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Tomorrow is the day! I implore you to rise early and cast your ballot with a brave heart and best intentions. Suffrage is our right and also our duty as citizens in the grand American Experiment!
However, as you step out of your booth remember that voting too is only a step. To demand accountability and transparency from our officials. To stay informed and active in our communities. To fearlessly broach the grand issues of our time; with allies and opposition alike. Here! Here is the real meat of self-governance. Remember these solemn duties and carry them with you into the street after voting!
To vote is grand but it is only the first step in our shared endeavor. Meager steps must become mighty strides; our 223 year marathon of republican self-governance must continue!
5 November, 2012
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Hey guys. Here is the turnout for Give A Shit Happy Hour at Cole’s tonight. Not bad eh? #ChicagoVotes #democracy #ColesChicago (Taken with Instagram)
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This firm’s redesign of Wikipedia (and the WikiMedia family) is REALLY making my day.
8 August, 2012
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Oh stop it Sue.
Friendly reminder that Wikipedia is a non-profit donor-dependent vanguard for the democratization and distribution of all human knowledge.
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The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
—Plato
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We’ve got the message,” she added. “But my college kid, the baby sitters, the nails ladies — everybody who’s got the right to vote — they don’t understand what’s going on. I just think if you’re lower income — one, you’re not as educated, two, they don’t understand how it works, they don’t understand how the systems work, they don’t understand the impact.
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The best quotes from guests at Romney’s Hamptons fundraisers.
[via LA Times]
(via theatlantic)
Our plutocratic lords speak! Silly poor people possibly voting for their own interests and not “understanding” the system rigged against them.
(via absurdlakefront)
ataxiwardance: Un. Be. Liev. Able.
9 July, 2012
Sourced from The Atlantic
Originally from theatlantic
Reblogged from absurdlakefront
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Thousands of protesters marched through the Mexican capital on Saturday, July 7 against President-elect Enrique Peña Nieto, accusing him of buying votes and paying off TV networks for support.
8 July, 2012
Reblogged from thepeoplesrecord
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Hong Kong protests - in pictures
THE GUARDIAN - Fifteen years after British colonial rule ended and China regained control of the city, tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets in the annual pro-democracy march. Protesters chanted slogans against new Hong Kong Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying just hours after he was sworn in.
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Although a majority of the Senate voted to repeal tax breaks for the big five oil companies, the 51-47 vote fell short of the 60 needed.
Hahaha. I love how achieving Cloture (3/5th of the full Senate) is now functionally equivalent with a majority. GO DEMOCRACY.
30 March, 2012
Sourced from thinkprogress.org
Originally from think-progress
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(Mother Jones) —By Paul Abowd | Wed Feb. 15, 2012 3:00 AM PST
“We haven’t seen anything this severe anywhere else in the country,” says Charles Monaco, a spokesman for the Progressive States Network, a New York-based advocacy group. “There’s been nothing in other states where a budget measure overturns the democratic vote.” Williams says emergency managers are able to enact draconian policies that would cost most city officials their jobs: “They couldn’t get elected if they tried.”
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With an indefinite term and a city salary of $150,000, Schimmel doesn’t answer to anyone but the governor, at whose pleasure he serves. The city council can no longer make decisions but still calls meetings, which are routinely packed with angry residents. Asked by radio station WJR if the emergency-manager law hands power over to a “dictator,” Schimmel sighed, “I guess I’m the tyrant in Pontiac, then, if that’s the way it is.”
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Pontiac is not Schimmel’s first clean-up job. In 2000, he was named the emergency manager of Hamtramck, where he served for six years. In 1986, a judge appointed him to oversee Ecorse’s finances after the city landed in state receivership; he stepped in and privatized city services. Today, the city is back in debt, and back under state management. Schimmel concedes that the privatization strategy can backfire, but he blames inept local government. “If you don’t have an overseer of the contractor, privatization can be much more expensive than in-house services,” he explains.15 February, 2012
Tagged as Michigan tyranny class warfare class antagonism democracy economics
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