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The DEMRI
News and content from the Development Establishment Maintenance and Refinement Institute (DEMRI) http://www.demri.org/
Last Update: Tuesday November 04, 2008 12:52:15 AM
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Reporting Voter Suppression Incidents
Category: Community Development - Community Builders, Society: African American Interests, News, Politics
DEMRI.org is committed to protecting and upholding the Right to Vote for all Americans during the 2008 U.S. Election process. Anyone experiencing incidents of Voter Suppression or Intimidation should report them immediately! The DEMRI has setup a special contact page here on the site to facilitate the reporting of Voter Suppression incidents.
Added to Feed: Tuesday November 04, 2008 12:52:15 AM McCain Flip-Flops 8 Days Before Election - Video
Category: News - Latest, Economy, News, Politics
For those of us following the election, it’s become clear McCain’s final strand of hope over the last couple of weeks has been calling Obama a socialist. This tiny, tenuous foothold was given to him by Obama when he said the phrase, “spread the wealth” when talking to the now famous Joe the Plumber. That’s it. That’s what McCain...
Added to Feed: Tuesday November 04, 2008 12:36:05 AM If This Gets Out, McCain is Finished - Video
Category: News - Latest, Politics, News, Education:higher Education
For those of us following the election, it’s become clear McCain’s final strand of hope over the last couple of weeks has been calling Obama a socialist. This tiny, tenuous foothold was given to him by Obama when he said the phrase, “spread the wealth” when talking to the now famous Joe the Plumber. That’s it. That’s what McCain...
Added to Feed: Friday October 24, 2008 06:08:51 PM CNN Gives Sarah Palin License To Twist Facts
Category: News - Latest, Opinion / Editorial, News, Politics
CNN's interview broadcasted this evening with Sarah Palin, by CNN's Drew Griffin gave Palin creative license to twist the facts about Joe Biden's recent statements regarding a potential international crisis.
Added to Feed: Tuesday October 21, 2008 10:09:12 PM CNN Launches Media Campaign To Revive Rev. Wright Controversy
Category: News, Politics, Election 08, Education:higher Education
Today, CNN began an overt iniative to revive the controversy regarding Rev. J. Wright, a controversy that dominated the media during the presidential primaries earlier this year, but lost traction for being a simple attempt by the republican party to discredit the democratic candidate. Corporate media life support is once again in high gear keeping the republican ticket alive...
Added to Feed: Monday October 20, 2008 09:11:47 PM Video: John McCain & The Making of a Financial Crisis
Category: News - Latest, Blogging & Social Media, Business, john mccain
The current economic crisis demands that we understand John McCain's attitudes about economic oversight and corporate influence in federal regulation. Nothing illustrates the danger of his approach more clearly than his central role in the savings and loan scandal of the late '80s and early '90s. Watch, Listen, Read More...
Added to Feed: Monday October 20, 2008 09:17:58 PM Republicans Mocking American Democracy
Category: volunteer, News, Politics, News - Latest
I didn't plan on responding to what I heard from the republican convention last night (September 3, 2008) until it was all over. But if you saw what I saw you know that it demands a multilateral response.
We witnessed McCain's attack squad of negative, cynical politicians insult the very core of American democracy. They lied about Obama and Biden,...
Added to Feed: Thursday September 04, 2008 04:10:46 AM Obama Blasts Bush-McCain Failed Polices
Category: Election 08, News, Politics, News - Latest
Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois accepted the Democratic presidential nomination Thursday night, declaring that Sen. John McCain of Arizona, his Republican opponent, was not up to the task of resolving America’s economic and foreign policy problems.
“Tonight, tonight, I say to the people of America, to Democrats and Republicans and independents across this great land — enough!” Obama declared as thousands...
Added to Feed: Thursday September 04, 2008 04:09:25 AM Susan Eisenhower: Barack is the best choice!
