Archive for May, 2008
Saturday, May 17th, 2008
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“Any community—online or off—must start slowly, and be nurtured… It simply must happen gradually. It must be cared for, and hosted; it takes time and people with great communication skills to set the tone and tend the conversation.”
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Friday, May 16th, 2008
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Monday, May 12th, 2008
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
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“Mildred Jeter helped change America….Mildred had married the man she loved, Richard. One night, as they slept, armed agents of the state burst into their home. They surrounded the couple and began the interrogation….”
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“Mildred Loving (1939 — May 2, 2008) filed and won a landmark U.S. court appeal in defense of her own interracial marriage that became the legal standard used to eradicate laws against mixed marriage across the country.”
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“Mildred Loving, a black woman whose anger over being banished from Virginia for marrying a white man led to a landmark Supreme Court ruling overturning state miscegenation laws, died on May 2 at her home in Central Point, Va. She was 68.”
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“Loving v. Virginia … was a landmark civil rights case in which the [U.S.] Supreme Court declared Virginia’s anti-miscegenation statute … unconstitutional, thereby overturning Pace v. Alabama and ending all race-based legal restrictions on marriage.”
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“The [14th Amendment] requires that the freedom of choice to marry not be restricted by [racial discrimination]. Under our Constitution, the freedom to marry … a person of another race resides with the individual and cannot be infringed by the state.”
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“Americans need to read [Mildred Loving’s] statement and see how far we’ve come and how far we still have to go to protect liberty and equality in this country.”
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Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
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“China has blocked access to all Blogger blogs ahead of the Olympic games that begin in Beijing three months from now.”
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“The Internet must be open during the Beijing Olympics. That was the message a top-ranking International Olympic Committee official delivered Tuesday to Beijing….”
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Monday, May 5th, 2008
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“In a troubling ruling by the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) can continue its practice of warrantless searches through computer data held by U.S. citizens and foreigners alike.”
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“The Association of Corporate Travel Executives is warning its members to limit the amount of proprietary business information they carry on laptops and other electronic devices because of fears that government agents can seize that data at U.S. borders.”
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“It’s good for Microsoft that it didn’t buy Yahoo — now it has to reform itself.”
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