MoveOn is encouraging folks around the nation to host and/or attend Super Tuesday primary parties. It is shaping up to be a legendary presidential campaign season and major victories could be in-hand on Tuesday. Haven’t heard of any parties around here but I encourage you to host one, or go to one. And tell us…
Opened the old Siren e-mail and got a message from the Obama campaign wondering how the caucus went for everybody. And that’s a good question to ask. Thanks to your hard work, we won 13 national convention delegates today, and Hillary Clinton won 12. … However, we received many reports of people having trouble with…
Well kids, it’s almost here. Tomorrow is the big CaucusFest. Are you ready? Actually, I have a little confession to make. I’m not ready either. But lucky for me, all the organizations, candidates and other such entities who have been filling up my e-mail in-box lately have sent me an insurmountable amount of information today.…
The humble Sin City Siren gets a mention in Morra Aaron‘s (you might know her from CNN punditry) political post on BlogHer! Here’s what I said: Even as close as we are to the caucus, I still can’t get a sense of who will be going to this thing. As in, from the masses, regular…
LOVE THIS! Triathlete Eric Harr has partnered with CARE to raise money for the organization’s work to, as they say in their own words “tackle the underlying causes of poverty so that people can become self-sufficient.” They do this through initiatives for clean water, better access to education and HIV/AIDS work, to name a few.…
If you haven’t put the Nevada Conservation League blog on your regular Internet reading list, I really recommend it. Erin does a great job of finding good nuggets of information and giving you everything you need to do something with the info you’ve just gotten. Take yesterday’s post. In one post she talked about bans…
We all know the basic story of It’s a Wonderful Life. It’s your basic striver story, the kind that Americans love – George Bailey is trying to shake the dust of the crummy little town of Bedford Falls off his feet and he’s gonna see the world! But of course a little thing called life…
There’s a lot to be done. It’s hard to know where to begin. I’m assuming there are a lot of people out there that feel overwhelmed with activism, politics and the like. So I thought this short parable would be a good reminder to us all: Faced with a complicated assignment, a group of workers…
On Monday, Dec. 3 you can let the Department of Energy know exactly how you feel about a nuclear waste dump in our backyard. Officials will be hearing public comments during their meeting from 4-7 p.m. Let ’em have it! The meeting’s at Cashman Center, 850 Las Vegas Blvd. North. In addition, Erin over at…
So today is one of my favorite days of the year, as far as activism goes. It’s Adbusters’s Buy Nothing Day. The idea is to backlash against the uberconsumerism that is the Day After Thanksgiving by, well, not buying anything. It’s, as they say, “A 24-hour moratorium on consumer spending. Participate by not participating.” Also…
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