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A Place Like Lloret

March 31, 2010
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A Place Like Lloret

As the bus drove further and further out of Barcelona, I stared out the window, following the coastline as it occasionally disappeared behind a hill or houses.  I watched the Costa Brava unfold in fr
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Away throwing discs

March 27, 2010
By bicyclemark
Away throwing discs

Something I rarely do, I'm on hiatus for the next three days. Off throwing plastic discs in some tacky part of Catalunya. Til I get back I recommend you browse the archives and categories; after mor
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Hiding ACTA From the World

March 21, 2010
By bicyclemark
Hiding ACTA From the World

The first time I heard about the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) was in a news report on EURACTIV.com about how something called ACTA had suffered a defeat in the EU parliament.  I figured
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Dangerous Lobbying

March 14, 2010
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Dangerous Lobbying

Lobbying is a strange practice when we're talking about how a government works.  In theory, lobbying is what citizens can do to try and influence what their representatives do; write a letter, make a
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Dutch Municipal Elections Article

March 7, 2010
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Dutch Municipal Elections Article

The following is an excerpt from a piece I wrote this past week for the Guardian CiF, to read the full text, click the link below: The media have recycled the same headlines following Dutch electio
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Spike in Airline Prices

February 28, 2010
By bicyclemark
Spike in Airline Prices

The last night of February 2010 has me looking forward and asking the difficult questions about just what I'm going to focus on, push myself to do that is new and innovative, and where I will take thi
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Starving Mongolia

February 21, 2010
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Starving Mongolia

In two months time I expect to be traveling through Siberia and Mongolia.  As I read up on the places I might pass through and what citizen journalism is going on there, I've run into the ongoing hum
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Voices of A People’s History Night

February 14, 2010
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Voices of A People’s History Night

Friends and readers in the Amsterdam area and beyond, I've been hard at work planning, reading, and organizing the details of a reading-performance even in honor of Howard Zinn and his greatest wo
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