Category: Election 08, News, News - Latest, Politics
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August 27, 2008 - Delivering a strong blow against the validity of the Mccain campaign today; Life-long republican Susan Eisenhower, grand daughter of Dwight D. Eisenhower announce her departure from the republican party to support and endorse Democratic Nominee, Barack Obama for President of the United States.
Added to Feed: Thursday September 04, 2008 04:07:15 AM Video: 80,000 angry men: Is the US surge collapsing?
Category: News - International News, Politics, News, Election 08
Updated from March 2008: Iraqis employed by the US to take on al-Qaeda for the surge threatening to strike...
Added to Feed: Wednesday July 23, 2008 03:39:34 PM Video: Sadr City Walls...
Category: News - International News, Politics, News, Election 08
Updated from April 2008 - Aijaz Ahmad: Walls are meant to partition Sadr City's and other Iraqi populations is a means of population control ahead of upcoming elections in Iraq and the U.S. Does this smack of anything familiar?
Added to Feed: Wednesday July 23, 2008 03:45:12 PM Video: Hundreds being killed by US strikes in Sadr City
Category: News - International News, Politics, News, Election 08
New surge strategy to fight resistance--Wall-in a section of the city and bomb it. Civillians and all...
Added to Feed: Wednesday July 23, 2008 03:46:34 PM Video: Huffington breaks down the media. . .
Category: News - Latest, Politics, News, Election 08
Arianna Huffington on her book Right is Wrong , and reveals why mainstream corporate media such as CNN and MSNBC lack validity in the quality of their reporting and public dialogue...
Added to Feed: Wednesday July 23, 2008 03:47:33 PM Video: Who is the real John McCain?
Category: Politics, Politics, Election 08, News
Arianna Huffington: In 2000 McCain wouldn't vote for Bush, now he has sacrificed all his principles to win an election...
Added to Feed: Wednesday July 23, 2008 03:52:23 PM Welcome Message
Category: News - Latest
Welcome to the new DEMRI web site. Our goal is to support the growth, development, and advancement of Black Communities through the provision of knowledge, information, unbiased news and open access to Information and Communications Technology (ICT) resources.
Added to Feed: Wednesday July 23, 2008 03:38:45 PM Republicans Interrupt Senate Hearings...
Category: Society: African American Interests, Politics, Election 08
ANP: Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Interrogation Techniques suspended two days in a row as Republicans invoke two- hour rule: June 10, 2008 Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Interrogation Techniques and June 11, 2008; Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Regulation:
American News Project: On two consecutive days, hearings conducted by the Senate Judiciary Committee were suspended when Republicans invoked...
Added to Feed: Tuesday June 17, 2008 12:37:19 AM The Return of the Imperial Presidency. . .
Category: Society: African American Interests, Politics, Election 08
Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy
Video: Charlie Savage is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter from the Boston Globe. He has written extensively about President Bush's signing statements and other White House efforts to expand executive branch secrecy and unchecked power. Warrantless wiretapping is one part of this story. Savage has just published a...
Added to Feed: Tuesday June 17, 2008 12:38:46 AM Indictment Launched Against Bush Administration
Category: Society: African American Interests, Politics, Election 08
Indictment Launched Against Bush Administration In The Court of Public Opinion
It began formally on June 9, 2008 when Dennis Kucinich gave official notice of his intention to introduce 35 articles of impeachment against George W. Bush to the U.S. House of Representatives. On June 10, 2008, as Congressman Robert Wexler joined Kucinich as co-sponsor of the resolution, Kucinich officially introduced...
Added to Feed: Tuesday June 17, 2008 12:40:53 AM New and Useful WebTechnologies
Category: Society: African American Interests, Education, Texhnology: Information
New Version (1.04) Now Available! - 5 Stars! for this New Web Tool for Educators and Novices wishing to build Learning Assets. About this significant news...
Added to Feed: Tuesday June 17, 2008 12:43:13 AM Will Cheney, Bush and McCain Get Their War? - Video
Category: Society: African American Interests, News, Politics
Bio: Gareth Porter is a historian and investigative journalist on US foreign and military policy analyst. He writes regularly for Inter Press Service on US policy towards Iraq and Iran. Author of four books, the latest of which is Perils of Dominance: Imbalance of Power and the Road to War in Vietnam.
