03/03/2010   Save Auntie Beeb from Murdoch's minions

The BBC is on the brink of surrendering to pressure from commercial rivals, who are lobbying politicians hard to impose even deeper cuts. The BBC may not have many friends in the rest of the media, but public pressure has saved it before, and can save it again. 38 Degrees will be delivering their petition to the BBC Trust later this week.

 13/02/2010   David Coetzee, progressive journalist and publisher 1943-2010

David Coetzee, the founder of the alternative information bulletin SouthScan, for a number of years the most significant source of independent, uncensored information about what was going on in apartheid South Africa, passed away on 24 January 2010 at the age of 66.

 04/02/2010   Hackers Steal Millions in Carbon Credits

Credit card numbers are so passe. Today’s hackers know the real powerhouse data to steal is emission certificates.
26/01/2010   YouTube's video choice prompts Firefox fightback

Firefox isn’t supporting the H.264 video standard because it’s patented and the patent owners want fees: it’s not free. But if Google and YouTube make it ubiquitous, will users have a real choice? Should they care?

 15/01/2010   Radical booksellers take on Amazon

Fifty years ago, in the aftermath of World War Two, a group of pacifists opened Housmans radical bookshop at its current address at 5 Caledonian Road, in London’s Kings’ Cross.

 13/01/2010   Court rules against government on Stop and Search

stopandsearch graffitistopandsearch graffitiLiberty has won a landmark case against the government’s recent enthusiastic use of Stop and Search powers. The court found that current law is not “subject to adequate legal safeguards against abuse”.
13/01/2010   Google threatens to stop supporting Chinese filtering

After discovering cyber-attacks targeted at Chinese human rights activists, Google has said it’s not prepared to carry on with its complicty with Chinese government content censoring.

 26/11/2009   Take a stand against violence against women. Take back the Tech!

Join the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-based Violence by taking control of technology.

 19/11/2009   Sh!t Matters

– especially on World Toilet Day. CLTS is using the opportunity to raise awareness about the importance of sustainable and safe sanitation systems around the world.