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“Technology enables #OWS …
… among many other movements”, says Ellen Miller, Co-founder and director of Sunlight Foundation, Washington DC. The Sunlight Foundation is a non-profit, nonpartisan organization that uses the power of the Internet to catalyze greater government openness and transparency, and provides new tools and resources for media and citizens, alike. Sunlight […]
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Intimidation Tactics of the Police Force
Mayor Bloomberg should show some support for the demonstrators instead of him and and the bankers belittling and harassing them and having the taxpayer pay for the over-representation and overtime of the police forces.
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Educated and Unemployed: The Dilemma of Graduates in Africa
The commodification of Africa’s universities and the policies of mass recruitment of new students are alarming given the limited number of institutions to accommodate the mass influx of learners from secondary schools to tertiary institutions and onto the labour market. With the whole […]
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Bloomberg is quite similiar to Crassus …
… says Jeff Hirshorn, native New Yorker. I talked to him at Liberty Square Saturday around noon. He’s been observing the protests from its very beginnings and has some interesting thoughts to share. He compares Mayor Bloomberg with Crassus in Rome, says that Liberty Square is just the “front stage” […]