{"id":1405,"date":"2008-05-02T11:52:29","date_gmt":"2008-05-02T16:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/2008\/05\/02\/technology-and-activism\/"},"modified":"2008-05-02T11:52:29","modified_gmt":"2008-05-02T16:52:29","slug":"technology-and-activism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/2008\/05\/02\/technology-and-activism\/","title":{"rendered":"technology and activism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are two new instances of technology (both via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2008\/03\/17\/americas-new-subprim.html\">boingboing<\/a>) that seem to really aid social justice movements.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.causecaller.com\/images\/causecallerlogo.png\" height=\"104\" width=\"406\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.causecaller.com\/\">Cause Caller<\/a> is a VOIP tool that lets you define a cause and contacts related to that cause (for instance, congressional representatives on a panel investigating a particular issue).\u00c2\u00a0 Users can then enter their phone number and the application will call them back and connect them with the different contacts.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.breakthrough.tv\/upload\/banner\/open_plain.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.icedgame.com\/\">ICED<\/a> (I Can End Deportation) is a video game made by the human rights group <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breakthrough.tv\">Breakthrough<\/a> that, according to Breakthrough&#8217;s website:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>puts you in the shoes of an immigrant to illustrate how unfair immigration laws deny due process and violate human rights. These laws affect all immigrants: legal residents, those fleeing persecution, students and undocumented people.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are two new instances of technology (both via boingboing) that seem to really aid social justice movements. Cause Caller is a VOIP tool that lets you define a cause and contacts related to that cause (for instance, congressional representatives on a panel investigating a particular issue).\u00c2\u00a0 Users can then enter their phone number and&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/2008\/05\/02\/technology-and-activism\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">technology and activism<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[51,525,546,81,21292,524,523],"class_list":["post-1405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-activism","tag-games","tag-graffiti","tag-immigration","tag-technology","tag-tools","tag-voip","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wnIz-mF","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}