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Aug.05.2009
By Noah NelsonAugust 5, 2009 at 12:26pmRead More: Citizen Journalism, Euna Lee, Greece, Journalism, North Korea. Laura Ling,Police Shootings, Risks, Risky Behavior
When Laura Ling and Euna Lee were sentenced to 12 years of hard labor in a North Korean prison camp we asked Josh Wolf- who holds the...
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Jul.31.2009
Red Room member Nordette Adams is a writer who wears a number of stylish literary hats. Whether as a journalist, poet, spoken word artist, fiction writer, literary critic, or mistress of the blog, they all tend to fit with a touch of classic flare.
It was my good fortune to meet Ms. Adams via the...
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Jul.02.2009
I was very much relieved recently when both Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and actor Johnny Depp admitted to hearing something go "Twitter-Twitter Tweet-Tweet," like some Vulcan canary singing for its supper out in the depths of cyberspace, but didn't have the faintest idea what it...
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Apr.29.2009
"There is nothing new in the world except the history we do not know," said former President Harry S. Truman. Those words resonated with powerful significance April 3, 2009, when Mrs. Naomi King and Dr. Babs Onabanjo debuted in Savannah a preview of the film, A.D. King, Brother to the...
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Apr.08.2009
Marilyn Kallet gives great advice. On her recommendation, I sent a poem to Public Republic, and Katerina Klemer graciously put it up here: http://www.public-republic.net/closing-mother-down.php
Visit Katerina at http://www.katerinaklemer.com/
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Jan.08.2009
There is that old adage that "history is written by the victors." And that has indeed been true for much of human history. Yet something has shifted with the technology that now global communication systems.
No longer can a government dictate what gets reported. No longer can a newspaper...
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Jul.23.2008
Sometimes, even powerful bureaucracies are brought low by the diligence of individual citizens.
That's exactly what happened on Friday.
In this case, Muni makes a promise to public transit riders that it can't/won't keep.
We'd never know about that if it weren't for rider Aaron Kitashima, who...
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