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| | Social democracy - encyclopedia article about Social democracy. |
 | | Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania | | | Some social democrats support gay marriage, abortion and a liberal drug policy, while others are either non-committed or openly opposed to these policies. | | | Initially constituted through the British North America Act of 1867, it is governed as a parliamentary democracy with Queen Elizabeth II as head of state, represented by Governor General Adrienne Clarkson. |
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http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/social+democracy
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| | Democracy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Liberal democracy is, strictly speaking, a form of representative democracy where the political power of the government is moderated by a constitution which protects the rights and freedoms of individuals and minorities (also called constitutional liberalism). | | | An illiberal democracy is a political system where democratic elections exist, and the government is elected by a democratic majority, but is not restrained from encroaching on the liberty of individuals, or minorities. | | | One is to argue that the presence of a constitution in many democratic countries acts as a safeguard. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy
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| | Democracy (Harpers.org) |
| | The House of Representatives voted unanimously to ban the execution of pregnant women in response to remarks by Vice President Al Gore that a “the principle of a woman's right to choose governs in that case.” British Columbia asked the Canadian supreme court to affirm the validity of gay marriage. | | | Voters in the Kansas Republican primary selected pro-evolution candidates for the state school board, ensuring thereby that the state's current science standards, which for the last three years have required the teaching of creationism in the schools, will be overturned. | | | Ehud Barak, the Israeli prime minister who lost the recent election to Ariel Sharon, a known war criminal, resigned from politics, then agreed to be Sharon's defense minister in a government of national unity, then resigned from politics again. |
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http://www.harpers.org/Democracy.html
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| | Dick Taverne -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article |
| | Taverne lost his seat in parliament at the October 1974 general election, but he continued to remain active with the Democratic Labour Association until it folded after the (additional info and facts about 1979 general election) 1979 general election. | | | He resigned from parliament to force a by-election in March, 1973, in which he won the Lincoln seat as a Democratic Labour candidate. | | | [Categories: UK Social Democratic Party (SDP) politicians, Life peers, UK Liberal Democrat politicians, UK Labour Party politicians, British MPs, 1928 births] |
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http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/d/di/dick_taverne.htm
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| | PlaNetwork Journal -> Democracy Aid '04 Campaign |
| | Our next move was to claim the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, especially the first amendment, as campaign foci alongside the UN Millennium Development Goals and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. | | | Third, because of intelligent insights shared on the upcoming election campaign. | | | Friends at openDemocracy helped us distribute a press release through their channels, and a diplomat in New York passed on the news to Katrina vanden Heuvel. |
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http://journal.planetwork.net/article.php?lab=klein0704
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| | About us Personal Democracy Forum |
| | She also serves on the Board of Trustees for the Archer School for Girls, the advisory board of the Council on American Politics at George Washington University, and the board of the Reform Institute that works on campaign and election reform issues. | | | As a campaign manager, Trippi has run presidential, Senate, gubernatorial and mayoral campaigns. | | | He also co-authored The Internet and Campaigns: Interactively Empowering Citizens for the Chicago Policy Review and served as a Practitioner in Residence at the Institute for Politics Democracy and the Internet at George Washington University. |
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| | Democracy Now! Leaked GOP Memo: Privatizing Social Security Would Be "One of the Most Significant Conservative ... |
| | He's a Republican, former head of the Congressional Campaign Committee for the Republicans, estimates that there's about 30 to 40 Republican Congress people who really don't want to vote to cut benefits and privatize Social Security. | | | The union representing workers who work in the Social Security Administration, the American Federation of Government Employees, is protesting this. | | | The memo was written by Peter Wehner, an aide Karl Rove in the Office of Strategic Initiatives. |
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http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/14/1519241
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| | Blog for America |
| | Diana Spyridonidis was the Field Director for the Donna Frye for Mayor campaign in San Diego, California. | | | The documents show that Alito wrote back in 1985: "I am particularly proud of my contributions in recent cases in which the government argued that racial and ethnic quotas should not be allowed and that the Constitution does not protect a right to an abortion." | | | We also welcomed Walter Pincus and Dana Milbank back on A01 of the Washington Post, and Judith Miller left the New York Times in the fallout over the Plame affair. |
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http://www.blogforamerica.com
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| | ESR March 25, 2002 Defining social democracy |
