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| | The History of CORE |
 | | The Freedom Summer campaign was organized by a coalition called the Mississippi Council of Federated Organizations, which was led by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), and included the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). | | | Freedom Summer was a highly publicized campaign in the Deep South to register blacks to vote during the summer of 1964. | | | Freedom School buildings and the volunteers' homes were frequent targets; 37 black churches and 30 black homes and businesses were firebombed or burned during that summer, and the cases often went unsolved. |
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http://www.core-online.org/history/freedom_summer.htm
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| | The Freedom Charter and the United Nations |
| | The origin of the Freedom Charter may be traced to the Campaign of Defiance against Unjust Laws - a non-violent passive resistance campaign - launched by the African National Congress and the South African Indian Congress on June 26, 1952. | | | The Charter became a powerful force in uniting the people of all racial origins in a common struggle for the elimination of apartheid and the establishment of a non-racial democratic state. | | | But above all, 26 June was chosen as "South Africa Freedom Day" as it commemorates the historic adoption, on 26 June 1955, of the Freedom Charter by the Congress of the People of South Africa, a multi-racial conference of the opponents of apartheid and racial discrimination. |
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http://www.anc.org.za/un/reddy/fc-un.html
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| | Campaign Web Review (2.0) |
| | My friend and fellow blogger, Mike Krempasky, will testify before a Congressional Committee today to urge the enactment of the Online Freedom of Speech Act, legislation that would exempt communications over the Internet from regulation under campaign finance laws. | | | In the latest evidence of the permanent campaign, a 26-year-old Web wizard has opened a 2008 Presidential Wire that tracks news stories and blog entries for both parties' likely candidates -- 10,641 of them since May 27, 2005. | | | John Sweeney, President of the AFL-CIO, held a briefing today to outline the union's plans to push the Fair Share Health Care campaign in state legislatures around the country. |
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http://www.campaignwebreview.com
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| | Democratic party -> The New Freedom and New Deal on Encyclopedia.com 2002 |
| | The economic depression that began in 1929 helped to sweep the Democrats and Franklin Delano Roosevelt into office in 1932, and with his New Deal the Democrats were again identified as the party of reform. | | | Under Wilson's progressive policy, known as the New Freedom, some fruitful reform was enacted, but the idealism he had inspired waned after World War I. Democratic presidential candidates were defeated in the next three elections, but in 1928 urban Democrats made key inroads into important urban voting blocs. | | | A listless party: the RNC inherited the Bush campaign's list of donors and volunteers, but on the Democratic side, the Kerry list belongs to... |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/section/Democrat_TheNewFreedomandNewDeal.asp
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| | Nelson Mandela - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | As president of the ANC (July 1991 â December 1997) he ran a largely ceremonial and uncompetitive campaign against De Klerk for the new office of President of South Africa. | | | After the 1948 election victory of the Afrikaner -dominated National Party with its apartheid policy of racial segregation, Mandela was prominent in the ANC's 1952 Defiance Campaign and the 1955 Congress of the People, whose adoption of the Freedom Charter provided the fundamental program of the anti-apartheid cause. | | | On 23 July 2004, the city of Johannesburg bestowed its highest honour on Mandela by granting him the freedom of the city at a ceremony in Orlando, Soweto. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Mandela
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| | Campaign Finance "Reform": The Good, The Bad and the Unconstitutional |
| | But even if there were universal agreement regarding specific problems with current campaign finance laws, Congress must be careful that its reforms are constitutional and that its proposed "cure" is not worse than the "disease." Any law that attempts to limit citizens' freedom of speech and association further is not worth the price. | | | In its campaign finance decisions, the Supreme Court repeatedly has held that monetary contributions to candidates and political organizations are accorded First Amendment protections because they directly implicate the freedom of speech and association. | | | What some would-be reformers see as a terrible circumvention of the current campaign finance laws is really the natural but inefficient diversion of the public's desire to have a say in who their elected leaders are and what policies those leaders will pursue. |
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| | Brady Campaign Sues; 'New Gun Part Is Same As New Gun' -- 03/19/2004 |
