Posted on December 21, 2008 by 40brown
“Hey, stupid! What’s wrong with it? There’s nothing wrong with condoms!”
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Posted on March 21, 2008 by 40brown
I am a big fan of the organization, Witness, and a recent project of theirs is called the HUB. Its kind of like YouTube for human rights. It will be interesting to see how the project goes – it has its pros and cons, but here is a good example of its use.
Note that the video that [...]
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Posted on September 25, 2007 by 40brown
Not an image that comes easily to mind, but its one that is a big concern for police and government officials in Burma. As thousands of monks demonstrate in pro-democracy rallies in Myanmar, Burmese officials are cutting off a main channel of communications- cell phones. According to Agence France-Presse, the military government has cut off [...]
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