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Post by Brian on Feb 4, 2014 0:00:46 GMT -8
It's time for a new edition of this message board's most popular thread.
That's because I noticed that the new software treats members and guests differently when they click on the Last Posts on the right side of the homepage. Logged in folks get the last post. But guests who clicked on the venerable "Links to activism" were taken to the first post in 2008. That thread has 580 posts on 58 pages, which didn't matter much on the old board. Everybody got the latest page of a thread when they clicked a link on the homepage. So Anni and I will now occasionally move posts and start threads to try to make things easier to follow for our visitors -- and potential new members, we hope.
The upgrade also removed the Reply buttons from the Recent Posts page, a favorite of most members here. You can still reply directly to any post from there with only one extra click. Just click on the blue name of the topic, then the brown Reply square on the next page.
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Post by anni on Feb 10, 2014 9:38:12 GMT -8
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Post by Brian on Feb 13, 2014 0:00:26 GMT -8
Readers of the first "Links to activism" thread will recognize the Peace Alliance, a favorite of ours that breaks new ground at the root level, which has joined with other organizations including the Friends Committee on National Legislation in a letter to Assistant Secretary of State Rick Barton and his boss, John Kerry. They're calling on Barton, who heads the Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations, to expand peacebuilding operations in the CSO with a comprehensive and specific list of the personnel who ought to be included in conflict resolution overseas. This is labeled a petition, but it's really a customizable letter:
org.salsalabs.com/o/696/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=14889 |
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Post by Jeanne on Feb 13, 2014 6:14:20 GMT -8
Thanks for the link. I like the concept of "civilian surge."
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Post by Brian on Feb 21, 2014 0:00:50 GMT -8
Daily Kos sends me a lot of e-mails because I signed some petition last year, and many of them are annoying, but I had to respond to this one. All of us have been following the arrest and trial of the three peace activists who trespassed at Oak Ridge in Tennessee, exposing the Energy Department's lax security while protesting the existence of nuclear weapons, which still threatens ours. Daily Kos plays the old nun angle, ignoring the two men also sentenced to long stays in federal prison: "Prosecuting protesting nuns while letting bankers who crashed the economy walk free is outrageous. You should be ashamed and you should be working to hold bankers accountable." That's the entire text, and it's addressed to the Justice Department, an agency not swayed by popular will. Wacky, but I signed the petition anyway -- after all, I'm already on the e-mail list: www.dailykos.com/campaigns/694Here's the fine Daily Kos blog: www.dailykos.com/story/2014/02/19/1278688/-Judge-sentences-84-year-old-Nun-to-3-years-for-2012-Oak-Ridge-Anti-Nuclear-Weapons-protest?detail=action |
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Post by anni on Feb 24, 2014 11:18:58 GMT -8
February is almost over, yet the long-term unemployed people whose benefits ran out two months ago are still waiting for Congress to do something about it. Just Foreign Policy has teamed with MoveOn.org to circulate a petition to the legislative and executive branches to fund an extension of benefits with $5.7 billion that the President never wanted in the recent Pentagon budget:petitions.moveon.org/sign/extend-unemployment-assistan?source=c.tw&r_by=1135580
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Post by Brian on Mar 19, 2014 23:00:29 GMT -8
Peace Action is back in this thread, this time with a so called petition to stop funding the F-35 aircraft. The petition is not addressed to anyone, which means that it's probably a device to build a e-mail list for the Global Day of Action on Military Spending on April 14. Peace Action is working on the campaign with eight other organizations, including American Friends Service Committee and Brave New Foundation, to aim "a constant stream of pressure" from taxpayers and peaceniks alike to cut huge waste at the Pentagon. So this is just the beginning: org.salsalabs.com/o/161/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=15309 |
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