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Activist and writer Pramila Jayapal gives us new ways to think about immigration, migration and movement. She challenges xenophobia and discrimination, laying out powerful arguments for embracing migration.
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Even when our lives appear fine from the outside, locked within can be a world of quiet suffering, leading some to the decision to end their life. JD Schramm asks us to break the silence surrounding suicide and suicide attempts, and to create much-needed resources to help people who reclaim their life after escaping death.
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Christina Xu is a trustee of the Awesome Foundation founded in Boston by 10 friends. Now with chapters worldwide, the independent, self-funded Foundation awards $1,000 grants monthly to small projects they deem ‘awesome’.
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“Every Waste Water Treatment Plant produces Sludge. A third of the total waste volume going to a landfill site is sludge. About half a million tonnes per year just for the lower North Island of New Zealand and the problem just keeps on getting bigger.
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Rebecca MacKinnon describes the expanding struggle for freedom and control in cyberspace, and asks: How do we design the next phase of the Internet with accountability and freedom at its core, rather than control?
Tags: citizens demand that their governments protect free speech and their right to connection, comicStyle, Consent of the Networked, Egyptian Revolution, Ethan Zuckerman, expanding struggle for freedom and control in cyberspace, expert on Chinese Internet censorship, Featured Content, former head of CNN’s Beijing and Tokyo bureaus, Gail Penney, Global Voices Online blog network, How do we design the next phase of the Internet with accountability and freedom, how should we be regulating networks, Ideas worth spreading, internet is headed for a 'Magna Carta', Is there a human rights penalty we pay for trusting basic human connection to the Internet?, lifeStyle, main blog, mindStyle matters, penneylane, penneylaneonline, Rebecca MacKinnon, Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation, social lives online, Ted Talk, treatise on the future of liberty in the Internet age, turnStyle, VidStyle, www.penneylaneonline.com
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