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Threatened Voices: An Interactive Map

Ethan Zuckerman

My friend and colleage Sami Ben Gharbia just launched a fascinating and useful new site: Threatened Voices. It’s an interactive map of bloggers under arrest and under threat around the world, with an accompanying timeline that makes it possible to track the phenomenon of arresting bloggers over the past several years. It’s an uncomfortable fact that, as blogs become a more influential public space, the technique of arresting bloggers to silence online speech becomes increasingly...

Hossein Derakhshan, Now Detained for Over a Year

Ethan Zuckerman

Hossein Derakhshan (”Hoder”) has now been in prison in Iran for more than a year. My friend Cyrus Farivar has followed his case closely, and has been in touch with Hoder’s family, who confirm that he’s beeing held in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison. Reports from the activist group Human Rights in Iran suggest that Hoder has been held in solitary confinement for long periods of time, beaten and otherwise mistreated, and that Hoder was considering a hunger strike...

Paul Van Zyl: Why America Needs a TRC

Ethan Zuckerman

Ethan Zuckerman is blogging from Camden, Maine, at the wonderful Pop!Tech conference. Paul Van Zyl was an anti-apartheid organizer in South Africa. When Mandela became president, he became the executive secretary of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and he’s now co-founder and EVP of the International Center for Transitional Justice. He explains that in the four years from Mandela’s release from prison to free elections, an enormous amount of work had to be done. South...

On Connecting The Dots - A Response To Lessig On Transparency

Ethan Zuckerman

Celebrated legal scholar, intellectual property activist and now congressional reformer Lawrence Lessig has written a provocative and somewhat surprising article in this month’s New Republic. Titled “Against Transparency“, the article questions whether a move towards increasing government transparency – as advocated by President Obama as a candidate and by nonprofit groups like the Sunlight Foundation – will lead towards better government or, as he fears,...

Tip Of The Day - Welcome To Hebron

Regine Debatty

If ever you happen to be in Patras (Greece) on Sunday, Oct 4th, for the International Film Festival don't miss the screening of the film Welcome to Hebron. If, like i guess most of the readers, you can't make it to Patras, you can also catch the film in Montpellier at the end of the month or in Stockholm and in Kassel in November. Two weeks ago Welcome to Hebron won a prize at the Cinefest Daazo Competition in Hungary. I saw it recently in London. The film was part of Goshka Macuga's...

China Gradually Improves Environmental Transparency

Ben Block

Very little is known about pollution levels throughout China, despite the country's worsening air quality and imperiled waterways. In 2006, Chinese environmentalist Ma Jun estimated that 100 cities nationwide provided no public data on water pollution. Two years later, the Ministry of Environmental Protection authorized its Measures on Open Environmental Information, a new effort at public disclosure. The freedom-of-information law requires municipalities to provide details on which...

The Rights of Future Generations

Alex Steffen

Some people seem to have a hard time even understanding the concept of the rights of future generations. The idea that people who do not yet exist have the right to assert their needs in our lives is one that seems to be hard to fully grasp. Think of this example: If someone set a bomb to go off in a public square 100 years from now, is he committing a crime? Should he be stopped? Almost everyone would say yes. Should he be tried before a court of law and prevented from doing further harm?...

VIDEO: A New Sound

WorldChanging Team

by Eric Hess Green For All (the organization started by Van Jones in 2007) has a new video out that’s worth taking two minutes to watch: (If the video doesn't work, watch it on YouTube.) Why do I like it? It gives a clear audible and visual depiction of the difference between a dirty fossil fuel economy and a clean energy economy. Visually demonstrating green jobs — along with promoting smart policies to back them up — helps move the issue into the foreground of public debate. And...

Future Melbourne

Alex Steffen

We're big fans of open government efforts. Future Melbourne is a pretty amazing project, an attempt to harness the power of open government and collaboration to tackle the kinds of foresight and planning efforts even most big cities find themselves unable to take on. Their agenda is pretty ambitious: Future Melbourne has a vision for the municipality to be a bold, inspirational and sustainable city in 2020. To realise this vision, six high level goals have been set: to build a city for...

Transparency Means Nothing Without Justice

WorldChanging Team

By Cory Doctorow The footage of police action at last summer's Climate Camp – and the lack of response since – demonstrates the limits of a cyber-liberty dream An activist is arrested as others participate in a march towards Kingsnorth power station from the Camp For Climate Action 2008. Photograph: Daniel Berehulak/Getty We cyber-liberties types are very big on government transparency -- on the right to carry our cameras into every altercation with authority and to put it all...

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