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Bradley Manning, Nobel Peace Prize Nominee

Bradley Manning, the US army private first class accused of linking information to WikiLeaks, has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by the group The Movement of the Icelandic Parliament. Manning is faced with charges that include aiding the enemy, wrongfully causing intelligence to be published on the internet, theft of public property or records, transmitting defense information and fraud and related activity in connection with computers, CNN reported. [...]

 

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Occupy Oakland Finance Transparency Report

After several efforts to request a meeting with ficomm to discuss issues that were passed along to me. As a member, for several months I’ve seen a complete lack of transparency & accountability. I was able to contact one member, however after attempts to meet over months.I decided, to catalog as many records as I could with the access I had to OO finance commitee andcreate this report to hopefully give anyone [...]

 

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Occupy Oakland's UA signer resigns

After careful consideration I am choosing to formally resign my position on the Occupy Oakland Financial Committee (FiCom) effective immediately. The position I held as the UA signer voted on & passed by the Finance Committee.  My responsibility as UA signer was to hold legal liability to the Oakland Association For an Improved Future business account and to carry out proposals passed by the GA. Due to negligence by the current members [...]

 

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Occupy Technology: Managing Social Media Accounts

Social Media Security & Transparency One of the many achievements the Occupy Wall Street movement can claim is that it conclusively demonstrated how powerful social media can be when used for a collective purpose. Unfortunately, for Occupy groups and other horizontal or resource poor organizations, maintaing a strong social media presence can be as difficult as it is vital. No one gets paid. There is typically a high turnover rate- [...]

 

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Opacity and creeping exclusion at Occupy

This was published with considerable feedback from several bloggers at Corrente: DCblogger, affinis, lambert and okanogen. My sincere thanks to all of them for their help. Occupy has seemed to be in a bit of a winter hibernation. There are still encampments, meetings, decisions, protests, and so on, but it seems like there has been a relative lull in its activity level. This is fine; you can’t stay cranked all [...]