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	Harvard Gazette: Academic turns city into a social experiment
		Mockus, the only son of a Lithuanian artist, burst onto the Colombian political scene in 1993 when, faced with a rowdy auditorium of the school of arts' students, he dropped his pants and mooned them to gain quiet.
		Mockus noted that his administrations were enlightened by academic concepts, including the work of Nobel Prize-winning economist Douglass North, who has investigated the tension between formal and informal rules and how economic development is restrained when those rules clash; and Jürgen Habermas' work on how dialogue creates social capital.
		Mockus - a sterling exemplar of the current vogue in Latin America for "anti-politicians" - says that transforming Bogotá's people and their sense of civic culture was the key to solving many of the city's problems.
	www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/2004/03.11/01-mockus.html (2125 words)

	Antanas Mockus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Antanas Mockus Šivickas (Bogotá, March 25, 1952), is a Colombian mathematician, philosopher, and politician.
		In 2003 Mockus stepped down as mayor, to be replaced by Luis Eduardo Garzón, and took a year's sabbatical, travelling and speaking around the world.
		In November, Mockus made a special trip to the University of Virginia to speak about the use of positive social mechanisms in relation to his tenure as the mayor of Bogotá.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Antanas_Mockus (698 words)

	News -- Mayor of Bogota Speaks About Terrorism in Colombia, U.S.
		Antanas Mockus, current mayor of Bogota, Colombia, was describing the situation in his city as terrorism escalated in the early 1990s, but he may well have been speaking about life in the United States since Sept. 11.
		Mockus served as mayor of Bogota from 1995 to 1998 and is now serving a second, non-consecutive term that will end in 2003.
		Mockus has tried to address the problems of violence on a more social level, implementing alcohol and drug control policies, paying attention to “vulnerable groups” such as indigents, prostitutes and at-risk youth and has focused on “recovery of public space,” aiming to clean and maintain Bogota’s public areas.
	www.thehoya.com /news/110601/news4.cfm (656 words)

	CNN.com - Cleansed of 'sin', former Bogota mayor seeks redemption at polls - October 27, 2000
		BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) -- Antanas Mockus -- the eccentric former mayor of Bogota who once tossed a glass of water in a presidential debate opponent's face and got married in a circus tent full of tigers -- is back.
		Mockus remains determined to make good citizens out of the nearly 7 million inhabitants of this overburdened city, with its hellish traffic, burgeoning population, and high crime and murder rates.
		Mockus proudly notes, for example, that he has participated in dozens of forums and debates without ceding to the temptation to hurl water at others.
	edition.cnn.com /2000/WORLD/americas/10/27/colombia.politics.ap (747 words)

	[Ccpg] The Bogotá Experiment Antanas Mockus READ THIS , AMAZING INSPIRING (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Mockus says that "transforming Bogotá's people and their sense of civic culture was the key to solving many of the city's problems".
		A mathematician and philosopher, Mockus looked around for another big challenge and found it: to be in charge of, as he describes it, "a 6.5 million person classroom." Mockus, who had no political experience, ran for mayor of Bogotá;; he was successful mainly because people in Colombia's capital city saw him as an honest guy.
		Antanas Mockus was a mayor that was aware of the pedagogical potential or cities, and made a conscious effort to educate the citizens of Bogotá; on several issues through creative and imaginative projects.
	www.arashi.com /pipermail/ccpg/2004q1/001294.html (6952 words)

	mockus visit
		Mockus' symbol for a conscientous citizen who raises his/her voices as soon as the civic culture is threatened.
		Antanas Mockus -- the former two-times Alcalde Mayor (prime minister) of the District of Bogotá;, Colombia, and self-appointed candidate for the elections of presidency of Colombia in 2006 -- has achieved this and many other things while he was in charge of the government of the District of Bogotá;.
		Mockus himself has been put on the death lists by the guerillas and the paramilitaries (taz).
	www.uni-konstanz.de /ag-moral/moral/demokratie/mockus-visit.htm (779 words)

	Bogotá: Academic turns city into a social experiment
		Mayor Mockus of Bogotá and his spectacularly applied theory - By María Cristina Caballero, Special to the Harvard News Office Antanas Mockus had just resigned from the top job of Colombian National University.
		A mathematician and philosopher, Mockus looked around for another big challenge and found it: to be in charge of, as he describes it, "a 6.5 million person classroom." Mockus, who had no political experience, ran for mayor of Bogotá; he was successful mainly because people in Colombia's capital city saw him as an honest guy.
		With an educator's inventiveness, Mockus turned Bogotá into a social experiment just as the city was choked with violence, lawless traffic, corruption, and gangs of street children who mugged and stole.
	www.agnt.org /agntdisc2/0000001f.htm (2009 words)

