebekahheacock
"@rmugabe–Karibu! Twitter is the new revolution! Mbasongo & Biya are already on. Convince Mubarak, Compaoré & other comrades 2 join. A luta continua!"
uganda
politics
museveni
twitter
socialmedia
july 2009 by rebekahheacock
…My heart’s in Accra » After Obama in Ghana
july 2009 by rebekahheacock
"While there’s no shortage of pride over the Obama visit, there’s a darker tone as well to many of these conversations. This is the third US presidential visit to Ghana, and while Obama is a rock star to an extent that George W. Bush never was, there’s a sense of inevitability to some of these visits."
ghana
obama
elections
politics
USforeignpolicy
july 2009 by rebekahheacock
…My heart’s in Accra » Activist media and selective amplifiers
july 2009 by rebekahheacock
"We face at least three filters in the voices we hear - access, language and bias."
iran
politics
activism
socialmedia
africa
twitter
china
media
digitalactivism
mobilephones
july 2009 by rebekahheacock
Palin Threatens to Sue Blogger for Publishing Rumors of Investigation, Ensures Rumors Will Get Wide Attention | Citizen Media Law Project
july 2009 by rebekahheacock
"The governor's massive overreaction -on the Fourth of July no less- should make any reasonable person wonder what's wrong with her. The Lady protests way too much. Eventually we'll all find out why she really walked off the job."
palin
politics
bloggers
freespeech
blogs
berkman
july 2009 by rebekahheacock
The Grill: Using computer models to predict war
july 2009 by rebekahheacock
"To my surprise, the model's output led to a prediction entirely different from my personal judgment. In any event, my personal opinion turned out to be wrong and the model's prediction turned out to be correct."
technology
statistics
politics
conflict
war
july 2009 by rebekahheacock
The Cost of Hashtag Revolution | The American Prospect
july 2009 by rebekahheacock
"It's now been more than two weeks since the election, and although the prospects of the Iranian protest movement remain uncertain, the future of the world's armchair revolutionaries looks bright."
twitter
politics
iran
socialmedia
digitalactivism
july 2009 by rebekahheacock
Publius Project
june 2009 by rebekahheacock
summer reading.
internet
technology
law
politics
society
education
media
berkman
june 2009 by rebekahheacock
Global Voices Online » Iran: SMS is blocked
june 2009 by rebekahheacock
"Several news site and blogs such as 3vomiband209 report [fa] that a few hours before Iranian presidential election SMS is blocked in country and several political blogs are not available."
iran
elections
politics
technology
mobilephones
june 2009 by rebekahheacock
Pirate Party wins surprise Euro seat, calls for Web freedom - CNN.com
june 2009 by rebekahheacock
"'Together we have changed the landscape of European politics,' Pirate Party leader Rick Falkvinge told file-sharing news Web site TorrentFreak after the win."
pirates
elections
politics
europe
sweden
copyright
intellectualproperty
june 2009 by rebekahheacock
Joe Powell:: Quote of the Day
may 2009 by rebekahheacock
"'[The] National Resistance Movement is modelled along the lines of the Communist Party of China.' Government spokesman Ofwono Opondo quoted by Angelo Izama. At least they're being honest about it I suppose..."
politics
uganda
may 2009 by rebekahheacock
Flickr: The Official White House Photostream
may 2009 by rebekahheacock
How did I not know this existed?
politics
media
photography
obama
flickr
whitehouse
may 2009 by rebekahheacock
wronging rights: Kenyan Women Boycott Sex, Shame Us for Being Lazy Bloggers
may 2009 by rebekahheacock
"Kenya's women are on strike. Sex strike, to be precise. The strike was called by a coalition of Kenyan women's organizations in the hopes that a week without sex might inspire the (male) members of Kenya's shaky coalition government to quit bickering amongst themselves and get down to some actual governing."
politics
kenya
women
may 2009 by rebekahheacock
Moldova's Twitter revolution is NOT a myth | Net Effect
april 2009 by rebekahheacock
"In my view, people who point to the low number of Twitter users in Moldova as proof of the mythical nature of the subject have conceptual difficulties understanding how networks work."
politics
socialnetworking
twitter
moldova
april 2009 by rebekahheacock
In Recession and War, St. Patrick’s Parade Marches On - City Room Blog - NYTimes.com
march 2009 by rebekahheacock
St. Patrick's day paraders can't express gay pride while marching -- WTF, NY?
nytimes
nyc
lgbt
politics
march 2009 by rebekahheacock
Holocaust Survivors & Grown-Up Green Leaf » Our Party
february 2009 by rebekahheacock
Not sure how I feel about this.
israel
holocaust
politics
elections
february 2009 by rebekahheacock
Amb. Peter Bridges: We Know the World and We Support Obama
october 2008 by rebekahheacock
"More American ambassadors have died violent deaths since World War II than our admirals and generals combined."
