Tag Archives: development

Whack A Lebanese Politician!

Written by jessica. Posted on October 3, 2008. Filed under Uncategorized. Tagged , , , , , , . No comments.
I played Whack-A-Politician on Facebook, thumped a few Lebanese politicians with a judge’s gavel and managed to—quoting the game: “say no to useless talk and speeches of hatred and war”. The game also asks you to “Use your mouse and click to silence a politician before another citizen leaves Lebanon.” A non-political, non-religious NGO working [...]

Blog Action Day 2008: Join the Global Discussion

Written by jessica. Posted on September 8, 2008. Filed under Uncategorized. Tagged , , , , , , , , . No comments.
Blog Action Day 2008 Poverty from Blog Action Day on Vimeo. On October 15, 2008, we’re uniting at Rootspace (or anywhere from your blog) with the entire blogosphere and raising our voices about poverty on Blog Action Day–a worldwide initiative to post blogs about a common cause in a single day. Bloggers from around the [...]

Web 2.0 and Oppression: How to Bypass Censorship

Written by jessica. Posted on July 23, 2008. Filed under Uncategorized. Tagged , , , , , . 3 Comments.
Remarkable is the power of Web 2.0 in helping alter the status quo of suppressed activists around the world. Social media is opening the eyes of the public on several issues by generating a huge flow of information, initiating counteraction from hegemonic regimes that may find certain ‘novel’ thoughts a threat to the continuity of [...]