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A PASSION FOR PLACE:
New Pamphleteers/New Reporters -- Convening Entrepreneurs
Who Combine Journalism, Democracy, Place and Blogs
June 4-6, 2008 / Univ. of Minneapolis
http://www.newpamphleteers.org
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Standingup is in New York City and has sent awesome pictures!

This is an open thread ...

From-
Trent Lutz
Executive Director
Democratic Party of Oregon

Oregon Democrats,

Over 4,000 American soldiers have died. Over $500 billion has been squandered.

It’s time to end this war.

with avahome

Since its inception in 2005 the members of ePluribus Media have built a large body of published stories on the systemic abuse and corruption generated by the Bush Administration and its Loyal Bushies. Lately, we have been seeing some of these "chickens coming home to roost." Lurita Doan is the latest in the flock that is giving us something to "crow about."

Lurita Doan was nominated by President Bush in April of 2006 to head the Government Service Agency which controls, among other things, the awarding of government contracts and in May of 2006 she was unanimously confirmed. By April of 2007 she was in front of congress doin' some s'plainin' about the way she was running the organization.

As CNN reports:

Doan's resignation comes 10 months after the government's the Office of Special Counsel recommended to the White House that she be disciplined to the "fullest extent" for violating federal laws against using government employees for political purposes, a finding she denied.

It seems as if cronyism is just, well, second nature to this crew:

The agency's inspector general criticized Doan for signing off on a $20,000 no-bid contract with a friend's public relations agency and accused her of "a disregard for the rules" in managing the $17 billion agency.

Keith Barratt wrote an op-ed on Lurita's congressional testimony, highlighting the arrogance and disrespect Ms. Doan conveyed when testifying. This op-ed was published on the ePluribus Media Journal [now in the Archives]. Has the term "public service" lost meaning for our private corporations?.

kudos to Avahome for the original research

Hans von Spakovsky

Back in June of 2007, Adam Lambert (with the support of ePluribus Media researchers) wrote a comprehensive, three part article on von Spakovsky. Part I - Hans Von Spakovsky: Right choice for FEC Commissioner? covered von Spakovsky's background in the Georgia Voter ID laws and Texas Redistricting. Part II-Hans in the Sockpuppet looked at his involvement in the U.S. Attorney purges and his advocacy of Voter Roll purges. Part 3-Permanent Recess Appointment reviews von Spakovsky's recess appointment to the Federal Election Commission.

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For Earth Day, Protest Home Depot's Complicity in Destruction of Patagonian Wilderness by Proposed Chilean Dams

By Forests.org, project of Ecological Internet

April 21, 2008

TAKE ACTION
Patagonia's wild rivers to be dammed, destroying ancient
temperate forests, for 50 years of electricity; please let
supposedly environmentally responsible Home Depot know they should not be doing business with the project's primary
Chilean advocate.

I wanted to post a little commentary, welcoming all the new members ...
ePluribus Media is in its 4^th year and still growing strong.

ePluribus Media is one name with many parts, so I offer a little overview of who we are, what we do and how we do it ...

I love to garden, and until recently was trapped in a townhouse with nothing more than a patio [lanai in Hawaii] and a 10x15 patch of grass.

My adventures in patio gardening started a this spring, with Gardening for Cave Dwellers: Part 1 -- potatoes in a barrel.

At the same time I planted my potatoes, I planted organic tomato seeds. These finally grew into seedling big enough to transplant into my "upside down" system.

The "hanging" planter I am using is ready made, but there are creative ways to devise your own. Here at Seeds of Knowledge they show you how to construct a hanging planter from a plastic bucket.

1. [...]drilling a 2-3 inch hole in the bottom of the bucket.

2. thread the leaves and stems down through the hole so that it hangs out of the bottom of the bucket

Originally posted Mon, 04/07/2008 - 17:25 - beautiful pieces of art that won't last long - standingup

This year's sand castle competition in Oregon - stunning ...