May the protests tomorrow in Algeria, Libya, Yemen, Iran, Bahrain and other nations be as constructive and peaceful as is humanly possible. Revolution 2.0 2011 democracy protests version is not only about justice, human rights and democracy as end goals, but also about peaceful cooperation and nonviolent civil disobedience as both a strategy and a philosophy.
This is not to say that all worthy revolutionaries will receive the support of the world (the earth is dim), however in the end that may not matter, for as Wael Ghonim and other Egyptian April 6th Youth Movement leaders have so clearly demonstrated, home grown kindness just can't be beat.
Wildfire and National Forests
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This blog post was co-authored with Dave Owen, at UC Law SF. The draft
article this blog post series is based is here. This is the third in a
series of bl...
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