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| | GPCA )) Platform |
 | | As in the case of the initiative and referendum, the recall process gives citizens a chance to practice grassroots democracy by removing elected officials who are disapproved of by a majority of voters. | | | Compared to the U.S. Congress, which is 88% male, women in the national and state legislatures of PR democracies often have between 25% to 50% of the seats. | | | Reduce the number of signatures required to qualify a referendum for the ballot to three percent of the votes cast for the governor in the last election. |
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http://cagreens.org/platform/democrac.htm
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| | Gusmao urges grassroots democracy as E. Timor marks 100 days of freedom |
| | Democracy is not only exercised in elections that took place and will take place to elect a Parliament or a President. | | | The Constitution was passed democratically and enshrines participatory democracy. | | | If the Timorese Police does not gain this awareness of duty, our democracy will die, the imposed arbitrary behaviour will allow injustice to flourish, because the police will not be defending the law, will not be defending the Constitution but rather obeying to the excesses of the authorities. |
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http://www.etan.org/et2002c/august/25-31/30gusmmao.htm
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| | Seeds for Thought: Grassroots Democracy: Towards a Natural Politics |
| | Last week private Lynndie England was convicted for her role in abusing prisoners at Abu Ghraib in 2003, and sentenced to three years in a military prison. | | | This week I’m writing, not so much about politics per se, but about the meaning and impact of political work viewed through the prism of the recent suicide of a friend and fellow Green Party leader here in Minnesota. | | | The Green Party of Minnesota lost one of its party leaders to suicide this past week. |
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http://thoughtoffering.blogs.com/ice_seeds/grassroots_democracy_towards_a_natural_politics
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| | MoveOn.org Political Action : Operation Democracy Overview |
| | Fortunately, our work was part of the grassroots movement that succeeded in heading off this threat for now (though Republicans were able to get votes on several egregious judicial nominees). | | | The key to their plan was this: before the public notices, they hoped to change Senate rules to silence Democrats and end the long-standing requirement that lifetime judicial nominees have broad support in Congress. | | | It grows out of the Future of MoveOn houseparties we held after the 2004 election, where 15,000 MoveOn members voted to combine grassroots organizing with a bold, visionary progressive message, and to focus on issues like right-wing Supreme Court justices, election reform, the Iraq war and the environment. |
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http://www.moveonpac.org/team/overview.html
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| | Elections in Gujarat: A dismal record of grassroots democracy |
| | When Modi made a mockery of local democracy by giving monetary Incentives from the exchequer to do away with the democratic contest, no BJP spokesperson in New Delhi questioned him. | | | A senior BJP leader has been quoting the Constitution out of context. | | | But in Gujarat, Modi has already been appointed caretaker Chief Minister. |
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http://www.pucl.org/Topics/Religion-communalism/2002/grassroots.htm
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| | Muddling toward Democracy Political Change in Grassroots China |
| | At their best, village elections introduce the notions of competition, choice, and justice into local societies where submission to authority and domination by local emperors have long been the norm. | | | Among U.S. organizations, the Ford Foundation, the International Republican Institute, the Asia Foundation, and the Carter Center have all been active, supporting efforts by the Ministry of Civil Affairs and by grassroots reformers to implement the election law. | | | Muddling toward Democracy: Rural Sichuan Province, November 1995 |
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1004179/posts
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| | Grassroots America Defends the Bill of Rights National Conference |
| | Build grassroots support for congressional measures that will defend and expand civil liberties and build opposition to further attempts to limit civil liberties. | | | Grassroots America Defends the Bill of Rights First National Conference | | | Today, a nationwide, broad-based movement of local efforts to restore civil liberties guaranteed under the Constitution and Bill of Rights holds the promise of deepening community involvement in civil liberties. |
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http://www.grassroots-america.org
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| | The Kathmandu Post |
| | The Nepali Congress is in the middle along with its UML counterpart, who are defending the parliamentary democracy and hence the target of both right and extreme left. | | | So what happened in the interim that led the junta to deviate from this most noble path of ushering in democracy? | | | The Maoist movement is the result of the failure of the thirteen years rule of the democratic form of government, to make democracy meaningful and bring social justice to the poor and deprived. |
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http://www.kantipuronline.com/archive/kpost/2003-6-14/kp_editorial.htm
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| | Grass Roots Unity Press Release |
| | This Flag Day, June 14, Americans for Social Justice is launching a national program to spark public debate about the state of democracy and social justice in the United States, and to raise money to support "deep democracy" electoral reforms. | | | This U.S. flag will be adorned with a bright green fringe representing and honoring the grassroots of social justice -- organizations and individuals working for progressive change. | | | Americans for Social Justice will work with organizations and individuals in efforts to promote democracy reform. |
