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Occupy Wall Street Will Write Off Your Debt

The Rolling Jubilee initiative buys up bad debts from banks. Instead of hounding poverty-stricken individuals, the debt is automatically forgiven. End of story.

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Redditors Rise Up Against Holocaust Deniers

The Holocaust subreddit was being run by neo-Nazis and Zionist Conspiracy theorists. Some on Reddit were desperate to take action, but how?

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Westboro Baptist Church Versus Freedom of Speech

How do we cope when freedom of speech allows something really hateful? With their God Hates Fags funeral picketing, WBC forces a debate on the issue.

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Kony 2012: In Defence of Justin Bieber and AnonyOps

Kony 2012 politicized the mainstream seemingly overnight. Not everyone is happy about that. Watch the slap-downs begin.

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Bee Costumes for Anti-GMO Rallies, Protests & Marches

Help save the bees by creating a BUZZ about how GMO crops and pesticides are killing bee colonies across the globe.

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Guy Fawkes Mask | Symbol of the Anti-Establishment Movement

The pale face with the evil grin and the pointy beard have become a symbol of corporate greed and the mask is showing up on activists at protests and rallies all over the globe.

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SOPA Strike! American Censorship Day Makes Internet History

On January 18th 2012, over 115,000 websites went dark or censored their content. It was a protest over SOPA and PIPA.

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How to Become an Activist

You are passionate about your cause. The cold fury burns up. You want to change the world and do it right now. So how do you go about that?

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Interview with an Amnesty International Activist

There are roughly 150,000 people registered in the AI Urgent Action Network. I am one of them; and Page Ferguson has asked me all about it.

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In the Wake of ACTA Comes the Trans-Pacific Partnership

A veritable onslaught of US trade agreements seek to secure global copyright protection. TPP (aka TPPA) is next.

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Blackout! The Internet Goes on Strike Protesting SOPA and PIPA

Wikipedia, Reddit, Minecraft, Wordpress, Avast and Cheezburger will be blacked out on January 18th 2012. I will also be joining the protest.

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Does Internet "Slacktivism" Hurt or Help Real Activism?

Are you a genuine activist or just a "slacktivist"? What do you do to encourage real change versus just promoting feel-good internet memes?

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King Arthur's Stonehenge campaign to return the bones

Druid leader and eco-warrior King Arthur Pendragon is campaigning to get the bones of the ancient dead returned to Stonehenge.

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How important are you?

mankind goes and comes in a daily routine never stopping to realize, or know, if he or she is making a difference in anyone's life or not. This personal quest is what I talk about.

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What is ACTA?

After the success of seeing SOPA and PIPA shelved in the USA, activists have now set their sights on the global Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement.

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SOPA and PIPA are Shelved by the US Congress

After an unprecedented wave of global protest, the two pieces of legislation at the centre of the storm were finally dropped.

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A Theoretical Conspiracy Theory Theory

Are conspiracy theories a conspiracy to discredit any questioning of our governments?

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The Baltimore Riots 2015

An op-ed regarding my views on the recent riots and brought the city of Baltimore, MD to knees. Why did it happen? Why was it allowed to happen? How do we avoid it in the future

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