elections
obama
usforeignpolicy
politics
october 2008 by rebekahheacock
Aaron Sorkin Conjures a Meeting of Obama and Bartlet - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com
september 2008 by rebekahheacock
Oh my god, do I ever miss Aaron Sorkin.
politics
obama
nytimes
westwing
elections
september 2008 by rebekahheacock
Simbabwe: The leading Zimbabwe simulation for Mac OSX
march 2008 by rebekahheacock
This is insane: "Welcome to Simbabwe, where the property is already owned and the houses built and you compete to burn and dispossess them. Bounce around the map plundering farms, denying grain silos to opposition supporters and robbing the community ches
apple
politics
mac
zimbabwe
game
march 2008 by rebekahheacock
Clinton stumbles over new Russian leader's name | U.S. | Reuters
february 2008 by rebekahheacock
"A state official must at least have brains," he snapped at a press conference earlier this month when asked about Clinton's comment that former KGB officers do not have souls.
russia
politics
putin
clinton
obama
blinyoffensive
february 2008 by rebekahheacock
Economist: A-twitter: A hip version of cablese jazzes up campaign coverage
february 2008 by rebekahheacock
",,,the medium is hard to dismiss as a reporters' tool, particularly in countries where cell-phone networks reach farther than the internet. At 4:53 am local time on January 18th Juliana Rotich, a blogger in Kenya, tweeted in her own cablese, “in town n
economist
twitter
elections
politics
citizenjournalism
citizenmedia
socialmedia
africa
blogs
bloggers
civicmedia
kenya
journalism
mobilephones
february 2008 by rebekahheacock
Vote From Abroad
january 2008 by rebekahheacock
Democrats living abroad may vote in their party’s 2008 Global Presidential Primary.
elections
voting
politics
expat
democrats
january 2008 by rebekahheacock
NYT: 'Democracy by Other Means' by Aidan Hartley
january 2008 by rebekahheacock
op-ed on Kenya by the author of The Zanzibar Chest
author
aidanhartley
elections
kenya
media
nytimes
politics
january 2008 by rebekahheacock
TNR -- 'Angry White Man: The bigoted past of Ron Paul' by James Kirchick
january 2008 by rebekahheacock
dirt from Ron Paul's old newsletters, researched at the KU libraries
politics
ronpaul
news
elections
TNR
universityofkansas
KU
january 2008 by rebekahheacock
related tags
activism ⊕ africa ⊕ agriculture ⊕ aidanhartley ⊕ apple ⊕ art ⊕ author ⊕ berkman ⊕ blinyoffensive ⊕ bloggers ⊕ blogs ⊕ cameroon ⊕ china ⊕ citizenjournalism ⊕ citizenmedia ⊕ civicmedia ⊕ clinton ⊕ coffee ⊕ comics ⊕ conflict ⊕ copyright ⊕ corruption ⊕ culture ⊕ darfur ⊕ davidremnick ⊕ democrats ⊕ design ⊕ development ⊕ digitalactivism ⊕ DRC ⊕ economics ⊕ economist ⊕ education ⊕ elections ⊕ ethiopia ⊕ ethnicity ⊕ europe ⊕ expat ⊕ facebook ⊕ flickr ⊕ food ⊕ freespeech ⊕ FSU ⊕ fukuyama ⊕ game ⊕ gender ⊕ ghana ⊕ global ⊕ globalvoices ⊕ google ⊕ googlemaps ⊕ grammar ⊕ guatemala ⊕ guineabissau ⊕ history ⊕ holocaust ⊕ humanrights ⊕ humor ⊕ ICC ⊕ ict4d ⊕ inspiration ⊕ intellectualproperty ⊕ internet ⊕ internetfreedom ⊕ iran ⊕ iraq ⊕ israel ⊕ journalism ⊕ kansas ⊕ kasparov ⊕ kenya ⊕ KU ⊕ language ⊕ law ⊕ lgbt ⊕ mac ⊕ madagascar ⊕ maps ⊕ mashup ⊕ mccain ⊕ media ⊕ mobilephones ⊕ moldova ⊕ museveni ⊕ news ⊕ newyorker ⊕ nigeria ⊕ northernuganda ⊕ nyc ⊕ nytimes ⊕ obama ⊕ oil ⊕ opensource ⊕ palin ⊕ paraguay ⊕ photography ⊕ pirates ⊕ politics ⊖ privacy ⊕ putin ⊕ ronpaul ⊕ russia ⊕ sarahpalin ⊕ sebelius ⊕ slate ⊕ socialmedia ⊕ socialnetworking ⊕ society ⊕ sociology ⊕ somalia ⊕ statistics ⊕ sudan ⊕ sweden ⊕ technology ⊕ tnr ⊕ twitter ⊕ uganda ⊕ unitedstates ⊕ universityofkansas ⊕ usforeignpolicy ⊕ USpolitics ⊕ visualization ⊕ voting ⊕ war ⊕ westwing ⊕ whitehouse ⊕ women ⊕ xkcd ⊕ zimbabwe ⊕Copy this bookmark: