Activism – Articles
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Privatizing Water as a Commodity – Scarcity of Natural Resources as Demand and Population Increases
Video https://youtu.be/5oyFRoxuf4g About Water is fundamental to life, yet it’s also a scarce commodity. In many cases, greed and mismanagement are causing this life-giving essential to run dry. What happens when water is monetized? From Australia to California, from...
How Small Cities Are Luring Remote Workers Away From Tech Hubs
Video https://youtu.be/oxiGJ7cGku4 About As the pandemic changes how -- and where -- professionals work, some smaller cities and regions are offering hefty relocation incentives to attract remote workers to help jumpstart their local economies. WSJ met one family who...
VICE News Reporter Hind Hassan Visits Taliban Militants
Video https://youtu.be/1lr8_OUa58c About On February 29, 2020, the United States signed a peace deal with the Taliban to end America’s longest war. The historic agreement was intended to create a pathway towards peace in Afghanistan, but one year later, violence in...
Black Community Leaders Speak Out Against Violent Protests
We've witnessed decades of violent and militant acts among right-wing extremists. Everything from incidents like the 1995 Oklahoma bombing, to more recent events like the attack on the U.S. Capitol. Right-wing extremists seem to be more heavily armed and motivated to...
Meet the Republicans Promoting Civility and Cooperation
While public attention has mostly been on extremism within the Republican Party over the past four years, there have also been some hopeful indicators for where the party may be heading in the future. I try to support leaders across the political spectrum who seem to...
Roger McNamee Discusses His Wired Article – “Platforms Must Pay for Their Role in the Insurrection”
In his article "Platforms Must Pay for Their Role in the Insurrection," [Wired 7 Jan 2021] Roger McNamee has asserted that Facebook, Twitter, and other social media services intentionally promote incendiary content. He states, "the algorithmic amplification of extreme...
This Won’t End Well: Big Tech Firms Censoring and Targeting Conservatives
Simple Predictions About five days ago, I wrote an article stating that kicking conservative individuals and groups off of social media would result in militant extremists moving to encrypted channels of communication on the dark web to launch attacks against the...
Response to Matthew Cooke “Wake Up Call for Republicans” Video
Video Here's the video. Below you'll find commentary and response. https://youtu.be/qud-CiuJTnI Commentary Two days ago, Matthew Cooke posted the video shown above. It's a compelling appeal that seems to be a kind of intervention effort designed to bring Republicans...
DOCUMENTARY: The Next Pandemic Could Come From an American Factory Farm (VICE News, 11 Dec 2020)
This video from VICE News examines how big-ag corporate factory farms create conditions that could incubate and spread the next big pandemic virus. (VICE News, 11 Dec 2020) https://youtu.be/8yPE0DuNvUg At 5m 19s in the video, VICE News describes the NPPC as the...
VICE Media Wrongly Tied to Militant Extremist Group
About VICE Media In 2015, when Barack Obama became the first sitting president to visit inmates at a federal prison, VICE Media was selected to be the media group to produce a video of the visit. [View] Journalists with VICE Media have been given exclusive access to...
Documentary: “Flint’s Deadly Water” — PBS FRONTLINE
About "An exclusive investigation into the side of the Flint story that few know about — an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease during the water crisis that continued to claim lives in the city five years later. A documentary that uncovers the extent of a deadly...
Philanthropy, Volunteering, and Public Interest Social Impact
Improving Quality of Life To enjoy life and help others do the same. That's a goal most people share. We all want to improve the quality of life for as many people as possible. Most of us want to leave the world better than we found it so future generations can enjoy...