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| | MIPT Terrorism Knowledge Base |
 | | Founding Philosophy: The Movement for Democracy and Justice in Chad was a guerilla movement dedicated to the overthrow of Chadian President Idriss Deby. | | | Movement for Democracy and Justice in Chad (MDJT) | | | Aliases: Movement for Democracy and Justice in Chad (MDJC) |
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| | The Pro-Democracy Movement in ICANN |
| | The elections were a major victory for the pro-democracy movement. | | | The pro-democracy movement reigned supreme in these two regions. | | | That some members of the leadership had doctoral degrees was not so unusual - after all the U.S. civil rights movement of the 1960s was led by a Ph.D. holder. |
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| | Chinese democracy movement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | With regard to political dissent engendered by the movement, the government has taken a three pronged approach. | | | Second, the less well-known leaders of a dissident movement are identified and given severe jail sentences. | | | The founding document of the movement can be considered to be the manifesto, the Fifth Modernization authored by Wei Jingsheng, who was sentenced to fifteen years in prison for authoring the document. |
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| | Open Directory - Society: Politics: Democracy |
| | Center for Voting and Democracy - Provides information to the public about the impact of voting systems on political representation, proportional representation, voter turnout, and the influence of money in elections. | | | Centre for Democracy and Development - A non-profit, non governmental, institution dedicated to policy-oriented scholarship on questions of democratic development and peace-building in West Africa. | | | International Republican Institute - Non-partisan Washington, DC-based group which conducts programs outside the United States to promote democracy and strengthen free markets and the rule of law. |
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| | Asia Times Online :: China News, China Business News, Taiwan and Hong Kong News and Business. |
| | The slogan-chanting demonstrators dressed in black to symbolize the state of democracy in Hong Kong - but not, it was clear, the state of the democrats. | | | He completed his tenure as acting chief and, with overwhelming support on Hong Kong's 800-member Election Committee, which is dominated by Beijing loyalists, easily won his own term in June. | | | And, in a highly unusual move, Tsang made a prime-time television address Wednesday in which he described the scheduled December 21 LegCo vote on his reforms as "a crossroads in democratic development" and appealed for the support of Hong Kong residents. |
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| | WDDM Founding Documents |
| | Based on democratic principles, the role of the CC is to lead the WDD Movement by overwhelming majority vote. | | | We, members of the Continuing International Congress on Direct Democracy (CICDD) decided during our second Congress in Delphi, Greece, the birthplace of democracy, to establish a formal Worldwide Direct Democracy Movement. | | | Members are acting independently in the country in which they live. |
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http://democracy.mkolar.org/pdda/WDDM.html
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| | Open Directory - Society: Politics: Democracy: Direct Democracy |
| | Direct Democracy League (DDL) - Advocates national and state level constitutional renewal in the United States to meld direct democracy institutions with representative institutions. | | | Defacto Elective Voters Of a True Equal Democracy (DEVOTED) - Supports a constitutional amendment using existing technology to allow citizens to vote directly in the law making process. | | | Calling for an American Constitutional Amendment for Voter Initiatives - Voter Initiatives Assembly to manage, process and select Initiatives. |
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| | ZNet Global Economics THE LIVING DEMOCRACY MOVEMENT |
| | Social and economic justice and ecological sustainability became the rallying call for new movements for citizen freedoms and liberation from corporate control. | | | It also brought back the focus on the intimate connection between violence, inequality and non-sustainability and the indivisibility of peace, justice and sustainability. | | | The living democracy movement is simultaneously an ecology movement, an anti-poverty movement, a recovery of the commons movement, a deepening of democracy movement, a peace movement. |
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http://www.zmag.org/content/GlobalEconomics/ShivaWSF.cfm
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| | Free China Movement |
