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Entries from December 2007

Working People On Ponce De Leon


By Will Riley

December 29th, 2007 · No Comments

For those of us who travel up and down Ponce de Leon Ave. in Atlanta Georgia, past the City Hall East, and in front of the Home Depot, the daily sightings of day laborers is all too familiar and all too uncomfortable. [...]

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Tags: Participation · Transparency

On Prescribing Environmental Action


By Will Riley

December 25th, 2007 · No Comments

The Yale Science-To-Action Collaborative published a list of Action Items to fight global climate change. I was very pleased to see media and education as top priorities for environmental action. Merv Williams was less pleased:
” An incredible collection of academic clap-trap. Not [...]

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Tags: Transparency

Kucinich and Gravel Unfairly Excluded From Iowa Debate


By Will Riley

December 16th, 2007 · No Comments

Our democracy relies on the media to broadcast the views of all Americans, but the Des Moines Register, recently violated its journalistic responsibilities by excluding Dennis Kucinich and Mike Gravel from the last Democratic debate before the Iowa caucus. What does this [...]

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Tags: Accountability · Participation · Transparency