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http://www.grassrootsunity.org/press.html
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| | S/R 14: Individual Members: The Grassroots of Green Party Democracy |
| | grassroots members directly elect those representatives (state or local); 2. | | | I don't think the question of local or state delegations to Green Party national conventions is what is really dividing ASGP from GPUSA. | | | What some ASGP leaders really mean by "state-based structure" is not that they want to replace local party delegations with state party delegations in national conventions, but that they want to replace individuals as the members of the national Green Party with the state parties. |
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http://www.greens.org/s-r/14/14-02.html
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| | Building a Democracy Movement - About Reclaim Democracy.org |
| | Establish a constitutional right to vote (see A Missing Ingredient for Democracy). | | | Reverse the precedent of equating political spending with constitutionally-protected speech (see It's Time to Overrule the Supreme Court for more); and | | | Ultimately, we aim to help drive a broad-based Democracy Movement that will effect at least three core legal changes--either through Constitutional Amendment or reversing Supreme Court precedent: |
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http://reclaimdemocracy.org/about_us.html
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| | CIVIC Hosts Russian Visitors To Learn About Grassroots Democracy |
| | More specifically, they will discuss American laws governing candidates running for office, the election process, ways of reforming it, observe election campaigning, responsibilities of American political parties and how they function at various levels. | | | They will also visit the Amana Colonies, attend an event with Tipper Gore on Sunday, and join members of the Johnson County League of Women Voters for lunch Monday. | | | The program will cover many specific topics including the making of public policy, understanding federalism, the U.S. democratic process in general, grassroots methods of citizen involvement in elections and also the media's role in promoting a grassroots democracy. |
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http://www.uiowa.edu/~ournews/2002/july/0710russianvisitors.html
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| | Volunteers relished taste of grassroots democracy |
| | The spirit of what we’re doing is so crucial, because the outcome affects our supreme court and our immigration laws. | | | It’s more patriotic and more of a grassroots movement, like the civil rights movement, when so many of us get involved. |
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http://www.thecommunicator.org/dec04jan05/votegrassroots.htm
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| | Grassroots Forum for Democracy |
| | Grassroots Democracy believes Christine is the Progressive alternative to whoever the Republicans put up in the 6th Congressional District. | | | Grassroots Democracy is an organization composed of Democratic activists and others determined to revitalize the Democratic party. | | | At this meeting we discussed the need to send a message of support to Illinois Senator Dick Durbin for his courage in taking a stand criticizing the administration for conditions under which prisoners are held at Guantanemo. |
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http://grassrootsforum.org
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| | The Iranian Constitutional Revolution, 1906-1911: Grassroots Democracy, Social Democracy, and the Origin of Feminism |
| | It is not far from the truth to speak of the political activities of the Iranian intellectuals and the activists for constitutionalism as a struggle for social justice, whatever social justice may have meant at that time. | | | Chapter four deals with events and forces that contributed to the clash over the supplementary constitutional laws, with importance given to the role of conservative religious forces. | | | While chapter eight deals with the civil war in Azerbaijan as a form of class struggle, chapter nine attempts to show the connection between the revolution and international efforts to establish democracy and social justice. |
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http://go.owu.edu/~aamahdi/Afary-rew.htm
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| | GPUSA National Green Program |
| | In mixed-member proportional representation, voters elect half of the legislative body from single-member districts by preference voting and the other half election at-large from party lists. | | | Everywhere else, at the local, state, and federal levels, government in the United States is oligarchic (rule by the few). | | | To be honest and accurate, the form of government in the United States is plutocratic oligarchy. |
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http://www.greenparty.org/program/grassdemoc.html
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| | Broad Coalition Home Page |
| | It is equally important that voters consider voting strategically. | | | So the work of the Broad Coalition, generating grassroots discussion and getting progressive voters to cooperate, is an important initiative." |
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| | Building Democracy from the Grassroots in Argentina - US Department of State |
| | Interviewed from his office at the University of Maryland on September 25, Sosnowski explained that the project to develop a culture of democracy in Latin America "began in 1995. | | | It took a long time in the United States, for example. | | | You Are In: USINFO > Topics > Democracy > Rule of Law |
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http://usinfo.state.gov/dhr/democracy/rule_of_law/Argentina_Justice_Undergoing_Change/Building_Democracy_from_the_Grassroots_in_Argentina.html
