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Ahmed Maher: 5 Facts on the Facebook Activist Allegedly Arrested in Cairo
By Mary Phillips-Sandy - AOL NewsSources have told Wired.com that Ahmed Maher, a young activist who helped organize the uprising in Egypt, has been arrested. Wired's David Wolman reports receiving the news after violence broke out in Cairo, but it has yet to be confirmed. Surge Desk has five facts on Maher, whose Facebook activism helped bring protests against Hosni Mubarak to the streets. 1. He leads a prominent online activist group Maher is a leader of the April 6 Youth Movement, a Facebook group that's become a hub for Egyptian activism. The group's first effort was a nationwide strike in solidarity with workers ...
When It Comes to Being Green, Browne Is No Pretender
By Chris Epting - AOL News"It's my favorite guitar, and I'm not just saying that." Legendary singer/songwriter Jackson Browne is cradling the beautiful new Jackson Browne Signature acoustic guitar, hand-crafted for him by Gibson, backstage after unveiling it at the recent NAMM music trade show in Anaheim, Calif. "And in the same way Gibson makes this guitar out of responsibly harvested wood, we have to be more mindful of what we are doing with the natural world." Browne, one of his generation's most poetic, incisive artists, is just as passionate about the environment as he is his music. Seamlessly blending song and ...
In Syria, Web Provides Small Window of Media Freedom
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Sept. 30) -- Digital freedom in Damascus? Don't count on it. During the times I've visited Syria, as a tourist not a journalist, I never encountered the same degree of state control that existed in North Korea or Saddam Hussein's Iraq. But most of the media is state owned, the rest is state friendly and public dissent is not tolerated. To a slight degree, the Internet has changed that. New York Times reporter Robert Worth notes the viral spread of a video of a Syrian teacher beating her students, which ultimately led the Education Ministry to issue a statement indicating she'd been ...
Evangelist Bill Keller: Glenn Beck and Gandhi 'Going to Hell'
By Carl Franzen - AOL NewsNEW YORK (Sept. 5) -- During the the inaugural worship service of a proposed "9/11 Christian Center at Ground Zero" on Sunday, evangelist minister Bill Keller slammed Islam and Mormonism as "lies from Satan." At the same time, Keller maintained that his project was not in opposition to the proposed construction of an Islamic community center two blocks away. "It's not an anti-mosque," Keller said of his proposed center, which would be the first physical church constructed by his online ministry, LivePrayer.com. "For lack of better terminology, it's an old-time Evangelistic center where we're ...
As Iran Election Anniversary Approaches, Green Movement Keeps Hope Alive
By Elizabeth Weingarten - Politics DailyThe Green movement is simmering in Iran. On June 12, the one year anniversary of last year's disputed presidential elections, people around the world will look East, watching expectantly to see if it bubbles over. In recent weeks, the movement has been quieted but not silenced. The recent hangings of five Kurdish "terrorists," sentencing of Newsweek reporter Maziar Bahari and incarceration of countless other journalists, dissidents and human rights activists have, of course, intimidated the public. Most are afraid to protest in the streets. They know the Revolutionary Guard could arrest, ...
The Courting Ritual for Sonia Sotomayor
By Bob Franken - Politics DailyIt is always great fun to be pompous and drop in a literary or historic quote to reinforce an argument. So let's deal with the controversy over Sonia Sotomayor's "empathy" by quoting Alan Jay Lerner, who wrote, "The law must be tempered by reason." Is everyone impressed, or what? ...
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