| | The Brady Campaign -- officially known as The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence united with the Million Mom March -- announced Thursday that it is suing Attorney General Ashcroft and the Justice Department's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, based in part on documents obtained from ATF through the Freedom of Information Act. | | | In its lawsuit, the Brady Campaign seeks a court order prohibiting the government from continuing to allow the manufacture of new receivers for semiautomatic assault weapons. | | | According to a Brady Campaign press release, documents obtained through FOIA include private correspondence between ATF and Bushmaster Firearms of Windham, Maine, in which the ATF repeatedly gave Bushmaster permission to manufacture new "receivers" to replace damaged receivers for semiautomatic guns that were legally owned before 1994, when the "assault weapons" ban went into effect. |
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http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=\Culture\archive\200403\CUL20040319c.html
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| | U.S. Newswire : Releases : "Brady Campaign Seeks Court Order to Stop..." |
| | The lawsuit is supported by documents obtained from ATF by the Brady Campaign under the Freedom of Information Act showing that ATF, at least since 1997, has been permitting gun makers to make new receivers. | | | In 1994, Congress banned the manufacture of assault weapons for civilian use, a statute that will expire in September of this year, unless Congress acts to renew it. | | | The Brady Campaign today requested that an injunction be issued that would remain in effect until the litigation is finally resolved. |
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http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=118-04072004
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| | Freedom in the World 2000 - 2001 |
| | Dzhalalov, a public supporter of Karimov’s policies, was quoted during the campaign as stating that he himself intended to vote for Karimov. | | | Karimov’s former party, the PDP, from which he resigned in 1996, nominated its first secretary Dzhalalov with Karimov’s consent, while Karimov ran as a candidate of the recently established Fidokorlar party. | | | In a parallel vote, Islam Karimov, former Communist Party leader and chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), the successor to the Communist Party, was elected president with a reported 88 percent of the vote. |
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| | The Case for Leonard Peltier for President: Justice and Freedom :: Frontlines :: Newspaper of the Left |
| | Documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act also confirmed that Peltier was a target of the FBI's notorious Counter Intelligence Program (Cointelpro) which targeted AIM members as well as anti-war activists and Black Panthers. | | | Peltier's nomination by the Peace and Freedom Party was hoped to shine new light on his case and his campaign for Executive Clemency-a presidential pardon. | | | The Case for Leonard Peltier for President: Justice and Freedom :: Frontlines :: Newspaper of the Left |
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| | Young Americans for Freedom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Young Americans for Freedom's indirect influence is felt through the great numbers of conservative political figures who began their careers as members of YAF in college. | | | Young Americans for Freedom (or YAF) is a conservative youth group based in the United States of America. | | | The majority of YAF members during this era supported Ronald Reagan's successful bid for Governor of California in 1966, as well as his unsuccessful bid for the Republican presidential nomination in 1968. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom
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| | 83 Wn.2d 728, YOUNG AMERICANS FOR FREEDOM, INC., et al., Respondents, v. SLADE GORTON et al., Appellants |
| | Respondent Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) is a Delaware corporation with affiliated membership groups located throughout the United States whose activities focus principally upon high school and college campuses. | | | The YAF also engages in campaigns which are designed to influence the legislature by urging that various members and constituents contact their elective representatives as a broad show of public support or dissatisfaction with pending or proposed legislation. | | | In instances where the YAF receives funds identified or earmarked for expenditure in a campaign which is directed at specific pending or proposed legislation, it is required to report the contributions in accordance with section 20(2) (c). |
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| | Peace and Freedom Party Campaign 2004 |
| | This is the campaign site for the California Peace and Freedom Party in the 2004 elections, which remains up after 2004 for historical purposes. | | | The Peace and Freedom Party candidates for public offices nominated in the March 2nd primary and at the July 31st-August 1st convention are: | | | Peace and Freedom decided not to take a position on this constitutional amendment, which was the governor's and legislature's replacement for Proposition 65. |
