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Editorial
Last fall we focused on the protests in Stuttgart, Germany, that saw one hundred fifty thousand people taking to the streets in a mid-sized state capital in South West Germany. The protests started with a few
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A TIME OF CRISIS IS A MOMENT OF CHANGE Myrto Ioannidou, Living at a Time of Change Diana
Collins, War, devastation, inflation,
huge budget deficits – the price for what?
THE CRISIS OF DEMOCRACY Carla Lomax, They don’t represent us! Johanna Karbe, Innerparteiliche Demokratie: Wie real ist sie heute? [Democracy in Parties - How Real Is It? (German)] J. Weidenfels, Die katholische Soziallehre, die »Wirtschaft«, die repräsentative Demokratie und die Partizipation [Catholic Social Doctrine, the Economy, Representative Democracy and Participation (in German = G)] Jack
Kovacs,
Why We Need A Democracy Movement in the United States
THE QUEST FOR PARTICIPATION or
THE DESIRE TO BE HEARD, TO SPEAK OUT,
Vox
populi, Ägypten ist ein Beispiel!
Spanien ist ein Beispiel! Ohne mehr Demokratie ist nichts möglich!
Jaime
Rosdolsky, Real
Democracy, Yes!
Hans Sommerfeld, Der Paukenschlag, der die Tassen zum Klirren bringt [Like a Thunderbolt That Is Shattering Window Panes... (G)] John
Martinez, Yes, we can!
WE, THE PEOPLE John Ranta, Über demokratische ‚leader’ und was sie uns bedeuten könnten [On Democratic Leaders, And What They Might Mean To Us (G)] Peter Light, Rejecting the Ballot Wayne
Pounds, Pearl Harbor, Oklahoma
Leo Lambert, Von den verschiedenen Weisen, die letzte Zeile eines Gedichts zu lesen [On Different Ways of Reading the Last Two Lines of a Poem (G)] Jochen Jakobsen, Vom Gemeinwohl, dem schöpferischen Potential der Menschen, und ihrer Verantwortung für das Lebendige [About the Common Good, the Creative Potential of Human Beings, and Their Responsibility for What Is Alive (G)] Jo Jankowicz, A Few Observations on Some Socio-Psychological Effects of the Crisis Alicia Zukofsky, Knowledge Is Not Understanding: A Plea for Hope, and for Trust in People Jonathan Fabre, Was können wir aus der zunehmenden Tendenz, sich bei Wahlen zu enthalten, lernen? Welche vernünftige Alternative gibt es? [What Can We Learn From the Tendency to Abstain from Voting? Which Reasonable Alternatives Do Exist ? (G)] Barbara Lohfeld, Lob der Gleichheit [In Praise of Equality(G)] Angela
Mohr / Lisa Mohr / Jan Kowalski,
Wir
wollen leben [Longing for A Life That's
Worth Its Name (G)]
TECHNOLOGIES OF GOVERNMENT: REPRESSION IS AN ANSWER THAT WILL FAIL IN THE LONG RUN Karen
Koch, Die
Demokratie-Bewegungen und die Gewalt der Staatsmacht [Democracy
Movements and the Violence of the State (G)]
WHICH WAY NOW? Alfred
Mossmann, Die Demokratie- Bewegung‚
partizipative Demokratie und die politische Klasse. Wohin geht die Entwicklung
und wer wird sie bestimmen?
J. Weidenfels und Joan Chen, Schaltet sie ab! Nein zur Atomkraft! [Turn 'em off! No to Nuclear Power (G)] Andreas Weiland, Between Hope and Pessimism Gerhard Kornblum, Für ein breites Bündnis! Die Demokratiebewegung in Mitteleuropa muss Trennendes überwinden und parteipolitische Sektierer in die Schranken weisen! [For A Broad Alliance! The Democracy Movement in Central Europe Must Overcome What Separates and Calm Down Supporters Who Try To Divide Us Along Party Lines (G)] Maggy Hoss, A Few Thoughts About An All Too Imperfect Democracy, and What We Can Do About It Joan
Chen et al., Für eine ALLIANZ FÜR DEMOKRATIE!
[An
Alliance for Democracy, Yes! (G)]
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This issue was edited by Joan Chen
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Democracy real YA!
Manifesto of Democracia real YA! backup
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DemocraciarealYa
Sevilla
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Suite 101. net
Carolina Castañeda López, La "Spanish Revolution" y los movimientos sociales en la red backup copy Lola Romero Gil, Movimientos ciudadanos, la red se mueve backup
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Lola
Romero Gil, "Una
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Al Ahram Weekly
Galal Nassar, "The Arab Spring and the crisis of the elite" backup
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Al MasryAlyoum.com
Mohamed
Azouz, Egypt govt mulls raising workers' incentives in bid to thwart
Ahmad Fouad Najem, "Forbidden" backup
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We won't pay for
Giessener
Ztg. on the Stuttgart demonstration
HOW A SIT-IN BY
NY
Times
CHECK THIS: CALL FOR PAPERS "Can democratization and a change of our 'life style' help us cope with the ecological, economic and social crisis?" THERE ARE MANY WAYS ONE MIGHT DEAL WITH THIS QUESTION IT IS POSSIBLE TO FOCUS ON ON ONE ASPECT [No fixed dead line, at present]
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