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Body Scanner: FAIL
Interview with a TSA screener reveals fatal flaws… It’s time for us to put an end to this mindless security theatre&#
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China gains more freedom as we lose???
More and more it seems like China is gaining freedom as we lose it at an exponential pace… Proposed Chinese Copyright Changes Would Encourage Re-Use China Unblocks Sensitive Keywords YouTube Partially Unblocked In China
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Civil Liberties Initiative – 3/31/2012 Minutes
For those of you that joined us last night at 472 Madison, thanks for coming! I think it was a great discussion/debate/brainstorm-session. We threw around a lot of good ideas for direct action on
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CROSS REACH
What is Cross Reach? It’s the phenomena when we reach across divisions in political ideology to cooperate on issues that affect us all… The Occupy Albany Civil Liberties Initiative experienced this when we
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Third Date Added for the I.T. Skill-Share Teach-In!
The I.T. Working Group is hosting Skill-Share Teach-Ins to show Working Group members how to access and post to the website. Also, we will be assisting with Listserv mailing lists for Working Groups
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Nonviolent Direct Action 99 % Spring Training – Tuesday April 10 6:30 – 9:30PM
As part of the national 99%Spring organized by a coalition of over 50 unions, community and activist organizations, Occupy Albany will hold a 3 hour training on the history, strategy and tactics of nonviolent
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Political Strategy Schedule Change
On 3/31/12, the Political Strategy working group made the following meeting time schedule changes: Last Saturday of each month, 1:00-2:30 pm will be a forum for discussing, defining, sharing viewpoints about the issues and
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Larry Wittner: Activist’s History of Movements APRIL 7
Larry Wittner is both an activist and a historian of the peace, labor, civil rights and socialist movements, as a founder of the Solidarity Committee, officer of UUP and the Albany Labor Council, professor
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Matewan by John Sayles March 23rd
A dramatization of the events leading up to a famous shootout in the struggle to unionize the coal fields of West Virginia. The movie shows oppression of the miners by the coal companies; cooperation
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ZAPATISTA! Film & Discussion
With exclusive access and interviews with Subcomandante Marcos, Noam Chomsky and others, Zapatista is the definitive look at the Zapatista uprising, its historical roots and its lessons for the present and the future.January1, 1994.
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