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Tool: CiviCRM for better communication
By: Frederick Noronha, DigiActive, April 15, 2009 When a small campaign becomes a permanent organization, there are often difficulties in scaling. A small group can communicate with supporters through a Google Group, but what if you have multiple constituencies or you want to record information about your supporters that will help you communicate with them effectively? Wouldn't you like to manage your "relationships" better? Or, be more efficient in sending out appeals and updates? Tap the right quarters when it comes to fund-raising? Know exactly who your potential supporters could be? Read full article... Nation-state routing: Globalizing censorship By: iRevolution, April 13, 2009 I just found an interesting piece on Internet censorship at arXiv, my favorite go-to place for scientific papers that are pre-publication. Entitled "Nation-State Routing: Censorship, Wiretapping and BGP," this empirical study is possibly the first to determine the aggregate effect of national policies on the flow of international traffic. 'As government control over the treatment of Internet traffic becomes more common, many people will want to understand how international reachability depends on individual countries and to adopt strategies either for enhancing or weakening the dependence on some countries.' Read full article... Roma are scapegoats during downturn By: Marina Litvinsky, IPS, April 8, 2009 On International Roma Day, Wednesday, human rights groups voiced their concern for the discrimination and violence against Roma in European countries. Held on Apr. 8 every year since 1990, International Roma Day draws attention to discrimination directed at Roma and gypsy communities globally, according to Amnesty International (AI). Roma are stigmatised as criminals based on the actions of a few, according to Paul Legendre, director of the fighting discrimination program at Human Rights First (HRF). Roma are often viewed as a scapegoat for broader societal ills, often characterised as outsiders who are less than citizens and are unwanted in their respective communities, he explained. Read full article...
 NOTICESBy: ICSR/ICNC, at the Carnegie Institute for International Peace, Washington, DC, April 22, 2009 At this event, experts from the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence (ICSR) in London will present their recently published report Countering Online Radicalisation-A Strategy for Action (www.icsr.info), and experts in civilian-based struggles for rights will assess how militant struggle can be shifted from violent to nonviolent means. For more information... Panel to discuss building solidarity with Iraq's civil resistance By: The National Organization for the Iraqi Freedom Struggles (NO-IFS), April 19, 2009 Although eclipsed from the headlines by the ongoing carnage in Iraq, there is an active civil resistance in the country that opposes the occupation, the regime it protects, and the jihadist and Baathist "resistance" alike. This besieged opposition - under threat of repression and assassination - is fighting to keep alive and extend elementary freedoms for women, leading labor struggles against Halliburton and other U.S. contractors as well as Iraqi businesses, calling for relief for the masses thrown out of work since the U.S. invasion, opposing privatization of the country's oil and other natural resources, and demanding a secular future for Iraq. For more information... Shut down ICE: Civil disobedience training By: Twin Cities Indymedia, April 2009 For 3 years now people have been marching, petitioning, lobbying for change. We have heard hopeful words from the Obama administration, yet as we write, more national guard are being sent to the border, families are being torn apart, our communities are being terrorized, and workers are sitting in detention centers, where documented human rights abuses have occurred. For more information and training dates... Share this article: 
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