In the US: join a human chain protest on Tuesday against disguised cuts in Social Security.

Facebook shut down some pages about protests in Turkey because they had "fake profiles". No surprise that people protesting in Turkey may not want to tell the Turkish state who they are.

This shows why any communication system that requires users to identify themselves is inadequate for democracy. That means Facebook and Google+ are no good. (Google+ allows pseudonyms, but since Google has an office in Turkey, Google would have to tell Turkey the user's real name.)

US citizens: call on Obama to pardon Snowden.

The surveillance state, faced with inevitable unrest because of the increasing poverty it encourages combined with the effects of global heating, will almost inevitably become a terror state.

A Sustainable Energy Future is Within Our Grasp.

However, governments that kowtow to fossil fuel interests won't grasp it.