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Urgent: Seth Meyers, NBC comedian

lundi 17 novembre 2025 à 05:37

In the US: call on NBC to stand With Seth Meyers — Don't let the bully make you take him off the air.

If you sign, please spread the word!

How I relate to the perennial wisdom

dimanche 16 novembre 2025 à 05:37

Aztec ideas of training one's moral strength and steadiness have something in common with what I've learned from my own campaigning.

I can confirm point 1 directly. When I choose to strive for freedom and justice in the world, it's not that I expect that having more freedom and justice myself will make me personally happier. On the contrary, there are defeats and failures and they hurt. But overall, my life is worth something because of working for a goal beyond my own happiness.

Points 6 expresses very clearly something that the long struggle for software freedom has more or less aught me. And it probably applies to any other political cause that requires a struggle that isn't over soon.

Points 7 and 8 are directly related to firm rejection of nonfree software. By doing that, I have built that rejection into a habit which helps me keep doing it. And years of finding ways to do various things without running nonfree software, because I refuse to run the nonfree software, has taught me that the resulting inconvenience is manageable.

I suspect that this wisdom literature was older than the short-lived Aztec empire and that they inherited it from previous civilizations in the Valley of Mexico.

Urgent: Coffee-giant corporate picket

samedi 15 novembre 2025 à 11:37

US citizens: Tell the Starbucks CEO that you won’t cross the picket line.

See the instructions for how to sign this letter campaign without running any nonfree JavaScript code—not trivial, but not hard.

Urgent: Block this corporate Rail merger

samedi 15 novembre 2025 à 11:37

US citizens: call on the US Surface Transportation Board to block the Union Pacific-Norfolk Southern Mega-Merger.

Urgent: Spy agency accountability, US

samedi 15 novembre 2025 à 11:37

US citizens: call on Congress to continue to require confirmation hearings for the heads of US spy agencies, so it can impose at least minimal accountability in how they spy on Americans.