| | Below is a list of CDP members currently serving prison terms in China followed by the lengths of their sentences. | | | Zhao Ziyang, former General Secretary of the Communist Party in China, contributed mightily to China's move towards economic reform, free markets, political reform, democracy, and the rule of law. | | | If actions speak louder than words, you are off the page with your own second inaugural address--particularly in the case of Chinese democracy. |
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| | Major Hong Kong protest csmonitor.com |
| | After Beijing removed unpopular former chief executive Tung Chee-hwa, the democracy movement seemed to lose focus. | | | For us to accept more appointments is a regression, it is not progressive," said a businessman in tennis shoes. | | | POUNDING THE PAVEMENT: Marchers are demanding the right to vote for the city's leader and legislature. |
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| | Asia Times |
| | Iran's first major popular movement for democracy resulted in the 1906 Constitutional Revolution, which changed the Qajar Dynasty's despotic monarchy into a constitutional one. | | | Hence, the landslide election as president of Mohammad Khatami did not begin the Iranian democratic movement. | | | The pro-democracy movement reappeared in the early 1960s, only to be suppressed again in 1963 as the Shah consolidated his power. |
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| | Israel Palestine Center for Research and Information - IPCRI |
| | The World Movement is led by an international Steering Committee and the Washington, DC-based National Endowment for Democracy (NED) currently serves as its secretariat. | | | In a difficult climate in which elections are rigged, politicians are “disappeared,” human rights violated, and independent organizations shut down; the movement is struggling to promote a return to democracy and economic reform in Belarus. | | | Largely unrecognized and often at great personal risk, this democratic movement is exerting increasing pressure on all sides of Sudan’s 20-year civil war to end the fighting, and is building the foundations for sustainable peace, democracy, and human rights in the country. |
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| | ZNet China Hong-Kong's Democracy Movement |
| | That an accepted model of âdemocracyâ-- a 'Western-style' representative system impacting on the political arena alone, and involving the election of career politiciansâ” exists, and will be followed. | | | The term recently re-entered the mainstream press in Hong Kong when a recently elected legislator, Cheung Chiu-hung, suggested holding an unofficial referendum in the city on the best method for choosing the Chief Executive and members of the legislature. | | | It was also not long ago that Martin Lee and other major Hong Kong 'pro-democracy figures' embarked on their famous trip to Washington to "discuss democracy" with senior figures in the Bush administration. |
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| | Tireless Supporter of Burmese Democracy Movement Passed Away |
| | Since 1988 till the time he passed away, he helped students and refugees to study at his Oxford Senior Secondary School, which is recognized by the Government of India in New Delhi, which was under his administration. | | | Mawthiri, passed away in his Delhi residence today at 4:00am, due to old age. | | | He used his influence and all his energy throughout his life in order to create awareness of the Burmese democracy movement. |
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http://www.mizzima.com/archives/news-in-2003/news-in-jul/09-jul03-06.htm
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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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| | Youth Seen as 'Heart' of Democracy Movement in Egypt |
| | The State Department called it one step in the march towards full democracy, but also urged continued reforms to ensure that future elections are more credible to the Egyptian people. | | | Protestors carrying banners urging voters not to re-elect Hosni Mubarak | | | President Mubarak has been in power for 24 years. |
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| | Democracy Movement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Democracy Movement campaigns to win a 'NO' vote in any referendum held on the EU Constitution. | | | This article is about a political group in the United Kingdom. | | | Powers will be decentralised from Brussels back to elected national parliaments whose laws will resume legal precedence. |
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| | The Democracy Movement: EU Constitution - key quotes |
| | The Democracy Movement: EU Constitution - key quotes | | | “[This] infantile Constitution will lead to a social wreck and saps democracy.” | | | Where am I? home > EU Constitution mini-site > key quotes |
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| | Cubafacts.com - Manual For Working With the Democracy Movement in Cuba |