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| | The Hindu : Consolidating grassroots democracy |
| | Considering that bodies for local self-government were accorded legal status by the Constitution 73rd and 74th Amendments in 1992 wherein procedures for the conduct of elections and the composition of PRIs were streamlined, it is about time perhaps that the administrative nitty-gritty to ensure their effectiveness as vibrant institutions of participatory democracy received due attention. | | | The task ahead is clearly formidable, not in the least because of the stark reality of some States refusing to hold local elections for years since the landmark enactment of 1992 and systematic attempts by the political classes to scuttle the democratic process in an overwhelming majority of others. | | | What has hindered any real devolution of powers to the panchayats hitherto is not any lacuna in the law, but a palpable lack of political will on the part of parties across the spectrum to infuse fresh blood into these indigenous political institutions. |
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http://www.hindu.com/2002/04/13/stories/2002041300351000.htm
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| | Sri Lanka GROW Project |
| | Currently the members are eagerly following through with the required mandate and securing the political support to make it to a constitutional law. | | | Approximately 35 NIU graduate students from the Department of Counseling, Adult, and Higher Education attended. | | | Twenty participants who are the leaders of the four partner NGOS participated in the workshop. |
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http://www.niu.edu/srilankaproj/report4.html
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| | Hudson Institute > Publication Details |
| | Why donât our law enforcement and housing and drug rehabilitation programs build directly on your successes? | | | Certainly, the President of the United States has felt that power. | | | The grassroots approach relies on the community of those who have been through the same trials and tribulations, who are linked in the heart, not just abstractions in someoneâs head. |
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http://www.hudson.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=publication_details&id=3220
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| | Tensegrities: The Net, Howard Dean, and grassroots democracy |
| | Tensegrities: The Net, Howard Dean, and grassroots democracy | | | The upswell of support for Dean is more than just a neat little "trick" of a new media tool. | | | I'm tired of the old media seeing new media only in instrumental ways. |
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http://www.religioused.org/tarchives/000176.html
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| | Reclaim Democracy! Revoke Corporate Corruption of American Democracy |
| | When it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it" | | | The Supreme Court's wildly creative interpretation of the Constitution in 1978 has undermined democracy in ballot questions ever since. | | | ReclaimDemocracy.org is dedicated to restoring democratic authority over corporations, reviving grassroots democracy, and establishing appropriate limits to the realm of corporate influence. |
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http://www.reclaimdemocracy.org
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| | Grassroots democracy key to development |
| | Manh also mentioned those administrative offices, public service units and State owned enterprises that have yet to implement the grassroots democracy statute. | | | By training officials at grassroots level and combining the statute with socio-economic development in every province and city, Manh said different sectors also play an important role in bringing the statute to life. | | | The report confirmed that the statute is supported by the people, demonstrating that "the Party’s idea suits popular opinion." |
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http://vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn/2004-09/29/Stories/03.htm
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| | Democracy For America |
| | Contributions to Democracy for America are not tax deductible for federal income tax purposes. | | | Democracy for America supports common sense candidates who are fiscally responsible and socially progressive. | | | Whether you are new to DFA or have been around since the Dean campaign, it's time to reach out to new people. |
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http://www.democracyforamerica.com
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| | MI Green Platform 2000: Grassroots Democracy |
| | The US is one of only a handful of democracies in the world that still predominantly use a winner-take-all electoral system, which only reinforces the entrenched two-party monopoly. | | | The two major parties cynically jockey to look as if they care about "good government," when, in fact, they restrict ballot access to third-parties and independent candidates through a labyrinth of restrictive election laws, and bluntly reject meaningful public debate and election reform. | | | We endorse legal rights to organize and join unions with democratically elected leadership. |
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http://www.migreens.org/platform/1.html
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| | Demokratizatsiya: Social capital and grassroots democracy in Russia's regions: Evidence from the 1999-2001 ... |
| | As early as 1989 and 1990, when Soviet citizens went to the polls to vote for delegates to their republic-level legislatures many also had the opportunity to vote for their regional and city legislatures. | | | That leads to a particularly troubling situation, therefore, since society's involvement in local politics may be lacking at precisely the time that it is most needed--the period of postcommunist state building, which, under Putin, may progress into the development of a neoauthoritarian state. | | | The major defense against that would be a strong grassroots base of democracy and democratic support. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3996/is_200201/ai_n9061994