The RNN's Paul Jay talks to Gareth Porter about...
Added to Feed: Tuesday June 17, 2008 12:45:57 AM What Net Neutrality Means
Category: Education: College / University, Education
What Net Neutrality Means, and Why ItÂ’s Necessary
It
looks as if weÂ’re about to go another round with yet another idiot
taking on net neutrality. Much of the debate will be triggered by an anti-net neutrality screed by Andy Kessler
thatÂ’s running as an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal. This article
highlights the illogicality of the anti-net neutrality folks,
with crackpot assertions and...
Added to Feed: Wednesday July 23, 2008 03:53:42 PM We Should Support Net Neutrality - Video
Category: Education: College / University, Education:Higher Education
Net Neutrality is the initiative to keep the internet free of regulation by government and control by major media corporations who wish to establish their own fast lane on the web. The results of this fast lane would create yet another corporate monopoly where the common internet user and small businesses receive second class, bottom tier service and broadband...
Added to Feed: Wednesday July 23, 2008 03:54:39 PM Be a Community Builder!
Category: Uncategorized
The Being a Community Builder topic provides practical resources, case studies and related reading. We will look at what community building involves and why its important to encourage and support community participation.
Added to Feed: Tuesday June 17, 2008 12:32:29 AM Recent Funerals
Category: News - Jena 6 Updates, Society: African American Interests, News, American Society
Last week in Detroit, the NAACP held a mock funeral for the N-word. But a
chilling case in Louisiana shows us how far we have to go to bury racism. This
story begins in the small, central Louisiana town of Jena. Last September, a
black high school student requested the school's permission to sit beneath a
broad, leafy tree in the hot schoolyard. Until...
Added to Feed: Monday August 27, 2007 08:29:07 PM Movement for freedom of choice on wireless service providers gains momentum,
Category: News - Black Business On The Web, Technology: Telecommunications, Technology:News, Telecommunications News
It's time for a change in the way mobile service providers lock us into contracts and only certain devices! The slick ads for Apple's revolutionary new iPhone promise to put the Internet in your
pocket. But the only way to get one of these gadgets is to sign on with
AT T -- which limits what you can...
Added to Feed: Monday August 27, 2007 08:23:37 PM Quote from our Director
Category: About Us - About Us, Society: African American Interests, Education:Higher Education, Culture: African American
All things enduring move through different progressive stages in a
process. This process has four (4) phases: Development, Establishment,
Maintenance and Refinement.
Maximum Cultural Development warrants that: We must be producers of culture, not passive consumers of it. Cultural development must be intentional and proactive, focused on
clear and valid goals with a concrete vision of how to attain them. We
are...
Added to Feed: Thursday June 28, 2007 03:23:19 PM Before You Enlist Into the U.S. Military - Video
Category: Books and Other Media - Film, Video and DVD, Society: African American Interests, Education, Psa
New Reality Pilot: Around the country, thousands of our youth voluntarily enlist into the military each month for various reasons. This informative video brings to the forefront the realities of joining the U.S. Military. Anyone with children considering, or family considering the military should view this enlightening video...
Added to Feed: Thursday June 28, 2007 03:09:05 PM Black Churches Urged to Denounce Gangsta Rap
Category: Culture: African American, Society: African American Interests, Arts & Entertainment:Entertainment
An influential pastor from Atlanta tells his peers from around the country that some music is having a negative effect on our young people, at the third annual African American Pastors Conference that concluded Thursday night with a worship service at West Angeles Church of God in Christ.
By: K. Connie Kang, Times Staff Writer
Added to Feed: Thursday June 28, 2007 03:13:22 PM Heads Up for Black Webmasters About RSS
Category: News - Black Business On The Web, Society: African American Interests, Business, Education
Really Simple Syndication (RSS) is quickly becoming an obsession with many knowledgeable webmasters. Its just happening everywhere and black webmasters must adjust their strategies accordingly. Learn more about this powerful trend...