| | The motive is to foster dialogue and a peaceful transition to democracy by contributing to the break up of the state monopoly on information in Cuba. | | | There is also quite a lot of documents from the political organisations in the democracy movement, among them the declarations and statements by the Mesa de Reflexión de la Oposición Moderada, founded by four political parties, two liberal, one social democratic and one Christian democratic, together with one trade union. | | | This is where the international support has its first mission. |
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| | McCain: Cuba's pro-democracy movement 'alive and well' |
| | The senator praised members of Cuba's pro-democracy movement and urged other countries to support Cuba in its move from dictatorship toward democracy. | | | McCain is chairman of the International Republican Institute, an organization dedicated to advancing democracy in Cuba and other countries worldwide. | | | McCain spoke to mark the release of "Dissenting Voices," an institute publication detailing the struggles of Cuba's pro-democracy movement since March 2003, when the Castro regime launched a crackdown. |
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| | THC-WCF |
| | Christian Democracy also sought to deliver both freedom and justice, goals to be pursued with equal vigor. As Etienne Borne explained in his book, Cet Inconnu: | | | Kuyper also insisted that this movement must proceed in cooperation with Holland’s Roman Catholic minority, politically organized as The Catholic Party. As he told fellow members of the Anti-Revolutionary Party: | | | The Catholic effort had to overcome the view that the Church of Rome, from the fall of Napoleon in 1815 through the revolutions of 1848, was reactionary, favoring the oppression of the people, opposing their democratic aspirations, and ignoring the new problems posed by industrial society. |
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| | U.S. Newswire : Releases : "World Movement for Democracy to Meet in Istanbul..." |
| | It is led by a distinguished international Steering Committee and the Washington, DC-based National Endowment for Democracy (NED) currently serves as its Secretariat. | | | More information about the World Movement, including a report on the Third Assembly, which took place in Durban, South Africa, in February 2004, is available on the World Movement Web site (http://www.wmd.org). | | | The workshops will be designed to maximize participation and to produce practical recommendations and initiatives to address the myriad challenges democrats confront worldwide, including developing viable political parties, ensuring free and fair elections, securing workers' rights, combating corruption, instituting economic reforms, increasing women's equal participation in politics, and promoting ethnic and religious reconciliation. |
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| | Baheyya: Egypt Analysis and Whimsy بهية: All Eyes on the Judges |
| | Fair elections mean total judicial supervision which means real judicial independence. | | | It has come to stand in for nothing less than the thirst for democracy and justice among Egypt’s society in movement. | | | The demand for judicial independence is no longer just a quaint slogan or narrow sectional interest, if it ever was. |
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| | New Democracy Website |
| | Why won't Hamas tell the world why there should not be a Jewish state in Palestine? | | | More and more, our world is dominated by a small group of extremely wealthy individuals who control the big corporations and the government and impose their values of competition and greed on the rest of us. | | | The Antiwar Movement Isn’t Where You Think It Is by Dave Stratman |
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| | Amazon.com: Black Hands of Beijing: Lives of Defiance in China's Democracy Movement: Books: George Black,Robin Munro |
| | Falsely accused of masterminding the Tiananmen rally, they are serving long prison terms. | | | Third, the democracy movement was affected profoundly by outside influences. | | | Based on scores of interviews with participants in China's democracy movement, this dramatic, absorbing chronicle interweaves the lives of three "black hands." Activist Wang Juntao and social scientist Chen Ziming edited a moderate protest journal and led a "think tank" that unsuccessfully tried to mediate the conflict between student protesters and the Communist Party. |
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| | The Democracy Movement: No EU Constitution - bookshop |
| | The Democracy Movement: No EU Constitution - bookshop | | | It comprehensively refutes the claim that the Treaty’s provisions constitute a mere tidying-up of existing legislation. | | | Click here to print a form to order direct from the Congress for Democracy. |
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| | China: Human Rights & the Democracy Movement |