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| | Promoting grassroots democracy will make officials more effective |
| | This is true, because democracy has not been practised well in all Party committees and Party cells. | | | For example, regarding the Party elections we must gather opinions from both inside and outside the Party. | | | I can not speak specifically about the performance of local Party committees and Party cells, but the Politburo and the Party Secretariat, of which I am a member, are embracing this practice. |
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http://vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn/2004-10/18/Stories/15.htm
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| | The Kathmandu Post |
| | However, with the parliament elections announced, the government’s inability or unwillingness even to fix the date for elections of the local bodies, would raise more doubts about its intention. | | | The government must act promptly to dissuade the Deutscher Entwicklungsdienst from stopping the fund. | | | A government determined to hold parliamentary elections cannot take the plea that the situation is not ripe for the local bodies’ elections. |
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http://www.kantipuronline.com/archive/kpost/2002-8-1/kp_editorial.htm
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| | Grassroots - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | A grassroots political movement, inspired by the German word "Graswurzel", is a movement organized by a network of citizens. | | | This page was last modified 12:12, 7 December 2005. | | | In politics, grassroots organizing is about ordinary people doing extraordinary work to improve the world we live in. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grassroots
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| | Green Party of Seattle: About Us: Ten Key Values: Grassroots Democracy |
| | The basic premise of democracy -- that anyone impacted by a decision should have a voice in that decision -- is simple to articulate but difficult to implement. | | | First of all, Greens choose to participate in the political process, not by joining existing party institutions, but by creating a new party. | | | Democracy is one of America's great unfinished projects. |
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http://www.seattlegreens.org/about/grassroots_democracy.html
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| | Panchayati Raj Campaign: The Cycle of Malnutrition |
| | The current democratic structure was established in 1991, after years of dictatorship. | | | One of the most visionary provisions of the legislation is that 30 per cent of the seats in Union Parishads are reserved for women - providing grassroots women an unprecedented opportunity to participate in local decision making in Bangladesh. | | | Only when there is effective local democracy - when people have real voice in the decisions that affect their lives, when they can mobilise and control their own resources and manage the programmes to meet the basic needs of the community - will they bring their full responsibility and creativity these efforts. |
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http://www.thp.org/sai00/bangladesh/democracy.htm
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| | Tostan News - Senegal - Grassroots Democracy In Action |
| | Democracy was interpreted and discussed as an arrangement affecting family life, local associations and village organization every bit as much as it did politics at the regional or national level. | | | The democracy debate appears also to be having major effects on practice within local associations and communities. | | | Participants in the Tostan democracy education program were quick to denounce the practice of allowing the beating of wives and children within the family. |
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http://www.tostan.org/news-grassroots.htm
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| | Iowa Democrats are getting taste of grassroots democracy (printable version) |
| | Today’s caucuses in Iowa are a democratic (small d) throwback that will begin the winnowing process for the Democratic (big D) candidates for the presidency. | | | The first-in-the-nation caucuses may not give the more than 120,000 party members expected to participate an inordinate amount of power over the national election — Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush both finished third at their respective party caucuses in 1992 but won the nominations. | | | But the caucuses do take the campaign to the grassroots, giving Iowans probably more access to the candidates than the voters in any other state could hope for and allows them direct participation in one of the most important aspects of our democracy. |
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http://www.rgj.com/news/printstory.php?id=61827
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| | democracy guy: Dare To Stop Walmart - Now |
| | This is the same problem you are having with Judgeship appointments, I can see why it trickles down to this. | | | The way this deal was put together, over opposition from the local councilman, the community, labor unions, IN SECRET, is a perfect illustration of the joke that Cleveland politics puts forth as government. | | | Most of the reporting on the MSM about the impending Republican maneuver to end the filibuster actually does not even come close to explaining just how bad, illegal and unprecedented this action will be. |
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http://democracyguy.typepad.com/democracy_guy_grassroots_/2005/05/dare_to_stop_wa.html
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| | CorpWatch : BRAZIL: What About Grassroots Democracy? |