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| | Freedom of Information |
| | Briefing for the Lords Report Stage of the Freedom of Information Bill on 14th and 15th November explaining why the Campaign is deeply disappointed at the agreement reached between the Liberal Democrats and the government. | | | Following The Guardian's recent reports that implementation of the Freedom of Information Act may be significantly delayed, the Campaign has produced a briefing describing the damaging consequences of this. | | | This briefing was produced for a debate on Freedom of Information held in the House of Commons on 6 July 1998. |
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http://www.cfoi.org.uk/opengov.html
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| | Freedom Party of Ontario - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Freedom Party of Ontario adopted a new objective: to influence government through the election of Fp members of the Ontario provincial legislature "for the better protection in Ontario of every individual's rights of life, liberty and property". | | | [4] In the 1999 provincial election, Fromm donated the sum of $360.00 to the campaign of Freedom Party executive member Paul Blair. | | | The Freedom Party of Ontario is a provincial political party in Ontario, Canada that was founded on 1 January 1984 by Robert Metz and Marc Emery - then of London, Ontario - as a successor to the Unparty. |
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| | Subhas Chandra Bose, The Indian National Army, and The War of India's Liberation |
| | While there was a stalemate in the front and the offensive came to a halt, there were meetings and jubilations at Rangoon where Netaji collected money and donations in other forms for the conduct of his campaign. | | | The III, was proclaimed the organization to work for India's freedom; the Indian National Army was declared the military arm of the movement with Mohan Singh as the Commander-in-chief and Rashbehari Bose was elected president of the Council of Action. | | | The Provisional Government of Free India had five Ministers with Netaji as the Head of the State, Prime Minister and Minister for War and advisers representing the Indian communities in East Asia. |
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| | BBC Caribbean |
| | The 33-year-old Dominican leader said his party intends to run a clean campaign for the election which and said his party will be "focused on the issues" and he accused the opposition of "character assassination" on their radio talk show programmes. | | | Prime Minister Skerrit also said the DLP will support the Dominica Freedom Party, the government's coalition partner that is led by Tourism minister Charles Savarin. | | | Dominica Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit has announced that the country's general elections will take place on May 5. |
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| | Lesotho - History and Politics |
| | By mid-August South Africa’s deputy-president, Thabo Mbeki, had brokered a deal between the various Lesotho parties providing for the appointment of a commission of electoral experts from Botswana, South Africa and Zimbabwe, under the chairmanship of Pius Langa, deputy president of South Africa’s constitutional court to probe the poll results. | | | It sought to use the campaign to turn the dethronement of Moshoeshoe II into a major issue, presuming that the electorate was absorbed by the fate of the monarchy, and by implication, with shoring up the declining powers of the senior chiefs. | | | The Marematlou Party (later called the Marematlou Freedom Party -- MFP), formed in 1957, feared that commoners would succeed in dominating the legislature, and looked to the new Paramount, the Oxford-educated Constantine Bereng --who was to be proclaimed Moshoeshoe II in March 1960 -- to provide the nation with progressive, dynamic leadership. |
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| | The Left Party |
| | This can lead, and has lead, to a situation where opposing the EU is used as a political catchword in electoral campaigns (most recently in the campaign of one of the candidates of the year 2000 Finnish presidential election). | | | The FPÖ party program states also that because of the topography, density of the population and limited resources, Austria is not a country for immigration. | | | The party claims that impact on the employment of Austria is negative, and that the increased immigration due to the EU membership only worsens the situation. |
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| | BBC News UK UK unmoved by Haider step down |
| | The UK Government's position is being backed by both Portugal - which holds the Presidency of the EU - and Belgium, which has been one of the prime movers of the anti-Freedom Party campaign. | | | Mr Haider quit as leader of the Freedom Party on Monday night after a closed-door meeting of the group's national leadership at a Vienna hotel. | | | The UK will continue diplomatic sanctions against Austria, despite the decision by far-right Freedom Party leader Joerg Haider to step down. |
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| | IRI : Around The Globe |