| | Social Democrats in both political parties are transforming America from a system of limited government, empowered by the consent of the people, to a social democracy in which the government is the supreme arbiter and enforcer of the redistribution of wealth and the dictator of socially acceptable behavior. | | | On the other hand, programs that leave land use decisions to local elected officials, that leave education curriculum to local elected school boards, and, perhaps most importantly, leave the dollars earned by individuals in the individuals' pockets - advance the principles of freedom and reject the principles of social democracy. | | | Democratic socialism is a kinder, gentler, form of Marxism, which arose throughout Europe after World War II. |
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http://www.enterstageright.com/archive/articles/0302/0302socdem.htm
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| | Democracy for Virginia Campaign Training |
| | Daniel Chavez - Field Director, Phil Angelides for Governor Campaign (CA); Dan served as Western Desk Director for Dean for America in 2003-04, DNC National Voter Registration and New Citizen Director 2001-03; DNC Western States Campaign Director in 2000, coordinating 13 states that produced more electoral votes for V-P Al Gore than any other region. | | | Scott Goodstein - former Finance Director for VA State House Caucus, fundraiser for DLCC in NV, ME, NH, NJ, VT and VA, campaign manager for Backus for Senate 2000, Iowa state house and senate caucus director in 2002, executive director of Punk Voter in 2004. | | | Sandra Ramos - Managed and consulted on local, state, and congressional campaigns across California and the United States, including Nell Soto for State Assembly (CA), Brad Sherman for Congress (CA), No on 1A (Jail Bond Measure) (CO), Ramona Martinez for Congress (CO), and Mark Warner for Governor (VA). |
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http://www.democracyforvirginia.com/training
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| | Democracy in Action's P2004: The 2004 Presidential Campaign |
| | ....After three years or so of campaigning and $1.2 billion (>) spent, voters finally had their say. | | | The 55th Presidential Inauguration took place on January 20, 2005. | | | During the transition period, President Bush shook up his Cabinet and emphasized major priorities for his second term, including Social Security reform. |
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http://www.gwu.edu/~action/P2004.html
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| | During the 1930's, as the TLC supported labour parties floundered, the CCF was born. | | | The Committee was rewarded by scurrilous red-baiting from the only Federal NDP MP in Alberta; Ross Harvey and by Provincial NDP Leader Ray Martin. | | | Social democrats have abandoned any idea of democratic transformation of the state because becoming elected and governing is more important than changing the system. |
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http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/5202/CLCNDP2a1.htm
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| | The Fix Behind Fixing Social Security - Center for Media and Democracy |
| | In late February, deputy White House chief of staff Karl Rove, National Economics Council director Al Hubbard, and Barry Jackson, a special assistant to the president who is handling Social Security reform, met with administration-friendly lobbyists for a "rah-rah" cheerleading session on Social Security privatization. | | | PFA has also been airing television ads, one of which features footage of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. | | | Saving, however, was appointed by Bush as one of seven trustees for the U.S. Social Security Administration. |
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| | Campaign for Social Democracy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Such a split did occur in the early 1980s, when leading Labour moderates formed the Social Democratic Party. | | | The Campaign for Social Democracy was a minor political party operating in the United Kingdom in the 1970s. | | | He formed the Campaign for Social Democracy as an attempt to build a radical non-doctrinaire social democratic movement, and at the February 1974 general election they stood four candidates against leading Labour left-wingers (including Tony Benn). |
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| | The Democracy Project . Lesson Plans - All Aboard! PBS KIDS GO! GO! |
| | Knows how state and local government officials are chosen (i.e., by election or appointment) | | | What stops will present your party to the most voters, and by extension, the most electors in the electoral college? | | | See photographs of the train President George Bush rode during his 2000 campaign. |
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http://pbskids.org/democracy/educators/allaboard.html
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| | social democracy: Definition and Much More From Answers.com |
| | After the 2001 parliamentary elections it became the second largest party, with 29.1% of the votes and 52 seats. | | | After the election loss the Liberal Party 2001 elections, the party chairmanship went to Mogens Lykketoft, who held the post of Minister of Finance for several years under Poul Nyrup Rasmussen leadership. | | | The Social Democrats (Socialdemokraterne), is a Danish political party. |
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| | European Social Forum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | This rally called for an end to war, racism and privatisation and for a Europe of peace and social justice which the organisers claim had 70,000. | | | The European Social Forum (ESF) is an annual conference held by members of the alter-globalization movement (also known as the Global Justice Movement). | | | Between them there were the journalist Tiziano Terzani and the organizators of the "professors' movement" (a group of university professors that had organized a demonstration and groups of discussion against Berlusconi's policies). |
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| | May17 |
