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Take a moment and Vote for Peter Gabriel to get a spot on this year's Time 100. In the article, he's credited with launching 'the Hub, a so-called YouTube for human rights' which was built with Drupal by a number of the folks right here at CivicActions!

I had a great meeting this morning with a couple of my partners and Guy Sengstock. During the meeting, one of the things that we discussed was taking 100% responsibility for how a message (or communication) is received.

I've been thinking about it all day. As I was looking around for quotes on the subject tonight (which I'm still searching for), I ran across this great webpage on communication styles from the Pegasus NLP Newsletter. Here's a great excerpt:

Owen mentioned this (fairly scary video on mind control) at our partners retreat:

We've been working a good part of the year on the upcoming launch of the WITNESS video hub, and we just received word that WITNESS will be receiving the first ever National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Humanitarian Award at the Public & Community Service Emmy® Awards ceremony in New York City on November 9th.

From the NATAS Press Release

According to the Police Report, Andrew Meyer was detained and tased for "inciting a riot". Hmmm, I didn't see video of that. MTV journalist James Montgomery invokes an image of terrorism by stating that Andrew "Hijacked" the microphone in the second paragraph of his story.

U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero in New York struck down controversial portions of the USA Patriot Act in a ruling that declared them unconstitutional yesterday, ordering the FBI to stop its wide use of a warrantless tactic for obtaining e-mail and telephone data from private companies for counterterrorism investigations.

The secrecy provisions are "the legislative equivalent of breaking and entering, with an ominous free pass to the hijacking of constitutional values," Marrero wrote in his 103 page opinion.

Richard Stallman was visiting my home this week, and he picked up a new book I had on my coffee table. The next morning, he mentioned that he had read The END of AMERICA, Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot, by Naomi Wolf, just published by Chelsea Green Publishing. RMS told me that he couldn't put the book down. He read the entire book that night. He also mentioned that he had blogged it as URGENT. "Really?" I asked.

Amnesty International USA just launched tearitdown.org, and with it an online movement to tear down the prison at Guantanamo Bay. Visitors to the new Web site can eliminate one pixel from a photo of Guantanamo by signing a pledge protesting the U.S. government's detention center. This is extremely cool!

Major environmental organizations are behind the times reaching a rapidly growing audience of web surfers. Perhaps you can help.

Backtags.com has a nice service that tracks the links from major bookmarking sites. A recent analysis shows the percentage of links from the top bookmarking sites to various environmental (and other sustainability oriented) NGO's(compared to Treehugger):