A great way to fight hate speech

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Thursday December 06, 2007 · 1:39 PM PST

2007/12/06 · 13:39

My good friend Mark Kleinschmidt is an anti-death penalty attorney and a twice-elected member of the Chapel Hill Town Council. He is also gay. This last fact qualified him for membership on a list that is making the rounds on hate sites called the "National List Of Openly-Homosexual Public Officials." (And no I am not going to link to these fools, you can probably Google it.)

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Tuesday September 11, 2007 · 8:21 AM PDT

2007/09/11 · 08:21

As my observance of the 9/11 anniversary, I'm blogging on related topics over at http://FORpeace.net for the Fellowship of Reconciliation. Here's my first entry of the day.

Today is the sixth anniversary of 9/11 and there are so many things I want to say. I'll start with a shout out to September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows. This is a group that responded to tragedy with compassion instead of vengeance. Here is an excerpt of their statement on this anniversary:

We have witnessed the use of 9/11 to justify the slaughter of tens of thousands of people in Iraq and Afghanistan. Thousands of our own soldiers have been killed. Two million refugees in Syria and Jordan languish in poverty and desperation. And we have witnessed as well the suppression of our constitutional rights at home. We have been unable to stop any of it.

rubyji

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Monday August 06, 2007 · 6:16 AM PDT

2007/08/06 · 06:16

Just heard Cokie Roberts on NPR briefly discussing the presidential candidates at Yearly Kos. Her simplified report actually missed the facts of the story. Basically she said: "these kooky bloggers like John Edwards, But Hillary Clinton is making progress and gained a lot of support there."

Is it possible that where Roberts comes from boo-ing is a sign of support? (Not likely as she's from a DC power family.) More likely she is eating the MSM dogfood, and I guess regurgitating it is easier than actual reporting.

rubyji

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Sunday August 05, 2007 · 8:50 PM PDT

2007/08/05 · 20:50

At Yearly Kos I kept hearing that local blogging is where it's at. There were two panels and a caucus on "state-local blogging." The San Francisco Chronicle reports that "Local blogs are key to future of politics." People are learning that the smaller the area represented, the more impact each constituent has (as was also pointed out in this article I blogged about last week).

And yet, there was hardly a mention of county or municipal politics at Yearly Kos, other than how to work with local Democratic Parties. I'm certainly not opposed to advocacy targeting state and federal reps - in fact BlueNC.com does a great job of this and more power to them and their brethren across the country - but I think that truly local politics transcends party and hinges much more on individual relationships and reputations in a way that even state house races really don't.

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Wednesday November 08, 2006 · 10:59 AM PST

2006/11/08 · 10:59

Following up on my post from last week, folks are organizing RootsCamps (like BarCamp) for progressive organizers to debrief the 2006 election and talk about next steps.

Andrew Hoppin (of CivicSpace, Clark campaign, etc.) and I are organizing RootsCamp in Second Life. The event will run for a week with daily gatherings at 4pm starting today! Please come see us there or just visit the wiki to suggest topics or speakers.

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Friday November 03, 2006 · 1:00 PM PST

2006/11/03 · 13:00

I know I can't be the only one. Following on the success of BarCamps around the world, where geeks get together to share information and build community in a collaborative "unconference" format, folks are organizing RootsCamps for progressive organizers to debrief the 2006 election and talk about next steps. My colleague Andrew Hoppin and I are taking it one step further, to the new(ish) frontier of Second Life! Read More

Wish I could gloat...

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Friday November 04, 2005 · 7:46 AM PST

2005/11/04 · 07:46

Much as I'd like to, I'm finding it difficult to gloat over the latest poll showing that Bush's popularity with Americans in plummeting in every way. It really just makes me ill.

This decline is only hapenning because people are finally waking up to the corruption and totalitarianism that have ruled this White House from day one. Why couldn't people see this a year before Bush's re-election instead of a year after? And for that matter, why are they still only paying attention the very tip of the iceberg? Read More

Meanwhile back at the ranch...

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Friday July 22, 2005 · 10:58 AM PDT

2005/07/22 · 10:58

It's not that I'm not interested in observing Bush's attempt to replace Rove with Roberts in the headlines, but meanwhile... government keeps churning. Congress is strengthening the goddamn Patriot Act, and we may not have any rights left to quibble over by the time we have yet another white male on the Supreme Court.

I know it seems dull compared to watching volleys in the match over whether Rove or Roberts gets the headlines, but this may well have more serious long-term implications than all the damage both of them can do. Let's make sure the long-term impact of the Patriot Act doesn't get completely buried while today's issues get worked and re-worked in the headlines.

Blogging ProChoice Lobby Day in Oregon

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Thursday February 24, 2005 · 9:56 AM PST

2005/02/24 · 09:56

Hey dKossacks! Today is Planned Parenthood of Oregon's annual lobby day and for the first-time ever, they are blogging it! http://prochoicelobbydayoregon.blogspot.com/

Participants will be posting their experiences throughout the day, and folks who can't be there in person can read along and add their comments. Please pass the word about this, especially to progressive Oregonians! Help them make this a success and demonstrate the power of blogging.

My hope is that if it goes well this will help encourage other PP affiliates and progressive nonprofits to use blogs and other network-centric tools in their advocacy work.

Scared right wingers called me up!

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Monday February 14, 2005 · 12:22 PM PST

2005/02/14 · 12:22

Even more stunning than the incredible fact that this guy paid a web company to build his pornographic website, is this: about 120 seconds after I left a comment commending John for his research, I got a PHONE CALL from someone falsely claiming to represent John at AmericaBlog.org asking me to please refrain from commenting as I was "inappropriate" and then hanging up. So I called John immediately to let him know and confirm my suspicion that this was coming from "the opposition" (whoever the hell that is). The call clearly did not come from John. These right-wing losers looked me up (I always post with my full name) and called me at work to intimidate me!!! They are SO AFRAID. I can't help but quote their dear leader and say "bring it on." Read More

Dole Bomb

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Wednesday September 01, 2004 · 9:07 PM PDT

2004/09/01 · 21:07

Originally posted this on my blog last night.

Listening to Senator Elizabeth Dole speak at the RNC
...When did my Senator turn blonde?
...She made a joke referring her role when her husband was the candidate in 1996. No-one got it.
...I can't believe she is so rabidly and vocally anti-choice and anti-gay! I can't believe she ran as a moderate in NC. And of course my fellow citizens (easily snowed by 30 years of Jesse Helms) bought it.
...She says "The constitution guarantees freedom of religion, not freedom from religion." So we are required to practice a faith to maintain citizenship status? What?

Keyes-ian Wisdom

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Wednesday September 01, 2004 · 9:06 PM PDT

2004/09/01 · 21:06

I don't think there is a more entertaining Republican than Alan Keyes right now. You probably already heard that he called Dick Cheney's daughter Mary (and all her gay and lesbian ilk) a "selfish hedonist." But wait, there's more!

AMERICAblog has the entire transcript and the audio of the interview:

Homosexuals are essentially incapable of procreation. They cannot mate. They are not made to do so. Therefore the idea of marriage for two such individuals is an absurdity.
...
[Homosexuality] is the mutual pursuit of pleasure through the stimulation of the organs intended for procreation, but it has nothing to do with sexuality because they are of the same sex. And with respect to them, the sexual difference does not exist there, and therefore are not having sexual relations.

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