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• FREEDOM: TO BE FREE, TO BE DUMB?!?!

  Published: June 21, 2007, 6:45 am

  Tags: Bizarre, Democracy, Freedom, Freedom Of Speech, Sabina England, Weird

  NOTE: PLEASE DO NOT PROCEED TO READ THE ESSAY IF YOU ARE EASILY OFFENDED BY PROFANE LANGUAGE AND ABUSE OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE! FREEDOM: Be Free, Be Dumb! Or Not?      A Question Essay by Sabina England   When I was a li’l girl, I didn’t have no freedom to be free. I was kept on a leash whenever I wanna go

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• Lacking In Initiatives Dept.: Mike Gravel Wants You to Have to Vote Even More Often

  Published: July 30, 2007, 6:14 pm

  Tags: Democracy, Lacking In Initiatives Dept, Mike Gravel, Nonprofits

  What has crazy old man Mike Gravel been up to since he left the Senate 200 years ago? He founded a nonprofit called “The Democracy Foundation” whose aim is nothing less than the complete...

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• Cynthia McKinney stumps for Molison City Council Campaign

  Published: August 6, 2007, 9:30 am

  Tags: Grassroots Democracy, Green Party, Elections, Election

  Green Party Black Caucus Former Georgia Congresswoman Does Joint Fundraiser in Houston Former Georgia Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney attended a joint fundraiser hosted by the Alfred Molison for Houston City Council campaign. The event was hosted at the Houston Shrine of the Black Madonna, Friday evening, August 3rd, 2007 and raised contributions

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• Democrat/Republican…Flip a Coin

  Published: August 6, 2007, 8:06 am

  Tags: Grassroots Democracy, Presidential Race, Third Party, Third Parties, Green Party, Republican, Us Politics, Elections, Democrat, Election

  from Liberal Voice The worst part of our current economic condition is that the insurance industry, healthcare industry, the automotive industry, the oil and gas industry OWN our politicians. How do we correct this problem if the lawmakers themselves are the culprits, the co-conspirators, or at best inactive observers? The answer in the past has

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• Greens on parade: Great way to organize

  Published: August 5, 2007, 12:57 pm

  Tags: Grassroots Democracy, Third Party, Third Parties, Green Party, Anti War, Peace, War, Us Politics, Politics

  Wow! It was so much fun to watch this video. The Illinois Greens had a great presence in their local parade. And, if you watch it, you get to see crowds of people cheering for the Green Party! What a nice boost!

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• Why vote?

  Published: August 4, 2007, 11:07 am

  Tags: Ballot Issues, Grassroots Democracy, Progressive Politics, Third Party, Working Families Party, Third Parties, Long Island Politics, Green Party, Local, Politics, Election, Elections, Democrat, News

  you have no choice, like our democracy has sunk you need to do work BEFORE election day. If you are in Suffolk County, the time is now! Right now, you have to collect signatures and sign petitions, or you will have NO CHOICE for Suffolk County Executive. This is what Democracy looks like: People who realize that being a voter is not like being

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• Cynthia McKinney Confronts Corporate Media Malice in Court

  Published: August 8, 2007, 9:26 am

  Tags: Grassroots Democracy, Us Politics, Politics

  from Black Agenda Report by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The American judicial system is not the place to seek Black liberation or redress, but it can serve to put our grievances on the record. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, a corporate rag if there ever was one, has for many years defamed, libeled and maliciously harmed former Georgia

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• Some music, some poetry, some healing on 9-11, etc.

  Published: August 8, 2007, 6:06 pm

  Tags: Us Politics, President, Elections, Anti War, Grassroots Democracy, Election, George W Bush, Poetry, Rants, Muses, Peace, War, Music

  A powerful version of “Self Evident” by Ani DiFranco

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• Democracy Comes From Within, The War in Iraq

  Published: August 9, 2007, 5:22 am

  Tags: Democracy, Iraq, Persian Gulf War, Sadam, The Geminian, War, War On Terror

  I was a soldier during Desert Shield and Desert Storm, (The Persian Gulf War.) During that period, one country, to whom we supplied arms, invaded another. In this operation, the goal was to end the invasion. It was never to kill Sadam. When he surrendered, he was really just agreeing to cease his invasion and lay down arms. When he did this,

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• After I-35W bridge tragedy, Green Party calls for major public works effort

  Published: August 10, 2007, 3:57 pm

  Tags: Grassroots Democracy, Green Party, Us Politics

  Greens express sympathy for bridge collapse victims and the people of Minneapolis, call for a major investment in public works and safety Statement from Green Minneapolis City Council Member Cam Gordon (Ward 2) Green Party leaders expressed sympathy and support for the people of Minneapolis, especially the families of victims, in the aftermath

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• PLEASE attempt to adjust your radio...

  Published: June 21, 2007, 7:52 pm

  Tags: Democracy Now, Houston, Conservatives, Media

  and Juan every morning on Democracy Now! to great music programming on the weekends like The Lone Star Jukebox and The Bluegrass Zone to commentary on world events on The Monitor, the programming is diverse and well thought out. It's a refreshing alternative to the aural flamethrowers like Rush and BillO who dominate the AM airwaves.Lock it in

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• Courtiers of conventional wisdom

  Published: August 10, 2007, 8:30 am

  Tags: Journalism, Bias, Objective, Mcclatchy, Media, Democracy, Conventional Wisdom

  us from a robust and liberal democracy in 1978 to the threshhold of fascism today. Just as important and harder to reverse has been the transformation of journalism.Most journalists today are courtiers of the conventional wisdom. They think journalism happens at press conferences, and they're happy to write up what they hear as if it were news

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• Democrats who don't dirty their hands with politics

  Published: August 8, 2007, 3:37 pm

  Tags: Brooks, Propaganda, O Neill, Republican, Democrat, Politics, Democracy, Massachusetts, Duhbya, Carter

  Democracy requires more than one party or at least more than one faction. In Massachusetts, we've managed to do o.k. with schisms within the Democratic Party, even now that we have a Democratic governor for the first time in nearly two decades.Much of the South has two conservative parties. It's hard to see how that's better for democracy.In any

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• 1974

  Published: August 8, 2007, 12:22 pm

  Tags: Constitution, Authoritarian, Republican, Democrat, Nixon, Democracy

  tattered state of American democracy. But I am going to go upstairs and fly the flag in honor of a time not so long ago when the Constitution

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• Stuffed ballot boxes at Internet speed

  Published: August 6, 2007, 9:35 pm

  Tags: Voting, Infoworld, Democracy, Diebold

  Now Diebold voting machines are vulnerable to viruses. If something really important were involved, say, dollars instead of the mere lifeblood of self-government, I'm sure Diebold would get something, anything right.Let's just leave our democracy lying out in plain sight and hope no one steals an election. Oh, crap, too late.

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