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| | portland imc - 2005.05.16 - Goodbye democracy |
 | | For a bioregional perspective on the Electoral College, the Electoral College is useful. | | | Plus, for a bioregional perspective, the Electoral College is useful. | | | It's ironic how the 45 minority members of the Senate actually represent more voters, as shown in election results, than the 55 members of the Republican so-called "majority". |
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http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2005/05/317517.shtml
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| | 6-Democracies |
| | In delegative democracy, delegates are selected and expected to act on the wishes of the constituency. | | | To address any concerns about the outcome of this new system during the four year trial period, the Legislative and Executive Branches will have veto power over Principative Branch decisions, provided that the veto is authorized by a two-thirds majority vote of both the House and Senate and a formal veto from the President. | | | Today the only decision-making government positions regularly filled this way are court juries; however, sortition has been used to select the holders of various political and administrative offices, sometimes combined with an element of qualification or election. |
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http://www.civilocracy.org/page8.html
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| | Bioregional democracy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | This is the simplest form of bioregional democracy—cooperation to defend a single watershed. | | | This brings ecological self-interest in sync with state politics instead of out of sync with it. | | | This movement is variously called bioregional democracy, watershed cooperation, or bioregional representation, or one of various other similar names—all of which denote democratic control of a natural commons and local jurisdictional dominance in any economic developmental path decisions—while not removing more generalized civil rights protections of a larger national state. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioregional_democracy
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| | Toward A Bioregional State: The Book : CafePress.com |
| | Publius was the pen name adopted by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison, as they made their arguments in popular newspapers for their popularizing of the United States Constitution, in the 1780s. | | | Toward a Bioregional State Petition: Constitution of Sustainability | | | Toward A Bioregional State is his novel approach to developmentalism and to sustainability. |
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http://www.cafepress.com/biostate
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| | Dahbud Mensch - Humor As An Art Key or Is SANITY the PLAYGROUND of the unIMAGINATIVE - dahbudmainmain.html |
| | While not receiving a majority of the popular vote and selected by the Supreme Court rather than elected, we nevertheless have ended up with a sociopath as President surrounded by religious fanatics who actively seek war and others who seek to destroy our democracy and impose authoritarian values. | | | From the heart of the United States, we extend a profound apology to the rest of the world for the serious failure of our political system. | | | And so they did, convincing the American people and Congress that an attack was justified. |
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http://www.flyingsnail.com/Dahbud/dahbudmain.html
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| | Wikinfo Recall |
| | The Canadian province of British Columbia has representative recall. | | | referendum, electoral reform, bioregional democracy, that increase political accountability, and increase the role of citizens. | | | In a democracy, representative recall is a procedure by which constituents can remove a representative from office before his or her term is completed. |
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http://www.wikinfo.org/wiki.php?title=Recall
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| | Civics - Encyclopedia of Political Information |
| | This involves explicitly comparing voting systems, wealth distribution and the decentralization of political and legal power, control of legal systems and adoption of legal codes, and even political privacy - all seen as important to avoid a dystopic carceral state or a lapse into some undesirable state of totalitarianism or theocracy. | | | deliberative democracy - decisions made by locally-grouped citizens obligated to participate in consensus decision making process, e.g. | | | representative democracy - a political class of elected representatives is trusted to carry out duties for the electors - these may be responsible to any group in society, or none, once elected, e.g. |
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http://www.politicalinformation.net/encyclopedia/Civics.htm
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| | Participatory democracy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Participatory politics or Parpolity is a long-range political theory that also incorporates many of the above and strives to create a political system that will allow people to participate in politics, as much as possible in a face-to-face manner. | | | This page was last modified 11:30, 24 December 2005. | | | Participatory democracy is a broadly inclusive term for many kinds of consultative decision making in a democracy. |
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| | Grassroots democracy - Art History Online Reference and Guide |
| | Historically, the term 'grassroots democracy' originated in the US New England states, to describe respect for town meetings and local consensus decisions. | | | Grassroots democracy is a guiding principle of green parties worldwide (it was one of the Four Pillars of the Green Party first formulated in Europe which eventually spread to the worldwide 'big G' Green parties). | | | In daily political practice the term usually refers to frequent town meetings, consensus policy development, consensus decision making, and electoral reform, all of which is intended to make politicians more responsible to their constituents, at least, and (in the more literal Green conception of the idea) to living things and local habitats in general. |
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http://www.arthistoryclub.com/art_history/Grassroots
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| | Natural Life Magazine #56 - Grassroots Politics - Proportional Representation |
| | The PR system is used in most democracies, and is the reason new political movements are represented in many European legislatures. | | | Coalition governments also mean that elected officials have to cooperate with each other in order to run the nation, eliminating some of the partisan game playing and adversarial name calling that is now prevalent in politics. | | | Yet the results of elections show that the Canadian form of democracy does not accurately reflect the preference of voters. |
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| | Article about "Form of government" in the English Wikipedia on 24-Apr-2004 |
| | Islam as a political movement is also often included on a list of movements that have deep implications for the form of government, but are in practice so differently applied that it makes little sense to treat them as one of the more abstractly defined movements above. | | | Long experience with those movements in power, and the strong ties of each ideology to governmental control and policy have won them some recognition as forms of government in themselves. | | | Bioregional democracy is likewise basic to green politics. |
