Conscientious Objector Status—Who Should Decide? (tags)
It is a fallacious and legalistic straw man ploy for any society or organization (such as the Department of Defense) to arrogate, as definition, that an individual must oppose “all” war on religious or ethical grounds to be considered a “conscientious objector”. Simply to be “conscientious” means to act from one’s “own” conscience—not from the collective hearsay of any particular group or on legalistic grounds of some corporate presumption. The individual conscience is the moral compass of conscientious authority.
Media Courtesans Take their Bows (tags)
Corporate Media gives itself a standing ovation on UN World Press Freedom Day
IMCs Need Better Marketin (tags)
Ideas on how to improve readership and interest in publishing on Independent Media Center. Why the right to right as a citizen is important. Opportunities to write more opinion than the scrawny Letters to the Editors that are hacked up to a few sentences is a way to go. Can’t main stream media practice democracy?
What the "Powers That Be" Have Feared Since Colonial Times Is coming to be. They should be shaking in their boots.
MAY DAY CARAVAN FOR JUSTICE! (tags)
What the "Powers That Be" Have Feared Since Colonial Times
How To Prepare For Children At Protests: Vice Versa Is Not Possible (tags)
Protest zones are important classrooms. Attending protests with kids is different than attending protests without kids. But going to a protest with an affinity group, or as a street medic, is also different than going alone. How should we prepare to take kids with us?
War on terrorism is a fraud (tags)
These are two fine articles from earlier that have been published on Independent Media Center. The first one is about the war on terrorism and the second one is about the oppressive system and what we can do together to make a real change. They interrelate. The first article lay out facts about the violent hegemony of US and the second article present concrete solutions to the situation. Please, take time to read them, print them and distribute them.
HIGHTOWER: Stand Up for Your Democracy (tags)
Look out America, here come the authorities to "defend" you against international terrorism.