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September 16, 2012 By gmoke

Ever since the selection of 2000, the rudiments of US democracy have been under attack. We still haven't dealt with the multitudinous problems of electronic voting machines and now we have a concerted attack on registration and voting by … [Read more...]

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Filed Under: User Tagged With: aclu, common-cause, democracy, dscc, elections, electronic voting machines, voting-rights

Democracy Technology

January 25, 2012 By gmoke

A Facebook group called Upgrade Democracy is collecting a list of "teams/organizations working on technology-powered solutions to the systemic problems of governance/group decision-making." They want help in expanding the list … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: democracy, elections, media, politics, social-media, technology

The Democracy Bucket — more demand ideas for Occupy

November 2, 2011 By Avi Green

Blue Mass Group's Bob posted recently some possible demands for the Occupy movement.  As I see it, there's a lot that needs fixing right now to get back America of FDR's New Deal and Johnson's Great Society (and even Reagan's tax rates, not … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: citizens-united, democracy, Occupy, voting-rights

Resist Massachusetts hack-a-palooza

July 2, 2011 By empowerment

Hey all you One Party Massachusetts fans, have you heard the one about the Dem hack who plays his cards right and ends up with a cushy job for life? No, not your cousin, this OTHER Dem hack who plays his cards right and ends up with a cushy … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: corruption, democracy, hackery, one-party-rule, representation

Massachusetts Redistricting Olympics

June 29, 2011 By creightt

Common Cause Massachusetts is hosting a Redistricting Olympics this summer. We will be taking citizen drawn Congressional, State House, and State Senate maps all summer, evaluating them, declaring a winner, giving out prizes and submitting … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: common-cause, democracy, redistricting

Suzanne Bump has it right!

April 8, 2011 By AmberPaw

Suzanne Bump, the new Auditor has it right in deciding to audit the so-called "tax expenditure budget" The auditor's office carried out an initial review of 91 of the 203 programs in the tax expenditures budget that have significant … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: budget, democracy, room-348, susanne-bump, tax-expenditure-budget, transparency

Joanna Weiss, we wish it were so easy to “sign up” union members

February 27, 2011 By cccc

In todays Globe, Joanna Weiss has in interesting editorial about public perception of unions. See here: http://www.boston.com/bostongl... She qoutes a recent Pew survey that shows that a majority of the public does not support unions. This … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: democracy, labor, middle-class, unions

Defending the American Dream in Wisconsin

February 22, 2011 By bmass

Those public servants assembled in Madison, and everyone gathered at our State House, deserve better than this.  We must not allow them to be made scapegoats in an agenda to hobble America's labor movement.  State governments will … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: american-dream, democracy, labor, middle-class, unions, wisconsin

On The View From Egypt, Part Six, Or, Let’s Review Where We Are

January 31, 2011 By fake-consultant

You know, David, there, there is a joke that went around Egypt for many years about Mubarak that he was on his death bed and an Egyptian delegation came to see him of the people.  The nurse came in, said, "Mr.  President, the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: #jan25, #jan28, democracy, egypt, human-rights, international-relations, middle-east, politics, random

On The View From Egypt, Part Five, Or, The Emergency Is Here

January 28, 2011 By fake-consultant

"My grandfather knew the exact time of the exact day of the exact year that he would die." "Wow, what an evolved soul! How did it come to him?" "The judge told him." --From "Plato and a Platypus Walk Into A Bar...", Thomas Cathcart and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: #jan25, #jan28, democracy, egypt, human-rights, international-relations, law-and-lawyers, middle-east, politics

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