| | The Movement for the Reconstruction of Poland (ROP) -- ROP was formed in early 1996 on the foundation of Jan Olszewskis campaign for the Presidency. | | | Led by ex-Finance Minister Leszek Balcerowicz, the Freedom Union has seen its support slowly erode as the economic reforms that the West so uniformly praised it for are widely perceived by the Polish electorate to have wreaked havoc on the economy. | | | Enabling legislation to clarify hazy or controversial provisions of the newly passed Constitution will also have to be an early priority as will decisions on governmental decentralization and tax reform. |
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| | IRIN Focus on May election |
| | The Interim Political Authority (IPA) was established and, although originally meant to exist for up to 18 months by which time another election was to be held, four years on has become something of a parallel parliament. | | | In 1998 the ruling Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) won 60 percent of the vote, and walked away with 79 seats in the 80-member National Assembly. | | | The IEC could not give parties campaign funds until it knew who was standing in which constituency, this was one of the reasons why it had designated 5 April as the nomination cut-off date. |
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| | V24N2 |
| | The just completed Ontario election was a mixed experience for me. Due to the resignation of our campaign director for health reasons, I had to take on the dual role of party leader and campaign director. | | | Russell Township, for those of you unfamiliar with Eastern Ontario, with a population of 13,500 is located 30 minutes southeast of Ottawa and is comprised of the villages Russell, Embrun, Marionville and Limoges. | | | I joined the OLP in 2003 and served as his campaign manager in the recent election where he asked me if I would join the party executive. |
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| | Black Panthers |
| | The Panthers have established a coalition with the Peace and Freedom Party (an independent party now on the state ballot for upcoming elections) for the basic purpose of freeing Huey Newton, Black Panther Minister for Defense and a Peace and Freedom candidate for Congress. | | | Under her leadership the party successfully supported Lionel Wilson in his campaign to become the first black mayor of Oakland. | | | And what appealed to me about the Black Panther Party was that it took that position of self-determination and articulated it in a local community structure, had a program, had a platform and an implementation through the statement of how blacks should exercise community control over education, housing, business, military service. |
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| | Television commercials first made their appearance in Eisenhower’s 1952 campaign in the form of a series of "man in the street" questions that Eisenhower answered, all of which, both questions and answers, had been carefully staged in advance. | | | At the same time, the campaigns themselves were guilty of trivializing the political dialogue, producing vapid events, playing to fears and appealing to white racism. | | | It was the end of his campaign, Theodore White observed, "the end of a long year of planning and hope. |
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| | BBC NEWS World Africa Zulu party out of SA cabinet |
| | The mainly Zulu Inkatha Freedom Party has left South Africa's cabinet after its leader was sacked by President Thabo Mbeki. | | | Mangosuthu Buthelezi's 10-year stint as home affairs minister was ended after the IFP and Mr Mbeki's African National Congress fought a fierce campaign. | | | The violence was ended when the IFP agreed to serve in a national unity government after the end of apartheid. |
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| | PORA - civic campaign :: PORA - civic campaign :: PORA - civic campaign |
| | Unfortunately, we have to establish the facts of serious limitations of the freedom of Mass Media, the insufficient possibilities of access to Mass Media by the opposition representatives, defeating the freedom of expression the citizens political views and the pressure exerting on the opposition from the law machinery. | | | Civic Campaign PORA states that the former candidate for President of Ukraine Yanukovych starts a between-nations conflict and makes a threat to the social stability in Ukraine | | | I congratulate the young generation of citizens that during hardship stood up for freedom and democracy of their country. |
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| | South Africa - Atlapedia Online |
| | In Sept. 1989 Prime Minister de Klerk was elected President and began to establish social reforms so that South Africa's political isolation would be brought to an end and the imposed sanctions could be lifted. | | | On June 17, 1992 IFP supporters launched a raid on Boipatong township which resulted in the deaths of 43 people that resulted in ANC leader, Mandela announcing their withdrawal from the CODESA negotiations until the government ended its "campaign of terror". | | | The Freedom Alliance sought separate negotiations with the government and threatened disrupt agreements reached at the negotiation forum in June. |
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