| | Social Democrats are not alone in seeking to break the mould that confines our civic life. | | | American social democrats believe unabashedly that the United States is a force for good in the world. | | | This is a role we intend to continue. |
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| | Black Wings: Overcoming Obstacles—How People Cause Social Change |
| | Begin by reading your local paper at least 3 days in a row. | | | Call your local politician and ask to meet with him or her | | | You can use the support when you convince decision makers to make a change. |
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http://www.nasm.si.edu/interact/blackwings/hstudent/activity3step03.html
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| | I will negotiate at the appropriate time with the law writers. | | | We're talking about Social Security and other issues raised by President Bush in his 17th news conference yesterday. | | | Here is one of the exchanges Bush had with reporters when asked about his social security plan. |
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http://www.democracynow.org/print.pl?sid=04/12/21/1535228
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| | Democracy: A Social Power Analysis |
| | This was appropriate for the era in which the Constitution was written. | | | Backing up his economic independence with his long-barrelled rifle, the typical American of 1787 had a great deal of social power. | | | If political campaign expenses are paid by the wealthy, then that's who politicians listen to. |
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| | Social Democratic Parties of the World |
| | Social Democratic Party of Switzerland / Socialist Party of Switzerland (Sozialdemokratische Partei der Schweiz / Parti Socialiste Suisse / Partito Socialista Svizzero, SP/PS), associated to PES | | | Alliance for Democracy in Mali/African Party of Solidarity and Justice | | | Let's Unite - National Union for Social Security Movement (Unámonos - Movimiento Unión Nacional por la Seguridad Social), Colombia |
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| | MoveOn.org: Democracy in Action |
| | We work on critical issues like Supreme Court nominees, Social Security and the war in Iraq. | | | Together, we're matching every move made by the Republicans—sending organizers to cities Bush visits days before he arrives, highlighting local community members who are opposed to gutting Social Security, and running ads which expose what the Republican plan for Social Security would really do. | | | And as the 2006 elections draw closer, we'll reach out to our neighbors to craft a positive agenda and start to focus on winning back Congress. |
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| | Focus on Social Issues - Constitution and Government |
| | The above warning about the lack of accountability of America's judiciary appeared in 1788, written by Robert Yates, a delegate to the Constitutional convention. | | | Focus on Social Issues - Constitution and Government | | | CitizenLink is a registered trademark of Focus on the Family. |
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| | Press Release (ILO/03/34): ILO Launches global campaign on social security for all - Department of Communication |
| | Somavia says social security systems contribute not only to human security, dignity, equity and social justice but also provide a foundation for political inclusion, empowerment and the development of democracy. | | | According to an ILO study (see note 1) entitled "Extending Social Security: Policies for developing countries", social security coverage involves access to health care and basic income security in cases of old age, unemployment, sickness, invalidity, work injury, maternity or loss of a breadwinner. | | | The campaign reflects a global consensus on the part of governments and employers' and workers' organizations to broaden social security coverage among working people, particularly in the informal economy, and raise awareness worldwide about the role of social security in economic and social development. |
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| | Free Burma Coalition Mission |
| | However, these campaign successes have not made a dent in terms of political and economic progress for our country's ordinary citizens in whose name they have been waged. | | | The FBC was founded at the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1995 as a Burmese-led political initiative to support Burmese people's aspiration and struggle for democracy and human rights. | | | But Amnesty International says the regime is tightening its crackdown on dissent. |
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| | Extreme Democracy: Chapter 14. Campaign Tools |
| | Deanspace, Social Networks, and Politics by Jon Lebkowsky | | | Announcement: book in progress on "Peer to Peer Theory" |
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http://www.extremedemocracy.com/archives/2004/10/chapter_14_camp.html
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| | Dennis Kucinich: Insight and Action (Home Page) |
| | From the beginning this administration has waged a campaign of misinformation and has continued to deliberately mislead the public and this Congress about the realities on the ground. | | | The truth is that Iraq will never be free and the insurgency will not end until we end our occupation and allow the decisions about the future of Iraq to be made in Baghdad, not Washington. | | | In an interview posted today at Democracy Rising, Dennis Kucinich answers questions about Democratic Party leadership, conditions on the ground in Iraq, and the future of the Peace Movement. |
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| | Democracy - US Department of State |
| | Rule of Law Is Key to Advancing Democracy, Rice Says | | | Sunni engagement in Iraq's political process is one important sign of the nation's strengthening democracy, which will spell ultimate defeat for violent extremists, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice declares in series of interviews in Baghdad with U.S. and Arab news media. | | | Iraq Progressing Toward Democracy, Rice Affirms in Baghdad |
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