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Federated Media has just announced a partnership with WordPress.com. "The deal will include all of the blogs that are hosted under the company which comes to around 25 million." WordPress.com users will now be subjected to a big re-vamp of corporate-sponsored advertizing.

Perhaps it's time you considered taking more control over your blog?

It's very easy, and not expensive, to leave Wordpress.com's (Federated Media's) generally irresponsible Software as a Service practices to instead host your own website. After all, Wordpress is Free Software (unlike Blogger), so you're nearly there already! You just need to follow these steps*:

The Mesopotamia Social Forum in Kurdistan: A Report and Photo Gallery

The forum's message was “Freedom Will Prevail” and its program contained around 80 activities that gathered 2,000 participants from 170 organizations. (According to the local organizing committee). The opening march was met with strong state police presence, although the local governments were supportive of the forum. Also, a march against violence on women, highlighting that Kurdistan is a place where honor crimes are a reality, was also faced with control and confrontations by riot police. Both confrontations with the Turkish state enforcements were without incident. And these confrontations highlight the tension between the local Kurdish government, who were supportive of the forum events, and the Turkish state government, which regarded the forum with suspicion.

Richard M. Stallman recently visited the Occupied Palestinian Territories for a series of talks on Free Software and related issues. After a false start when Stallman scheduled talks at Israeli universities, he acquiesced to the condition that on his Palestine-sponsored tour he would respect the boycott on Israel[0]. Ultimately, his trip was sponsored by ISOC[1], an organization committed to bringing free internet to Ramallah, along with a community fundraiser free from any corporate sponsorship.

Don't miss this week's Community Bridge radio show with Christopher Renner this Thursday, June 16, 2011 at 5:00 pm.

http://communitybridge.blogspot.com/

I'll be talking about the World Social Forum from Dakar in February 2011 as well as what's happening next. Another World Is Possible!

FSM Dakar - Ritimo 2011 from Cedidelp on Vimeo.

(26 April, 2010) Cochabamba, Bolivia - Movement activists in the United States continue to build alternatives to crisis through global collaborations such as at last week's Climate Change conference in Cochabamba, Bolivia. Alfredo Lopez of May First/People Link writes, "The converging crises in the major capitalist economies, the precarious state of the world environment, the political crisis in government in so many of the world's countries and the usurpation of government authority by international banks and committees have brought humanity to a point of urgency and the Internet, a commun

Join the Peoples' Conference on Climate Change Live on the Internet http://cmpcclive.org Launch: 20 April 2010 The response to the World Peoples' Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth has been overwhelming.

Dear Friends, We write to invite you to attend a workshop that will take place at the annual Left Forum conference this weekend in NYC. The session, Movement-Building Centers and Rekindling the Imagination of the Left, takes place on Saturday during Session 4, from 5:00 to 6:50 pm in room W604. The workshop focuses attention on Movement-Building Centers ?

Participate in Shaping the US Social Forum Workshop Tracks

The US Social Forum, MF/PL member, is preparing for June 2010 in Detroit by asking for feedback on its programming themes.