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The Progressive's Guide to Mother's Day

Mother's Day is just around the corner. Instead of the usual flowers and brunch, why not try something new this year? You don't have to be a mother, or even have a mother, to enjoy all of the Mother's Day events and offerings from some of the many organizations in the DIA community. Here are a few Mother's Day campaigns to check out: Mothers Acting Up: For a $25 donation, Mothers Acting Up will send a Mother's Day Card to the all the mothers in your life. Click here to send your cards!  

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11:05 AM May 09, 2007 - 4 comments permalink


How This Blog Is Built

Everyone wonders how we maintain a commanding presence among Technorati's top half-million blogs. When you've got it, you've got it. But you can at least feel like you're dope like us by cribbing from our blog toolkit. I. Drupal, of course, is the content management system for the entire DIA site, and our blogging tool as well -- yes, even though we have a blog tool of our own. Drupal is the base; everything else is superstructure.  

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11:09 AM May 07, 2007 - 4 comments permalink


Be a DIA Guru

Have you met Chelsea? She writes a monthly column, Be a DIA Guru. This month, she's looking at donation reports in Salsa. Collect them all! Templates Merge fields Listservs  

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10:16 AM May 04, 2007 - 4 comments permalink


The Condemned: Coming to a theater (or a courthouse) near you

*The following comes from DIA community member David Elliot of NCADP, guest blogging for us today. Soon this movie called The Condemned is going to be opening in theaters from coast to coast. The plot line is that some rich guy "buys" ten death row inmates from around the world. They are taken to an island where they have to fight each other, and the lone survivor gets to go free. The purpose of the sorry spectacle (is that a strong enough phrase?) is TV ratings. A lot of people in the abolition community are already talking about this movie, and the level of disgust (is that a strong enough word?) is palpable. Reading my email this morning, I see that an old colleague of mine, Sally Kohn, has blogged on this movie over at Huffington Post.  

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12:39 PM May 03, 2007 - 0 comments permalink


Online Strategy Guides-Now's Your Chance to Peruse

Right now Jason is probably sitting in coach, enjoying something like Night at the Museum while he sips a diet coke.
For us, the blog must go on. Today, I'll take you through a tour of things already written--namely, our strategy guides. We get requests often on how people are actually using the DIA tools to effectively make change in their communities. There's a ton of guides out there, and we jumped on that bandwagon with --hopefully-- a progressive bend on gettin' things done online.  

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06:40 AM May 02, 2007 - 0 comments permalink


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