| | Politics had to be less about trusting well-meaning leaders, and more about empowering people to make their own decisions; democracy had to be less representative and more participatory. | | | Right now, it looks as if Lula has only two choices: abandoning his election promises of wealth redistribution or trying to force them through and ending up in a Chavez-style civil war. | | | But there is another option, one his own Workers Party has tried before, one that made Porto Alegre itself a beacon of a new kind of politics: more democracy. |
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http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=5370
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| | Information Technology and Grassroots Democracy |
| | Citizens have been transmogrified into consumers, taxpayers, and voters. | | | First, it shows that new information technologies may serve as infrastructures for organized citizen participation in public affairs. | | | The message is of great import for the construction of democratic institutions. |
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http://upress.kent.edu/Nieman/Information_Technology.htm
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| | Events - Valley Grassroots for Democracy - Meetup.com |
| | We'll be letter writing for AB 583, the clean money bill in the California assembly, and planning our February candidates forum. | | | Democracy for America - Los Angeles January Meetup | | | Democracy for America Meetups are in 210 cities worldwide! |
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http://dfa.meetup.com/35/events
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| | Valley Grassroots for Democracy www.valleygrassrootsfordemocracy.com |
| | This is a FREE grassroots event and a great opportunity to meet this prominent Democratic leader | | | Valley Grassroots for Democracy is an independent, grassroots volunteer organization that is not affiliated with any candidate or candidate's committee. | | | Space is limited so please RSVP as soon as possible to |
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http://www.valleyfordemocracy.com
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| | Green Party of the United States |
| | Therefore, we will work to increase public participation at every level of government and to ensure that our public representatives are fully accountable to the people who elect them. | | | We will also work to create new types of political organizations which expand the process of participatory democracy by directly including citizens in the decision-making process. | | | All persons should have the rights and opportunity to benefit equally from the resources afforded us by society and the environment. |
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http://www.gp.org/tenkey.shtml
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| | Panhandle (W.Va.) Grassroots for Democracy: Pakistan |
| | This is a paragraph of text that could go in the sidebar. | | | The Panhandle Grassroots for Democracy is working to improve our corner of eastern West Virginia, our state and our nation. | | | And let us not forget the type of nation W has supported. |
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http://wvgrassroots.blogspot.com/2005/06/pakistan.html
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| | Forums - After 27 Years Grassroots Democracy Returns to Jammu and Kashmir |
| | Forums - After 27 Years Grassroots Democracy Returns to Jammu and Kashmir | | | After 27 Years Grassroots Democracy Returns to Jammu and Kashmir | | | Discuss the story After 27 Years Grassroots Democracy Returns to Jammu and Kashmir at |
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http://www.satribune.com/thread.jsp?forum=3&thread=2325
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| | Open Sources: Participatory Democracy Grassroots Republic Genuine Liberty & Real Justice for All |
| | This, I'm sure, is what you would wish for your children too. | | | I want to leave her with a functioning democracy that represents the collective interests of all citizens of this republic. | | | As founder and director of a grassroots media organization here in Portland (Open Media Center) I do whatever I can to help strengthen the cause of local community media. |
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http://opensources.davy.us
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| | Grassroots Democracy in Iraq, American Style |
| | We are making such material available in our efforts to advance understanding of environmental, political, human rights, economic, democracy, scientific, and social justice issues, etc. We believe this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. | | | At the end of May, a group of US soldiers came to his neighborhood in a dangerous section of Baghdad and convened a meeting. | | | This site contains copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. |
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http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0826-01.htm
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| | Grassroots: Democracy Wall |
| | Last September, George Bush launched the war on terrorism with the warning: "Either you are with us or you are with the terrorists." This stifling of public dissent threatens the very democracy we are trying to protect. | | | The U.S. is at a crossroads: open debate that encourages diverse and opposing points of view is of critical importance at this time. | | | Selected contributions will be periodically updated on the Democracy Wall below. |
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http://www.grassrootsonline.org/rethink/yrwall.html
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| | Midwest DFA Grassroots Training - Democracy For Missouri |
| | Local and national experts on Campaign Management, Field Organizing, Communications and Get-Out-The-Vote will be on-hand to instruct and work with you one-on-one. | | | communicate a message, influence your local media, run a local campaign and build your local grassroots group's attendance, activity, and effectiveness. | | | And the DFA Training Academy is coming to Lawrence, Kansas on October 21-22 to help. |
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http://www.democracyformo.com/d/node/611?PHPSESSID=9999914bf1d7f313def6f82b831d1195
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