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Sunday, August 23, 2009

90+ Scholars call on Human Rights Watch to publicize violations in Honduras

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Recently, I posted about Amnesty International's report on the dire and deteriorating human rights situation in Honduras. In contrast t...
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Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Amnesty International issues report on human rights violations in Honduras

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As several members of the police force beat 19 year old “D” and “A” one of them shouted “Leave all this crap, you’ve got to know the consequ...
Tuesday, August 18, 2009

From Honduras: "People of the world, don't leave us alone!"

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From Adrienne Pine , via Narco News , comes an urgent appeal from Radio Progreso (link to the left) in Honduras: Help! Our Voice, Radio Prog...

Justice campaigns in Bhopal and South Africa; commentary to follow

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Two campaigns, at once local and transnational, that I think deserve more attention: The first is the B’eau Pal Water campaign. This was org...
Sunday, August 16, 2009

Butterflies and Wheels, Sokal, and National Rum Day

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I see that Butterflies and Wheels has linked to my recent post, "Alan Sokal, science, and politics." Many thanks to Ophelia Bens...
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Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Grandin replies to Lanny Davis' lies

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Yesterday I posted a reply to Lanny Davis' lies in Friday's debate with Greg Grandin. Later, Grandin published his own reply - ...

Honduras solidarity campaign on Twitter and Facebook today!

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As I mentioned in a recent post , today is the Global Day of Action for Honduras. Now you can help to support the democratic resistance in H...
Monday, August 10, 2009

"Without Sanctuary" online exhibit and talk on lynching and capital punishment in the US

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It’s been a long time since I first learned of this exhibit and wanted to share it with people. Now I can. It’s called Without Sanctuary , a...
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Lanny Davis, Liar for Hire

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As they say . I finally had a chance to watch Friday’s debate between Greg Grandin and Lanny Davis on Democracy Now! . While a debate betwee...
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Sunday, August 9, 2009

GLOBAL DAY OF ACTION FOR HONDURAS - this TUESDAY, AUGUST 11

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Via Campesina has called for a Global Day of Action in solidarity with the Honduran resistance this Tuesday, August 11. I haven’t been abl...
Saturday, August 8, 2009

Alan Sokal, science, and politics

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I recently left a comment at Jason Rosenhouse’s EvolutionBlog (still in moderation, I assume because of the links), on a post containing P...
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Friday, August 7, 2009

CreoZerg Today!

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PZ and the 300* are at Ken Ham's Creation Museum today! Follow the action on Pharyngula here or on twitter: #creozerg. (You can go to ...
Tuesday, August 4, 2009

More AP lies about Honduras

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I won’t be able to post here or at Pharyngula for a couple of days (and don’t really have time to be writing right now), but this had to be...
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Sunday, August 2, 2009

"Profiles of the Godless": CFI's survey of nonbelievers

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Two studies on nonbelievers were recently completed. A few days ago, the Center for Inquiry published “Profiles of the Godless: Results from...
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Still chuckling

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...at Dawn Pitkin . ... ... (OK, so technically she's too old , but it still makes me laugh.)
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