edafe.org » rights http://edafe.org edafe.org is the personal site of Edafe Knabe. Sat, 12 May 2012 12:19:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Small change http://edafe.org/2010/10/small-change/ http://edafe.org/2010/10/small-change/#comments Wed, 20 Oct 2010 00:25:10 +0000 edafe http://edafe.org/?p=5893 Continue reading →]]> “Fifty years after one of the most extraordinary episodes of social upheaval in American history, we seem to have forgotten what activism is.” Malcolm Gladwell looks back at the beginnings of the civil-rights movement and tells why the next revolution will not be tweeted.
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]]> http://edafe.org/2010/10/small-change/feed/ 0 How constant beatings have caught up with campaigner Peter Tatchell http://edafe.org/2009/12/how-constant-beatings-have-caught-up-with-campaigner-peter-tatchell/ http://edafe.org/2009/12/how-constant-beatings-have-caught-up-with-campaigner-peter-tatchell/#comments Sun, 20 Dec 2009 17:18:57 +0000 edafe http://edafe.org/?p=5712 Continue reading →]]> “Only Peter Tatchell could be so enraged by something that is meant to calm him down. But as he grapples with the complicated security locks on his front door to let me out, it strikes me that perhaps the rest of us are lucky that he cares enough to carry on fighting, whatever the cause.” Elizabeth Day talks to Peter Tatchell, a man deserving of some respect.
www.guardian.co.uk

]]> http://edafe.org/2009/12/how-constant-beatings-have-caught-up-with-campaigner-peter-tatchell/feed/ 0 There’s probably no god.Now stop worrying and enjoy your life. http://edafe.org/2009/01/theres-probably-no-godnow-stop-worrying-and-enjoy-your-life/ http://edafe.org/2009/01/theres-probably-no-godnow-stop-worrying-and-enjoy-your-life/#comments Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:54:02 +0000 edafe http://edafe.org/?p=3975 Continue reading →]]> “The Atheist Bus Campaign began when Ariane Sherine wrote an article in June 2008 about Christian adverts running on London buses. These ads featured the URL of a website which said non–Christians would burn in hell for all eternity. Ariane suggested that atheists reading her article could each donate £5 to fund a reassuring counter–advert.”
www.atheistbus.org.uk

Update: Christian religious groups are about to respond with ads stating that “there definitely is a god”.

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]]> http://edafe.org/2006/10/changing-default-permissions/feed/ 0 A minute of silence http://edafe.org/2005/07/a-minute-of-silence/ http://edafe.org/2005/07/a-minute-of-silence/#comments Sat, 30 Jul 2005 21:53:47 +0000 edafe http://edafe.org/?p=1269 Continue reading →]]> Last week I got caught up in the traffic jam that followed the killing of an innocent man at Stockwell tube station. Today, I passed the same spot again. This time I stopped.

Remembering Jean Charles de Menezes one week after he was shot and killed by police at Stockwell tube station in London. What did the ubiquitous CCTV cameras record that morning?

Update: Reports are now emerging that Jean Charles de Menezes had already been restrained by an officer when he was shot in the head seven times.

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