This is why I started my boycott against Hollywood films and content. Why despite my resolve being put to the test by my proclivity towards geekery and nerdiness, I have refused to pay for tickets to watch The Hobbit, The Dark Knight Rises last year, and turning my back against Star Trek: Into Darkness this month. …
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Feudalism is Healthy and Well in Sarawak, Malaysia.
Corruption, kickbacks, and stealing land from aborigines is all clearly exposed in this 16-minute long undercover exposé. While one may read about such shenanigans depressingly frequently on Sarawak Report, it is another to clearly hear the players and see their faces as they plot to earn millions more at the expense of the people living …
Demand Justice for Aaron Swartz
Sign this petition by Demand Progress, the organisation Aaron helped to establish to dismantle SOPA/PIPA. We may not be USA citizens. But adding our global voices can do much to stop crimes of this nature to befall anyone else in those corporate states of America.
Let’s Help End Rape Culture in India
The Avaaz petition is finally ready to be unleashed upon the Indian government. Let’s all add our voices to signal our support for legislative initiatives to ensure women are no longer treated like second class citizens in India; and to change the cultural dialogue in the most populated democratic country on this planet. It is …
Microsoft Screws Non-Windows Users with Windows 8 and Secure Boot
Little known fact to non-geeks out there. Microsoft, as part of their corporate plan (presumably written somewhere dark and dank, like an office cubicle) to maintain hegemony over the computing world, have “encouraged” the implementation of Secure Boot which prevents the loading of any other operating system other than Windows 8 on devices certified to …
Time is Running out for Uganda’s LGBT Community
If you have yet to sign the AllOut petition, it is imperative that you do so now to stop the atrocity about to occur. Although signing online petitions may seem ineffective, it empowers activists on the ground doing the legwork — lending them the voices of hundreds of thousands from around the world.
Obama. Stop the Drones.
The worldwide euphoria over Barack Obama winning a second term is not shared by the people of Pakistan — a country where 14% preferred Mitt Romney over 11% who prefer the now two term president of the US. It is not hard to understand why when one has to live under the constant fear of …



