About culturekitchen

culturekitchen is a community blog committed to providing a platform to political activists and cultural creatives. Our mission is to explore socially libertarian and politically progressive solutions to the issues of everyday life in the United States by focusing on arts, culture, entertainment, life, media, politics, sex, and technology.

As fervent advocates of free speech, we welcome people from different political persuasions and countries to participate in our community. With that in mind, we want to remind lawyers and wannabes that this being a community blog, the following policies should be consider as potentially expansive and mutable agreements.

We will announce any changes to our policies, but please keep in mind, this is more of a public square than a magazine or newspaper. As the community grows and new challenges appear, the guidelines and agreements on the site will change as well.

Administration

Editors
Liza Sabater
Founder and Publisher

Lorraine Berry
Contributing Editor

Jeff Langstraat
Contributing Editor

Administration
Mark Napier
Technology Administrator

Lynn Siprelle
Systems Administrator

Melanie Lee
Administrative Assistant

You can contact each editor directly by clicking on their names and using the contact form to send them a private message.

We are always looking for volunteers and interns. For more information, please contact us at internships [at] culturekitchen [dot] com

Editorial Policy

1. Contributors, editors and guest bloggers get to the front page.

Most of the time posts are discussed prior to publishing. Sometimes they are copy edited. But we rarely edit for content unless the writer asks for it.

Blog posting is very different than essay or article writing. Blogs are ideas and discussions in process. Blog posts are not necessarily finished products and for that reason they may contain errors, glitches or inaccuracies.

It may be text but consider a blog closer to speaking than publishing.

2. Members' blog posts can be promoted to the front page either by :
• Popularity: it gets voted to the front page by the community.
• Editorial decision: it gets promoted to the front page by one of the editors
• Request: Ask and ye shall receive.
3. Under no circumstance will we delete a post from this blog.

We do not condone censorship although understand why a person would choose to censor themselves. But deleting content as a form of censorship is not part of our blogging practice.

I want to make this very clear. There will come a time when someone will cry defamation, libel or plagiarism. At such point we will deal with the situation accordingly. But there is something to be said about deleted content on the web. It is the ultimate desecration of our democratic freedoms. For that matter:

In the event a post becomes the focal point of a dispute; we will alter the post to reflect the dispute's outcome --but we will not delete the post, story, image, podcast, or article in question.

4. Each author holds copyrights to their content but agrees to license it under a Creative Commons license by publishing it here.

Membership

culturekitchen is a community blog aimed at cultural creatives who believe progressive activism starts in the kitchen, the bedroom, the home, the wallet. It is open for all who believe the decline of progressive and libertarian values have set us back as a democratic nation.

Anybody can join and participate at different levels in our community. Everybody is warned that the publishers and editors skew left of most liberals; yet actually encourage conservatives and right-wingers of all kind to debate us on the issues.

By registering to our site, every person and/or organization gets a basic Membership page featuring :

• Account Management:
  Handle account settings such as:
  • password resetting
  • picture/personal icon
  • private messaging
  • time zone
• Profile Page
  Update your personal and professional information.
• Email notifications
  Receive updates on new posts, forums or comments.
• Statistics
  Track hits and links to your posts.
• Userpoints
  Track the value of your activity throughout the site with userpoints.

• Internationalization
  Set the blogs interface in one of 5 languages:
  • English

  • French
  • German
  • Portuguese
  • Spanish
• Choice of blog themes
  Customize the look of your blog with one of our growing variety of themes.

Privacy policy

1. By joining culturekitchen you agree to be included on the sites confidential mailing list and agree to receive from time to time mass mailings from our publisher.
2. To build a better network and community, we encourage members to share their contact information; but we understand why would a member choose not to. For that matter we still provide a private messaging system with each account. Members and users of the site can send you emails without you having to make public your email address.
3. We will never sell, give away or make available to third parties your contact information without your consent; but we are not liable for any technological glitches or human misunderstandings that would make said information public.

Terms of Use

COMING SOON
We are trying to make them as human readable as possible.

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