Archive for category Netroots
10 Questions for presidential candidates
Posted by Ruby Sinreich in Advocacy 2.0, Netroots, nptech, politics, rants on October 17, 2007
My friends at echPresident are launching a new site today called 10 Questions. The idea is to take the “YouTube debate” that gave regular people a chance to ask questions of the Democratic candidates a few months ago, and make it even more democratic by allowing the community to vote on which questions [...]
Why I’m fasting tomorrow
Posted by Ruby Sinreich in Advocacy 2.0, Netroots, Second Life, nptech, politics, rants on October 7, 2007
Because it’s not enough to vote in November. Because it’s not enough to write letters to Congress. Because it’s not enough to march in the streets of Chapel Hill, Raleigh, Fayetteville, and Washington. Because it’s not enough to reduce my consumption of fossil fuels and boycott businesses that support the war [...]
Virtual registration of real voters
Posted by Ruby Sinreich in Advocacy 2.0, Netroots, Second Life, nptech, rants on August 15, 2007
Since you read my blog religiously (what? you don’t???) you know that I have been facilitating weekly meetings of the SL Netroots group that emerged from RootsCamp in Second Life back in November. In January, this group put on Avatars Against the War, bringing over 100 people to a peace protest held at [...]
RL media covers SL politics
Posted by Ruby Sinreich in Netroots, Second Life, nptech, politics, rants on February 22, 2007
Thanks to Sara Donnelly (a.k.a. Sara Susa in Second Life) of the Portland (ME) Phoenix for her coverage of the Avatars Against the War protest. Sara attended many of our meetings as well as the protest and I appreciate her taking the time to learn about what we were/are doing.
(Speaking of what we are [...]
BBC interview & SLNN story
Posted by Ruby Sinreich in Netroots, Second Life, rants on February 1, 2007
With the gracious permission of Chris Vallance of the BBC’s Pods and Blogs radio show, here is the audio of the BBC Radio interview (4:46 2.9MB MP3) mentioned below.
You can read the show notes and hear the whole program on the BBC website. (Thanks to the awesome Audio Hijack software by Rogue Amoeba for [...]
I’m! In! Wonkette!!!
Posted by Ruby Sinreich in Netroots, Second Life, news, politics, rants on January 31, 2007
Wonkette posted Rik’s machinima of the protest – without attribution – and generally made fun of us, called us hippies, etc. As Rik pointed out: “there’s no such thing as bad publicity.” And as I replied: “there’s also no such thing as a kind word from Wonkette.” In other [...]
Post-protest processing
Posted by Ruby Sinreich in Advocacy 2.0, Netroots, Second Life, nptech, rants on January 31, 2007
First, you can now hear my interview with the pods & blogs show on the BBC HERE! I’m not sure how long this audio will be available, so listen now…
A lot of reporters have been asking me for statements about the march so to save us all time, here it is. Use at [...]
Monday we march
Posted by Ruby Sinreich in Advocacy 2.0, Netroots, Second Life, nptech, rants on January 29, 2007
Tomorrow this space will be full of avatars:
You know, some of us just thought this peace protest in Second Life would be a fun thing to do, but we really hit a nerve in the community. I think we’re going to make a big splash at 5pm EST today (Monday)!
In the past few days [...]
Avatars Against the War
Posted by Ruby Sinreich in Netroots, Second Life, nptech, politics, rants on January 27, 2007
Our weekend of peace in Second Life is already going great! The latest plans and SLurls are at the RootsCampSL wiki.
First of all, errcheck Hick’s workshop today was great and was attended by at about a dozen avatars. We now have a groovy sign you can carry that changes textures with a [...]
If you’re not going to DC…
Posted by Ruby Sinreich in Advocacy 2.0, Netroots, Second Life, politics, rants on January 25, 2007
Everyone who can should be in DC this weekend reminding Congress that we voted against this war! But if you can’t go, come see us on Progressive Island!
We’ve got a bunch of activities planned including a rally at Capitol Hill which will be filmed! Here’s the latest:
Posters for Peace. Gallery exhibition with free [...]
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