| | A Travesty of Justice: The Show Trial of Wei Jingsheng | | | Reports by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor of the U.S. Department of State | | | Released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, U.S. Department of State (Sept. 5, 2000) |
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| | Human Rights & Democracy Movement - Convention 1992 |
| | Human Rights and Democracy Movement - Convention 1992 | | | Copyright © 2003 Human Rights and Democracy Movement Tonga - All Rights Reserved. | | | ‘Oku fakamatala ‘e he Chambers Encyclopedia, 1904: “Much has been written on the merits and demerits, the advantages and disadvantages of democracy. |
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| | Harbinger - Prefigurative Politics in the Pro-Democracy Movement |
| | Harbinger - Prefigurative Politics in the Pro-Democracy Movement | | | We create temporary political institutions that govern our movement in the here-and-now. | | | But as inspiring as these spokes councils have been, they have largely died out with the passing of the political moment. |
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| | Human Rights & Democracy Movement Tonga - Home |
| | The issues addressed related to social justice, exploitation of the poor, inequality, womens’ rights, land shortange, constitutional amendments and corruption. | | | This name was later changed in 1998 to TONGA HUMAN RIGHTS and DEMOCRACY MOVEMENT. | | | The initiative to push for democratic governance in Tonga was led by prominent personalities. |
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| | Ming the Mechanic |
| | This document, which is a couple of years old, is a call for a movement to arise, a movement towards a new kind of democracy. | | | However brilliant and freedom minded the fathers of the U.S. Constitution were, it wasn't direct democracy they had in mind. | | | How can groups of people work out how to organize themselves and act collectively, in a way that serves all the present needs, rather than just serving the lead of an elite, elected or not. |
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| | Direct Democracy Movement |
| | This vulgarization of democracy is dissociated from its history to become a presumptuous universality, | | | Not only had he lost his mind but he also lost his crown. | | | The Direct Democracy Movement (DDM) however is inspired by the concept in the Arab political culture which is easily translated as social-collectivism { Jamahirya }. |
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| | Student Movement Coordination Committee for Democracy in Iran |
| | All we expect is that the United States will remain true to its principles of liberty, justice, and its ideals of democracy. | | | While the future of Iran will be decided, solely, by its people and the ultimate responsibility to free the nation is with the Iranians, all we ask is the moral support of the United States. | | | Why is it, Senator, in all your statements, you don't, even once, mention the oppressed and suffering masses of Iran? |
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| | World Movement for Democracy – Made in the USA by Tom Barry |
| | The leading voice of this "movement" is President George W. Bush. | | | Penn Kemble, a longtime associate of Carl Gershman and Elliott Abrams and who, like Gershman, has his political roots in the Trotskyist Social Democrats/USA, served as deputy director of the now-defunct U.S. Information Agency, a stronghold of neoconservatives since the early 1980s. | | | The "world's democratic movement" is not another one of the transnational citizens' movements, like the anti-globalization or anti-war movements, that prides itself on having no central structure, no dogma, or even an office. |
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| | National Endowment for Democracy |
| | On November 8, 2005, just two years after Liberia emerged from a brutal 14-year civil war that claimed more than 200,000 lives and displaced a third of the population, the nation elected the first woman president to serve as a head of state in modern African history. | | | The theme of the Assembly will be "Advancing Democracy: Justice, Pluralism, and Participation." [more... | | | Francis Fukuyama on "Identity, Immigration and Liberal Democracy". |
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| | Welcome to the Lao Students Movement for Democracy |
| | We therefore are urgently asking you on behalf of the Lao Students Movement for Democracy of 26 October, 99, to ask you to please contact your government and your elected officials to contact the Lao government to release Mr. | | | This site was last updated: Sunday, June 6, 2004. | | | We also learn that at least one of the 5 Lao leaders Movement for Democracy whose pictures is on the top of this Web-site has not been seen in the Lao's Gulag for more than a year |
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| | Support Democracy in China Home Page |
