Politics & Democracy
"Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property,
are the rulers. -Aristotle (384 - 322 BC)
Headlines
- 11/19/08 - Wal-Mart Dumping Bovine Growth Hormone
- 11/19/08 - Mexicans Wage Monumental Grassroots Struggle to Stop Oil Privatization
- 11/19/08 - The Weekly Spin, November 19, 2008
- 11/19/08 - The Great Transition: Money and the Crisis of Civilization
- 11/18/08 - The Crisis Has Hardly Begun When It's a Clear Day and You Can't See GM
- 11/17/08 - Naomi Klein on the Bailout Profiteers and the Multi-Trillion-Dollar Crime Scene
- 11/17/08 - How to Keep Wall Street in Line
- 11/14/08 - How Our Election Systems Held Up Under a High Turnout Election
- 11/14/08 - Changing Electorate Promises Bright Future for Progressive Politics
- 11/13/08 - Build A Movement to Break The Bailout
- 11/13/08 - An Open Letter to Barack Obama
- 11/12/08 - Six Reasons Why Obama Appointing Monsanto's Buddy, Former Iowa Governor Vilsack, for USDA Head Would be a Terrible Idea
- 11/12/08 - The Weekly Spin, November 12, 2008
- 11/11/08 - Subway Bans Milk from Cows Injected with rBGH
- 11/11/08 - Why Won't the Federal Reserve Say Who They Gave $2 Trillion To?
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The GNA Platform
Press the politicians to support:
- Eliminating the distorting effect of special interest money on our elections and politicians by providing full public funding for all federal, state, and local elections, as well as banning paid political advertising in the media.
- Do you support the declaration of Election Day as a national holiday, instant voter registration, publicly managed open source code for voting machines, laws ensuring that voting machines are secure from tampering, as well as local, state, or federal versions of Senate Bill 1980, requiring that voting systems produce a voter-verified paper ballot.
- Legislation mandating Instant Runoff Voting in city, county, state and federal elections along with the revision of the Electoral College to reflect the popular vote.
- Legislation mandating the FCC to require major TV, newspapers, and radio stations to allot each party and/or candidate free and equal media prime-time to broadcast their message.
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Resources
The Score
This website lists, to the hour, the schedule of both houses of
Congress, along with reports on floor activities and news.
Weapons
of Mass Deception
Book by Sheldon Rampton & John Stauber
examines the use of propaganda in the build up to the Iraq War.
What
is the SPP?
The Security and Prosperity Partnership is an overarching and little
known initiative by both U.S. government and corporations dealing
with security, energy and agribusiness autonomy.
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