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Vietnam: New Round of Arrests Target Democracy Activists (AlertNet) Source: Human Rights Watch (New York, September 12, 2008) ? Human Rights Watch condemned a crackdown on democracy activists in Vietnam this week, coinciding with the visit of US Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte for ... Freedom of Press 'crucial for democracy' (Gulf Daily News) Freedom of the Press is an indispensible element for democracy to flourish in Bahrain, Information Minister Jehad Bukamal stressed last night. College presents speakers for Democracy Days (St. Charles Journal) St. Charles Community College will sponsor its eighth annual Democracy Days event Sept. 15-18 with free seminars on current topics such as Islam, presidential elections, women's representation in government, and the June 2008 U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the right to keep and bear arms. Flipping electronic democracy the bird (The Globe and Mail) It seems that online participatory democracy is out, unless it's the kind of participation that involves your wallet 'World concerned about threats to SA's democracy' (SABC News) Thami Dickson Speaking on the sidelines of a United Nations Summit on financing development in New York, Finance Minister Trevor Manuel warned that the world is concerned with the increasing political threats from influential individuals on South Africa's institutions of democracy. The paradoxes of democracy (Philippine Daily Inquirer) MANILA, Philippines?If there is a country in Southeast Asia whose politics has been as vibrant as ours, that country has to be Thailand. The parallelisms in the political saga of these two countries over the last 20 years are truly amazing. ?Obasanjo Was Against Democracy? (This Day) Olubadan of Ibadan, Oba Samuel Odulana yesterday passed a damning verdict on the past administration of Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, saying democracy never improved between 1999 and 2007 when the former leader was in power. Power of the People Fights Democracy in Thai Protests (New York Times) While they seem like a ?people power? revolution, protests in Thailand are more like a counterrevolution by the establishment against the rising electoral power of the mostly rural poor. Audio: Mozilla's Frank Hecker on Politics 2.0, Open Source, and Participatory Democracy (O'Reilly Media) O'Reilly News interviews Mozilla's Frank Hecker at Personal Democracy Forum 2008 in New York City. In this 25 minute interview you'll hear Frank Hecker talking about Mozilla's mission and structure, as well as his own views on how open source could provide a model for involving citizens in participatory democracy. Valdehuesa: All we have is a caricature of democracy (Sun Star) TO INSTITUTIONALIZE true democracy, it is important to ensure that it is operative at the grassroots, the primal base of a political system, whence emanates state sovereignty and all government authority. |
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