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2012/07/16

Patrick Meier: Crowdsourcing for Human Rights Monitoring – Challenges and Opportunities for Information Collection & Verification

Crowdsourcing for Human Rights Monitoring: Challenges and Opportunities for Information Collection & Verification This new book, Human Rights and Information Communication Technologies: Trends and Consequences of Use, promises to be a valuable resource to both practitioners and academics interested in leveraging new information & communication technologies (ICTs) in the context of human rights work. I had …

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2012/03/02

Event: 16-18 / 19-21 April London Executive Leadership in Peacebuilding, International Development, Human Rights

Are you working in peacebuilding, international development or human rights? Would you like to improve the strategic impact, quality and effectiveness of your operations? Would you like to ensure effective monitoring and evaluation for your projects? World renowned expert Kai Brand Jacobsen will be in London this April to run two programmes for practitioners working in peacebuilding, international development, violence …

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2012/02/022012/02/02

John Steiner: Community Rights Movement / Democracy School Online

Learn how the rights protecting commerce and property, combined with the constitutional bestowal of the rights of personhood, have > given corporations a controlling interest over our nation, our democracy, our people and the very land we walk on. We are occupied! A new civil rights movement is on the rise and like movements in …

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2012/01/09

Review (Guest): Corporations Are Not People – Why They Have More Rights Than You Do and What You Can Do About It

Jeffrey D. Clements 5.0 out of 5 stars It’s Worse Than We Thought But More Easily Fixed Than We Imagined,January 8, 2012 David C N Swanson (Charlottesville VA United States) – See all my reviews< This book should mainstream the campaign to end corporate personhood. Clements traces the development of the legal doctrine of corporate …

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2011/12/31

Josh Kilbourn: Obama Signs NDAA Against US Civil Rights

Obama signs defense bill despite ‘reservations’ Julie Pace Associated Press, 31 December 2011 HONOLULU (AP) — President Barack Obama signed a wide-ranging defense bill into law Saturday despite having “serious reservations” about provisions that regulate the detention, interrogation and prosecution of suspected terrorists.

2011/12/27

Tom Atlee: Exploring Occupy 2.0 Part IV – Model Community Bill of Rights and Simultaneous Policy

Exploring #Occupy 2.0 – Part 4 – Model Community Bill of Rights and the Simultaneous Policy Here is another example of the potential of the Occupy movement. A major focus of Occupy is the need to radically reduce the toxic impact of corporations in our society and on our shared environment. Although corporations have a …

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2011/12/21

Michael Ostrolenk: Should Corporations Have People Rights?

Corporations are artificial creations of the state and receive special protections from the state. Thus, claims attorney and author Jeff Clements, corporations should not have the same Constitutional rights as individuals even though some argue that they are simply organized associations of individuals. In this interview with Michael Ostrolenk, Mr. Clements outlines his belief that …

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