"Theory of Change" -- what most institutions in DC don't understand
Nearly one year ago today, my life was changed by a blog post I wrote on OpenLeft entitled, "Profiles in Bad Online Organizing: Part 1 (DSCC)." In critiquing a DSCC petition to Norm Coleman, I wrote:
View ArticleDirector of DemandProgress Indicted
I just got this email:"Shocking news: Moments ago former Demand Progress Executive Director Aaron Swartz was indicted by the US government. As best as we can tell, he is being charged with allegedly...
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Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest: 7/21
To receive the Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest via email each weekday, sign up here.Senate:•FL-Sen: This is awfully thin, but could GOP Rep. Connie Mack be thinking about getting back into the...
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Aaron Swartz' Death Is Our Legacy
My inital reaction to the loss of Aaron Swartz can be summed up in this quote from the Electronic Frontier Foundation:While his methods were provocative, the goal that Aaron died fighting for — freeing...
View ArticleChallenge Obama/DoJ on Aaron Swartz
Aaron Swartz committed suicide after being hounded by the DoJ for a victimless crime.There are plenty of memorial diaries, but I'd like to focus on a fact-based look at the DoJ and its priorities. We...
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Family & Friends Blame U.S. Attorney for Aaron Swartz's Death
26 Year old internet genius Aaron Swartz, founder of Reddit, was bullied into suicide by the overzealous prosecution by the U.S. attorney according to family and friends. He faced 35 years in prison...
View ArticleIn Memory of Aaron Swartz
From the Belly of the Beast...It's Sat. night Liberal Talk Radio! We're Live and taking your calls at 417-717-1454. Aaron Swartz is the topic of discussion. Join us in our new Google+ hangout where...
View ArticleWhat Aaron Swartz did at MIT
Courtesy of The Tech, we have the following summary of what led to the prosecution against Swartz:In the basement of Building 16 there is a wiring and telephony closet, known as Room 16-004t. Between...
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Aaron Swartz, Intellectual Freedom Fighter, 1986-2013
Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves. The world’s entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is...
View ArticleThe Threat of an Informed Public: Where Hackers & Whistleblowers Intersect
Aaron Swartz, Jake Appelbaum, Bradley Manning, Thomas Drake, Jeremy Hammond . . . wanted not only to "liberate information," but to inform the public. Aaron Swartz's suicide has brought these lofty and...
View ArticleAnonymous hacks MIT- A tribute to Aaron Swartz~UPDATE x 3~
Link to Anonymous Facebook page illustrating the MIT defacementGoogle Cached version of MIT's defaced website~UPDATE~Demand Progress, which Aaron founded, has a moving tribute to him HERE.It says, in...
View ArticleAaron Swartz and the Choices We Have To Make
I weep for Aaron Swartz. Today on Democracy Now Lawrence Lessig gave us insight into this brilliant man who died--hounded to death in the most literal sense of the term 'to hound'--to torment. When...
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In Aaron's Name, Change This Law
Computer programmer, writer, archivist, political organizer, and Internet activist, but most of all son, brother and friend, Aaron Swartz tragically took his own life last week. One of the many...
View ArticleFiring Swartz Prosecutors (TWO hackers have committed suicide on their...
Yesterday, it became public that Stephen Heyman oversaw TWO excessive prosecutions of hacker-defendants who committed suicide, Aaron Swartz and Jonathan James.There are multiple petitions circulating...
View ArticleAaron Swartz: Hidden facts and speculation
FACTOne of the major questions about Aaron Scwartz's suicide has been the role of MIT. Kevin Cullin at the Boston Globe (paywall) answers that one. One of Swartz's earlier lawyers (there appear to...
View ArticleSurveying the Debt Ceiling Battle: Time for Kicking Ass. Live on...
On this Martin Luther King Birthday, a new show; Fripp (not that one) and Steve are live this morning with fresh audio. Taking on the usual suspects: Tennessee GOP's Marsha Blackburn who has no problem...
View ArticleAcademic publications and Aaron Swartz
I am sad about the overeager prosecution and tragic death of Aaron Swartz. Since I have a little experience in the world of academic publications I have been thinking about how things can change in the...
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The Evening Blues - 1-15-13 Aaron Swartz
Welcome! "The Evening Blues" is a casual community diary (published Monday - Friday, 8:00 PM Eastern) where we hang out, share and talk about news, music, photography and other things of interest to...
View ArticleIt's a start :: Aaron's Law
“Like most others, I was a seeker, a mover, a malcontent, and at times a stupid hell-raiser. I was never idle long enough to do much thinking, but I felt somehow that some of us were making real...
View ArticleLessig and Demand Progress: Demand justice for our friend Aaron Swartz
LETTER ISSUED BY DEMAND PROGRESS AND HARVARD LAW PROFESSOR LAWRENCE LESSIG:We spent Tuesday burying and mourning our friend Aaron. We're sad, we're tired, we're frustrated -- and we're angry at a...
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