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Great reads from around the web on December 15th

Amy Sample Ward

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. After massive leaks of documents on the Iraq and Afghan wars and diplomatic cables from around the world, Wikileaks has demonstrated that it is a formidable threat to American legitimacy and power.

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What Are Your 2008 Activist Resolutions?

Have Fun - Do Good

Many of Latoya's readers shared their activist resolutions in the post's comments. Her resolutions include eating local organic food, teaching her students about healthier eating options, and volunteering at a community garden. 2008 resolution New Year activist activism Photo of sign from 2003 Iraq war protest by me.

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How-to: Let Go and Start Blogging

NTEN

This blogger writes with a personal flair, highlighting photos, statistics, government documents to comment on social and economic conditions there. The comments like many popular blogs are frequent and heated -- OW keeps up with all of it. If everyone can comment immediately, then errors, in fact, will be called out quickly.

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The Global Fund for Women: An Interview with Kavita Ramdas

Have Fun - Do Good

If you compare that to the budgets that we spend in just one day on fighting a war in Iraq, or the cost of an F16 fighter jet, you get some sense of how inordinately skewed those are. I think my comment in The Nation was really more about that.

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