35 Signs the Iraq War Needs to End NOW [PICS]

"Here's how it works: When you put a sign on the freeway, people will read it until someone takes it down. Depending on its size, content and placement it can be seen by hundreds of thousands of people. Here's what you do: (1) Put paint on cardboard (2) Put cardboard on freeway (3) Repeat

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New picture reveals head injury to G20 victim before death

A photo has emerged which reveals a head injury sustained by Ian Tomlinson during the G20 protests before he died.

The clip, which was handed to the Guardian newspaper and the IPCC shows the startling force with which his head appears to hit the ground.

And it seems to show the 47-year-old put up no resistance to the approaching police officers in the moments before he was hit and shoved to the ground.

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#DiggCons: The HQ for conservatives spamming Digg

From the site: "How do I give? It's simple. When you see a link in the #diggcon Tweet stream, click on it and Digg it, Stumble it, R-igg, it, etc." Provides a realtime stream of right-wing Digg stories, all meant to be upvoted by a cadre of members in a coordinated fashion.

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Drop the Charges Against Independent Journalists

Outraged over recent arrests of journalists at both the Republican and Democratic National Conventions? You should be!

"You won’t hear much about it in the tightly scripted primetime broadcasts from St. Paul, but local law enforcement is rounding up reporters in an aggressive – and sometimes violent – sweep outside the Republican National Convention. Their crime: committing journalism.

"Those arrested Monday while trying to cover street protests include Amy Goodman of the national radio and television program Democracy Now! and two producers from her show, as well as a photographer from the Associated Press. They’ve since been released, but the Democracy Now! team still faces serious charges.

"Other independent journalists have been pepper-sprayed and even held at gunpoint during “pre-emptive” raids aimed at disrupting protesters. Two videographers from Seattle’s Pepperspray Productions and several Kentucky journalism students remain behind bars as of this writing.

"Free Press, the national, nonpartisan media reform group, is calling on St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman and local law enforcement officials to immediately release from custody and drop all charges against any journalists arrested while covering events surrounding the RNC. In less than 24 hours, more than 35,000 people from across the country have signed letters protesting this gross violation of free speech and freedom of the press."

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Bill Moyers on What’s Wrong With Our Media

"It’s important who owns the press, as we’ve just seen and heard…but it’s also important who decides what is news. Why wasn’t it news last weekend when more than 100,000 people turned out in 11 cities across the country to protest the occupation of Iraq … but if you blinked while watching the national news, you wouldn’t have known it was a story?"

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