Ah - I've been looking for this: ways people are sharing documents to make structures outside corporations. Creative Commons is building up some case studies of how CC licenses spread good ideas through the world.
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Case_Studies
Global Voices Online is a good one, I think: http://globalvoicesonline.org
...From 1773 to 2011, leaking incriminating documents into the public eye has been a powerful mechanism to galvanize revolutions.
Nothing quite like reading in black and white the recommendation for "abridgement of what are called English liberties".
Benjamin Franklin leaked Royal Governor Hutchinson's letters to the press back in 1773, triggering the Boston Tea Party and the American Revolution. (Franklin was actually trying to focus anger on a local governor instead of Britain - but once the truth is out, people act on it in their own way. After this affair and the British response to it Franklin gave up on reconciliation with England and became a revolutionary himself.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutchinson_Letters_Affair
The Remarkable Benjamin Franklin by Cheryl Harness is available in the Pima County Library - its a children's book but with some excellent information. I learn most things by reading books to my kids!
Article originally posted to bTucson.com under Politics and Government
...Most content sites and could use more serious, thoughtful writers. Brave activists in democracy movements around the world could use more financial support.
What if, content sites hire democracy activists who need to make a living, to research best practices in established democracies, in community building and local governance? They really need to think about these things and might have deep and genuine interest, and could write from a fresh perspective...
Now, if I just had a bunch of spare cash to pay out...
...Most companies are legally required to be selfish. That is, to put shareholder value over all other considerations including worker health, dangers to consumers, damage to the environment, or anything else.
Enter the "B Corp" - a kind of company that can legally pay attention to what most of us call values. Arizona doesn't yet recognize "B" Corps, but five states now do: Maryland, Vermont, Virginia, New Jersey and now New York.
Arizona? What does your legislator say?
see http://bcorporation.net
New law fosters benefit corporations
Background reading: The Corporation by Joel Bakan, available at the library.
Originally published at bTucson.com/193476
...google does presentation and display pretty well - but if the website adds structure and tools and clues
...2011-06-20 The Huffington Post ran a hard-hitting article Jun 17:Did Arizona Education Chief Huppenthal Commit a Felony in Growing Ethnic Studies Scandal?
Read it for yourself - the Tucson Weekly has posted a full PDF of the ethnic studies audit online
The audit appears to be a thorough review including unannounced classroom observations, student interviews and curriculum analysis. The audit firm, Cambium Learning, was chosen by Huppenthal's department to conduct the audit.
read more at bTucson.com under Schools
...franchise restaurant = convention over configuration but, the key is documented convention otherwise you just have a bunch of mysterious dependencies
...The cool thing about citizen journalism is you get to talk to really neat people. I talked to Randy Parraz, who led the Pearce recall effort, back in June. His voice was a little raspy after talking to thousands of voters, and the day after turning in the petitions he sounded a little tired, but took time to talk to me bright and early and explain how this turnaround came about.
So this was a big day for Arizona?
read more at Tucson Politics and Government
...Quotes from Shoot an Iraqi by Wafaa Bilal and Kari Lydersen.
Thought-provoking book...raw, kind of a flat humor without hatred even though a US military drone killed his brother, and Saddam killed numerous other family members. Some quotes :
"Solitude was such sweetness to me that it was worth risking my life for some time alone" - when staying at an aunt's empty house in Kufa during bombing, because he wanted to paint
I love this geography professor - "A joke started to circulate about [Ba'ath] Party officials telling a geography professor he must integrate party philosophy into his lessons. "How? I teach geography." They insisted. So he told his students "Iraq used to have a cold, wet climate in the winter and a hot, dry climate in the summer, without a drop of rain." (which is the reality). "But," he'd continue, "thanks to the Ba'ath Party, it's nice all year round now." "
"He (a cousin in Kufa) was arrested (for being a member of the Dawa Party, a militant Shia religious party), and later his body was returned to the family along with a bill for 72 dinars for the bullets used to execute him. He had been an
...The larval stage is when living in the host's brain; metamorphosis is the act of writing; and the mature stage capable of reproduction is in written form.
Sometimes larval stage ideas reproduce in casual conversation, but mass reproduction is almost always after metamorphosis. Even ideas transmitted in speeches or on TV have generally gone thru the transformative writing process before being re-emitted as speech.
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