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http://fixedreference.org/en/20040424/wikipedia/Form_of_government
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| | Eco-anarchism - Encyclopedia of Political Information |
| | This is typical of eco-anarchist literature, in which such concepts as Great Ape personhood and bioregional democracy are often taken for granted, as pre-requisites to a more peaceful society. | | | Eco-anarchism argues that small eco-villages (of no more than a few hundred people) are the correct scale of human living, and that infrastructure and political systems should be re-organized to ensure that these are created. | | | It is the dedication to these ideals that distinguish it from the more general 'big-G' Green anarchism which sees a continuing role for global institutions and global definitions of fairness and safety, or at least dialogue towards those. |
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http://www.politicalinformation.net/encyclopedia/Eco-anarchism.htm
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| | Green politics |
| | bioregional democracy reflecting ecological boundaries in politics directly a scale which tends to be smaller existing nation-states and thus is a de facto secession movement favored more by left than in modern times although historically the right was often defined by ethnic and tribal | | | an end to the War on Terrorism and the curtailment of civil rights - focusing instead on growing deliberative democracy in war-torn regions and the construction a civil society with an increased role for women this position is seen by most as extreme left-wing position and perhaps as naive. | | | Because it lacks clear identification with powerful groups and tends to appeal more to world-view or mindset Green politics tends to grow slowly also not to easily lose ground to views or parties over time. |
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http://www.freeglossary.com/Green_ideology
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| | Liberty And Justice For All » Blog Archive » Form of government |
| | This entry was posted on Thursday, July 7th, 2005 at 12:33 pm and is filed under Uncategorized. | | | The basic principles of many other popular movements have deep implications for the form of government those movements support and would introduce if they came to power. | | | For example, bioregional democracy is a pillar of green politics. |
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http://libertyandjusticeforall.ws/2005/07/07/form-of-government
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| | OpenPolitics.ca : participatory democracy |
| | Participatory democracy is a broadly inclusive term for many kinds of consultative decision making in a democracy. | | | The term grassroots democracy is sometimes employed to mean a specifically local decision making? | | | Participatory democracy usually functions on the opt-in principle. |
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http://openpolitics.ca/tiki-index.php?page=participatory+democracy
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| | Build local, bioregional social saftey nets in lieu of massive government social programs which will be unable to function in a post-peak economic world. | | | Link-up with other organizations, communities, and people with similar interests, to build a cohesive and informed whole capable of powerful political and social action as federal government, corporations, and international organizations become increasingly weakened in a post-peak world. | | | Become the media," we will not directly battle the political and economic institutions of state and corporation, we will merely make them obsolete by taking back the functions of deicision making back to the level of human scale, to bioregional localities. |
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| | Political science |
| | One thing that complicates the study of political science is that political scientists are themselves part of the political process, since their teachings often provide the frameworks within which other commentators, such as journalists, pressure-groups, politicians and the electorate select options. | | | International Relations has become more independent of Political Science over time, in methodology and the scholars themselves. | | | Some universities have developed programs specifically in conflict resolution and direct democracy, which has come to be seen as relevant domestically as well as internationally. |
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| | burma.indymedia.org Signature campaign to oppose the Salween Dam |
| | Bioregional democracy ("democratic control of a natural commons and local jurisdictional dominance in any economic developmental path decisions") is a theory that is definitely worth considering, debating, expanding upon and putting into practice. | | | It's principals may hold some promise against arbitrary governance that doesn't take into consideration the needs of those trapped behind separate political boundaries and yet who share a common and vital natural source of life. | | | Watersheds should properly be managed with a full consensus of those living within the particular watershed in question, who if they are wise will demand that such vital sources of common human livelihood and health are sustainability maintained into perpetuity. |
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http://burma.indymedia.org/my/2005/06/194.shtml
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| | Corporations & Democracy |
| | He suggested that "Democracy was created to prevent corporate tyranny in a singular sense. | | | Adam Smith, he informed us, the so called "father" of capitalism, warned that for capitalism to work, each individual would need to be ethically self-regulating in the business arena. | | | Dave Hensen suggested another localized step we can take: create a community bank and circulate local currency to keep resources from leaving our communities. |
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| | SciPeeps.com..."Come Dive Into Science with Us" |
| | This strongly overlaps the field of linguistic anthropology, which is the branch of anthropology that studies of humans through the languages that they use. | | | Whatever one calls it, this field has had a major impact in the studies of visual perception (especially colour) and bioregional democracy, both of which are concerned with distinctions that are made in languages about perceptions of the surroundings. | | | Human languages are usually referred to as natural languages, and the science studying them is linguistics. |
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| | OpenPolitics.ca : list of policy terms |
| | participatory democracy - also on list of process terms and one of the Six Principles | | | deliberative democracy - also on list of process terms |
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http://openpolitics.ca/list+of+policy+terms
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| | iBrattleboro - Brattleboro community news and discussion for Brattleboro, VT |
| | He will be giving a talk entitled The Bioregional Basis Of Urban Sustainability at the Brattleboro Savings and Loan, 221 Main St. (across from the library). | | | Berg is the author of "Discovering Your Life-Place" and " A Green City Program". | | | The Mountain Brook Center for Sustainable Living, a Guilford not-for-profit, will be bringing Peter Berg, Director of The Planet Drum Foundation, to Brattleboro on Sunday, October 9th at 2pm. |
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http://www.ibrattleboro.com/calendar_event.php?eid=20050929130640698
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| | bioregional democracy |
| | Bioregional democracy - ArtPolitic Encyclopedia of Politics : Information Portal |
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