Category Archives: Twitter
My Take on #BanglaSpring: #MangoDown
I checked out the #BanglaSpring tag on Twitter yesterday. First impression was yet another social media engineering event using realistic looking but fake accounts. A lot of the information being posted is hard to verify – Conflicting reports on #Bangladesh death toll – Between 28 and 3500 ciibroadcasting.com/2013/05/06/con… #BanglaSpring @channelislam— Azhar Vadi (@AzharVadi) May 06, […]
Petition | #HumanRights Org: Stop misconduct of mining companies in #Mauritania
Please sign the petitions on change.org here: https://www.change.org/petitions/mauritanian-human-rights-organization-stop-the-misconduct-of-mining-companies-in-mauritania and on Avaaz here: http://www.avaaz.org/fr/petition/Sauver_la_Mauritanie_de_la_Pollution_Miniere_de_KINROSS_TAZIAZET We need to urge the government to make these mining companies sustain the environment and preserve the landscape for the future generations. These corporation need to assume social responsibility and take a hand into developing the local communities instead of devastating them… We aspire to break the […]
We are the System
Qu’une révolution détruise un gouvernement en laissant intacts les modes de pensée qui lui ont donné naissance, on les retrouvera dans le gouvernement suivant. On parle beaucoup de système, mais on ne sait pas de quoi on parle. Traité du zen et de l’entretien des motocyclettes de Robert M. Pirsig If a revolution destroys a […]
Posterous is closing down
Having been bought by Twitter a year ago, this was always on the cards; posterous.com is closing down and my lissping blog will no longer be accessible as of 30 April 2013. Old links will just die.. no redirects, nothing. I noticed today that the posterous site has developed technical problems which prevent me from editing […]
#m25fev Protest: Valuable Lessons
Today’s #m25fev combined protest in Nouakchott scored a massive moral victory over the violence and repression of the ruling military regime. Today was the second anniversary of the mass protest which took place in Mauritania amid the chain of similar uprising across the Arab world that began in late 2010. Once again, crowds rallied in a piece […]
