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.
Our National Parks are Open — and Openly Threatened
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“I’m still here working.” That’s what a park ranger at Yosemite National
Park told me last Friday, as he made his rounds. Anyone who thinks they can
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