South by Southwest Interactive Festival Hosts 11th Annual Web Awards From Earthtimes AUSTIN, Texas, Feb. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- The South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive Festival announced finalists in 18 categories for the 11th annual SXSW Web Awards, which uncover the best new websites and celebrate the top digital innovators building and implementing tomorrow's online trends. Judges of the 11th Annual Web Awards will select the best in Web innovation from hundreds of entries submitted across the globe, with winners in 18 categories, including: Activism, Amusement, Art, Blog,...

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Fighting for Free Speech From Workers' Liberty The University had also banned another student from the library after his much-publicised protest against the cost of library cards. Many different people at the University stood in support of the protest, and although the protest was small in number, it brought together people with a range of different concerns. The University of Nottingham Students Union refused to support the protest, and all the organisation and resources for the event were drawn from grass-roots student activism. One of...

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Monolithic Terminology From sexinthepublicsquare.org (or not, as it were) problem standing in the way of uniting various groups who have sex work as an interest, and it is a problem of semantics and how often the sex industry, and the people in it, is dealt with in a monolithic fashion. How do we go about making distinctions, demystifying the monolith, and seeing that the correct terminology for the various strata of people involved in the sex industry is put into place and used? The term "Sex Worker" is an insult to people who have been/are...

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Womens Fightback: Campaigns and activism From Workers' Liberty Southall Black Sisters, for many years the only militant women's organisation fighting for ethnic minority women is facing the threat of closure as a result of Ealing Council's decision to withdraw vital funding in April 2008. The council say there is no need for specialist services for black and minority women, and that services to abused women in the borough need to be streamlined. The suicide rates of Asian women for example, are three times the national average and homicides - where...

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Weak Market Bolsters Activism From Hartford Courant Activist shareholders are on a roll, launching initiative after initiative to change the companies whose shares they own. When stock prices aren't rising, significant change in top management or splitting up a company is increasingly attractive to shareholders. Pickens, a raider as well as activist, spent the 1980s targeting companies he considered undervalued. But a recent study by professors Stuart Gillan of Texas Tech University and Laura Starks of the University of Texas found that,...

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