| | Martin Lee, Chairman of the Democratic Party of Hong Kong, to speak on March 28 | | | Support Democracy in China (SDC) and Alliance for Hong Kong Chinese in the United States (AHKCUS) present Martin C.M. Lee (Lee Chu Ming), Chairman of Hong Kong's Democratic Party speaking on "The Future of Hong Kong after July 1, 1997." | | | Come visit this compelling pictorial tribute to the student democracy movement. |
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| | ReliefWeb » Document Preview » Thai government threatens Myanmar democracy movement: rights group |
| | Thai government threatens Myanmar democracy movement: rights group | | | According to US-based Human Rights Watch, the Thai government has ordered all refugees in the country from Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, to move to camps along the Myanmar border by March 31. | | | According to the Thai government order, any Myanmar refugees not reporting to be transferred to border refugee camps by March 31 will be arrested and deported to Myanmar. |
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| | Direct Democracy links |
| | » The Impact of the Internet on Popular Democracy in the United States (M.Sc. | | | » Partido politico de tus hijos - Party of your sons (wanting change); it's a DD movement | | | » Democracy>, a 1992/98 article with, among others, a similar proposition to mine to use tax returns for voting. |
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| | NodeWorks - Encyclopedia: World Movement for Democracy |
| | Its missions is to "to strengthen democracy where it is weak, to reform and invigorate democracy even where it is longstanding, and to bolster pro-democracy groups in countries that have not yet entered into a process of democratic transition." | | | World Movement for Democracy is an international network of organizations which share a common goal of promoting democracy. | | | It was initiated in 1999 by the National Endowment for Democracy and two Indian nongovernmental organizations. |
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| | Movement for Democracy in Liberia (MODEL) |
| | In early 2003 a dissident movement known as the Movement for Democracy in Liberia (MODEL) surfaced in the south-eastern region of Liberia. | | | MODEL was described by one of the LURD leaders, Joe Willie, in an interview on 9 April 2003 with the BBC radio ''as an integrated force...'' of LURD. |
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| | Reclaim Democracy! Revoke Corporate Corruption of American Democracy |
| | Uncivil Liberties: ACLU's Argument That "Money Equals Speech" Is Undermining Democracy | | | ReclaimDemocracy.org is dedicated to restoring democratic authority over corporations, reviving grassroots democracy, and establishing appropriate limits to the realm of corporate influence. | | | See our Civil Rights, Transforming Politics and Corporate Accountability pages for articles. |
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| | World Movement for Democracy - Participants Database |
| | You are a participating organization in the World Movement, but you are not listed; | | | The information in this database is drawn from a Participant Survey being conducted by the World Movement Secretariat. | | | For the drop down menus, click on the down arrow and choose one from the list provided to search by Topical focus, Regional Focus, Type of Activity, and Assembly Attended |
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| | World Movement for Democracy |
| | The World Movement for Democracy is a global network of democrats including activists, practitioners, academics, policy makers, and funders, who have come together to cooperate in the promotion of democracy. | | | Youth Movement for Democracy Launches its Global Youth Democracy Campaign | | | All those who are engaged in the advancement of democracy worldwide are welcome to participate. |
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| | Internet Access, Internet Community for Peace and Democracy Movement and Activists |
| | Please visit the various areas of the site, and, if you have questions, suggestions, ideas, use the Suggestion Box to the right to reach us. | | | Real time interaction with other activists, economic empowerment, and the empowerment of the individual are the focus of this effort. | | | We already have a demanding life, there is no need to complicate it further. |
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| | The Democracy Movement: No EU Constitution |
| | This site is best viewed using a frames capable browser, but can also be partly navigated using the text links at the bottom of each page. | | | To go to the Democracy Movement home page, click here. |
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| | 1989 Democracy Movement |
| | It's painful to recall, but it's never to be forgotten. | | | The Historical Records of the Democracy Movement of 1989 in China | | | A gif collection of the Anti-Li Peng rally at UN in NYC, USA on 01/31/92 |
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