Added to Feed: Thursday June 28, 2007 03:15:45 PM Detecting Media Bias and Propaganda
Category: News - Latest, Society: African American Interests, Education:Higher Education, Black Community Resources
DEMRI.org Promotes Conscious Citizenship: The logic behind bias and propaganda in the news media is simple and it is the same the world over. Each society and culture has a unique world view. This colors what they see and how they see it. News media in the cultures of the world reflect the world view of the culture they write...
Added to Feed: Thursday June 28, 2007 03:17:12 PM Keeping the Flame!
Category: DEMRIBlog - Blogs, Society: African American Interests, Family, Black Community Resources
I just left another forum that I visit now and then. I ran across this entry (quoted) below:
Added to Feed: Thursday June 28, 2007 03:18:57 PM Awareness
Category: News - Latest, Society: African American Interests, Education, Culture: African American
All things enduring move through (4) progressive phases... These four (4) phases are: development, establishment, maintenance, and refinement...
Added to Feed: Thursday June 28, 2007 03:05:18 PM An Invitation from DEMRI.org
Category: News - Latest, Society: African American Interests, Education:Higher Education, Black Community Resources
New online resources supporting the Black community: Our goal is to support the growth, development, and advancement of Black Communities through the provision of knowledge, information and open access to Information and Communications Technology (ICT) resources.
Added to Feed: Thursday June 28, 2007 03:22:13 PM Case Study Guidelines
Category: Publishing - Case Study Guidelines
In order to facilitate submission and publishing of Case Studies to the DEMRI site, we have developed this guide which will prove helpful when writing and submitting your case studies.
Added to Feed: Thursday June 28, 2007 02:49:32 PM Case Studies
Category: Community Development - Community Builders
Case Studies on Community Building and Development:
Added to Feed: Thursday June 28, 2007 02:49:32 PM Linking with Others
Category: Community Development - Community Builders
Linking with others for community development
Added to Feed: Thursday June 28, 2007 02:49:32 PM Getting Organized
Category: Community Development - Community Builders
Getting Organised for community growth and development...
Added to Feed: Thursday June 28, 2007 02:49:32 PM Awareness
Category: Education, Society: African American Interests, Education:Higher Education, Culture: African American
DEMRI.org Director, Marcus Tremble, expounds on some of the organizations founding principles.
Added to Feed: Thursday June 28, 2007 03:03:02 PM Introducing DEMRI.org
Category: News - Latest, Society: African American Interests, Education, Black Community Resources
The Development Establishment Maintenance and Refinement Institute (DEMRI) is a publicly supported entity organized and operated for Educational, Scientific and Literary purposes. We support the African diaspora by providing open access to a wide array of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) resources to advance Education, Community and Cultural Development.Our goals and objectives have lead us to embrace ICT, as...
Added to Feed: Thursday June 28, 2007 02:54:32 PM DEMRI Educational Initiative
Category: Newsflashes - Newsflash, Society: African American Interests, Education:Higher Education
The last month has been an unprecedented growth period for the Development Establishment Maintenance and Refinement Institute (DEMRI), with its release of three (3) major web-based assets, including the DEMRI Learning Gateway.
Added to Feed: Sunday May 21, 2006 05:37:17 PM DEMRI Announces an Open Call
Category: Society: African American Interests, Black Community Resources, Education, Culture: African American
The DEMRI recently announced an Open Call to its international demographic, the African diaspora. As an open knowledge sharing and collaborative development environment, some critics say the site is on the verge of massive expansion through its use of a user-driven content model.
Added to Feed: Thursday June 28, 2007 02:50:32 PM Creating Stronger Communities
Category: Community Development - Community Builders
Information about the upcoming series on 'Creating Stronger Communities' at the DEMRI Learning Gateway.
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