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Nonprofit Online News Journal: December 2005 Edition

The December 2005 Edition of Nonprofit Online News Journal is now available. This issue has contributions from Jonathan Peizer, Rashmi Sinha, Lester Salamon & Alan Abramson, and Chris Richards. I've written the first in a series of articles about nonprofit knowledge management, entitled The Logic of Learning. The Quicksheet for this month's issue is a Decision Tree for First Time Nonprofit Blogging. Posted: 12/20/05; 3:27:18 PM #

ACLU: FBI Spy Files
	If you want to find out if the FBI has been spying on your organization, there is no single way to do so. But you can start by looking at the files that have been made public by the ACLU. They are highly redacted, but it's a start. Posted: 12/20/05; 11:55:57 AM #

F.B.I. Watched Activist Groups, New Files Show

We have clearly returned to the days of J. Edgar Hoover. In yet another sign that the government is taking broad steps to undermine the freedoms of our civil society, we learn in the New York Times (login required) this morning that the F.B.I. Watched Activist Groups such as the pacifist Catholic Workers Movement, Greenpeace, something called the Vegan Community Project, and others. In Mexico, many people are afraid to be seen as getting involved in activism of any kind, for fear of police attention. We're heading rapidly in the same direction. The most committed will, of course, become even more so. But if this goes on, we will see everyday citizens increasingly uncomfortable with civic involvement. I have already started to hear stories of people unsubscribing from nonprofit mailing lists and alluding to the risks of even receiving email with certain content or from certain groups. Posted: 12/20/05; 11:30:22 AM #