There is no such thing as a "fair" election, there are only elections that are more fair than others.

If you look right now at the Yahoo News page there are two conflicting stories:
1 "Obama lead on McCain grows to 12 points"
2 "AP presidential poll: Race tightens in final weeks"

Either Obama has a 12 point lead (Reuteurs) or 1 point lead (AP).

Arxiv.org has over 500,000 papers on Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology and Statistics.

It's an example of what is possible.

Activists should do the same (maybe not 500,000 at first, but starting off with a goal of 1000 would be good).

I think putting a ban on foreclosing mortgages and printing money (increasing liquidity) would "solve" the crisis. Let the banks fail (currently the largest bank that was failing was bought up by another corporation (JP Morgan I think) which seemed happy to get it!). Let the stock market fall 20%.

Also, I think there are more important economic problems in the US including unemployment, poverty, and non-existent or overly costly healthcare.

For the first time, the Canadian Green Party stands a realistic chance of winning a seat in current federal election.

It looks like they, after two elections of stagnated support (4.5%), they have intentionally embraced a strategy of vote-concentration. They've done this by forming a non-agression pact style alliance with the Liberals, allowing Green Party leader Elizabeth May to have a strong chance at winning her Central Nova riding in Nova Scotia.

Currently a bunch of organizations have their own website calendars. These generally include their own events, and sometimes events organized by allies. Quality and format varies.

There are also several websites that try to have a calendar that covers their geographical area (city or state), an issue, the US, another country, or even the world.

Most of the significant activist events (eg. conference level, not just a weekly group meeting) are located on organizational websites. They don't make it on to the "calendar" websites, like CampusActivism.org/ActivismNetwork.org.

Obama is calling for hope, but failing to talk about power and is failing to be an organizer. The goal of community organizing is for the organizer to help people realize that they have power, to help them organize around their grievances, and for the people to lead.

The Student Environmental Action Coalition has a new website.

I've worked on the website from 2001-2007, and before retiring, I transitioned the content over to a content management system (Drupal). So I'm glad to see that they are able to figure out the Drupal system and improve upon it!

You can see a beta version of the site I've been working on since January:

Energy Justice Map

The mapping is especially fast if you use the newly released Google browser Chrome
(For a map with a large number of markers, it is approximately five times faster than Firefox - which is an insane improvement!)

We're mapping around 10,000 power plants, primarily in the US, for the Energy Justice Network which is part of the Energy Action Coalition (a large coalition of anti-global warming groups).

I originally wrote this in 2004, but never published it anywhere. Here it is with some small edits.

“Information wants to be free.”
(Stewart Brand at the first Hackers' Conference in 1984)

“Activist information wants to be free too.”
(Aaron Kreider, 2008)

Introduction