	Bogota: Harmony and Chaos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		BOGOTA - The philosopher and mathematician Antanas Mockus Cívicas, son of Lithuanian immigrants, is in his second three-year term as mayor of the Colombian capital.
		Mockus, 48, known for his irreverence and his unique grasp of ritual and spectacle, left the rectorship of the National University of Colombia for the political sphere, and in 1995 was elected mayor of Bogota for the first time.
		The politician caused some surprise when he held his wedding in a circus tent surrounded by tigers, but the biggest shock was when he resigned from his post as mayor in order to join Noemí Sanín as her running-mate in her bid for the presidency in 1998, which she lost to current President Andrés Pastrana.
	www.tierramerica.net /2001/0318/dialogues.shtml (781 words)

	History of Education: Selected Moments
		Mockus answered: “The lines are not marked on the asphalt, but in the minds of all of us”.
		Antanas Mockus was a mayor that was aware of the pedagogical potential or cities, and made a conscious effort to educate the citizens of Bogotá on several issues through creative and imaginative projects.
		Mockus was Mayor of Bogotá twice, first from 1995 to 1997, and later from 2001 to 2003.
	fcis.oise.utoronto.ca /~daniel_schugurensky/assignment1/1995bogota.html (1250 words)

	Antanas Mockus/Bogota/Colombia/South America/Women's Liberation/Promoting Peace (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Mockus meant the cleansing ceremony to serve both as an apology to disillusioned supporters, and a protest against the forced baptism of Indians by the Catholic Church during their bloody Conquest.
		Mockus designated “car-free days” to encourage the use of public transit and bicycles along more than 200 kilometers of new bike paths.
		Mockus always insisted that he was an educator, not a leader.
	www.willthomas.net /Convergence/Weekly/Antanas_Mockus.htm (1203 words)

	Nonviolence in the Arena
		Mockus, who had no political experience, ran for mayor of Bogotá;.
		Mockus, who finished his second term as mayor this past January, focused on changing hearts and minds, not through preaching, but through artistically creative strategies that employed the power of individual and community disapproval.
		A dramatic indicator of the shift in the attitude of Bogotános during Mockus’s tenure is that, in 2002, the city collected more than three times the revenues it had garnered in 1990.
	www.forusa.org /fellowship/july-aug_05/caballero.html (748 words)

	Plexus Institute
		When Antanas Mockus was first elected mayor of Bogota in 1995, traffic in the streets of Colombia’s capital city was chaotic, lawless and lethal.
		A mathematician and philosopher, Mockus was rector—the top position—at the National University of Colombia before he quit to run for mayor of Bogota.
		Despite Mockus’ popularity and successes in Bogota, and despite the violence, crime, illicit drug trade, and institutional weaknesses that beset the country, most analysts say President Alvaro Uribe is virtually certain to win reelection.
	www.plexusinstitute.org /NewsEvents/News/show.cfm?id=174 (937 words)

	Mayor Mockus' Colombian democracy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		In 1993, Antanas Mockus, a mathematician and philosopher, was rector (head) of the National University of Colombia (CNU) in Bogotá;.
		He resigned from the post and ran a successful campaign to be the city's mayor, dubbing himself 'Super Citizen' and introducing radical and often humorous initiatives that transformed Bogotá; in his two terms.
		When his second mayoral term ended in 2003, Mockus, who is of Lithuanian descent, stepped down from the post.
	www.admin.cam.ac.uk /news/dp/2005052401 (297 words)

	americas.org - Transport, Farm Strikes End (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Union leaders announced late on August 8 that Bogotá bus and taxi drivers had called a truce in a week-long strike against Mayor Antanas Mockus’ plan to reduce traffic and pollution by restricting public transport.
		CGTD leader Julio Roberto Gómez said Mockus would have until August 13 to come up with a satisfactory proposal; otherwise “there will be much stronger actions, like a national strike of transport workers,” he warned.
		Mockus has reportedly held up negotiations by insisting that the unions accept his authority and end the strike.
	www.americas.org /item_7090 (341 words)

	La Raza - Antanas Mockus recibe doctorado honoris causa en universidad de París (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		En su discurso, Mockus, de 52 años, criticó indirectamente el plan de paz del gobierno de Alvaro Uribe con los paramilitares así como los intercambios de presos por secuestrados a manos de la guerrilla y pidió un término medio entre la impunidad y la generosidad.
		Mockus insistió en que Colombia no puede vivir de nuevo la situación de 1991, cuando hizo "concesiones atroces", refiriéndose a la no-extradicion de narcotraficantes que acabaron "presionando y amenazando después a los jueces de la manera más infame".
		Ante el claustro universitario de Saint-Denis, a las afueras de París, Mockus recordó que la vida de un colombiano sigue valiendo "treinta veces menos" que la de un francés...
	www.laraza.com /news.php?nid=14840 (311 words)

	Snarkmarket: Mime Control
		Antanas Mockus was, until recently, the mayor of Bogotá;, Colombia.
		Mockus says he was inspired by the work of Douglass North, a Nobel Prize-winning economist, and I believe it.
		The stomping grounds of Robin Sloan and Matt Thompson (e-mail us both), serving up links and dish on the happenings of the day -- or back in the day -- or the days to come, whatever we're in the mood for.
	snarkmarket.com /blog/snarkives/snarkpolicy/mime_control (458 words)

	El alcalde Antanas Mockus predica pero no practica : Indymedia Colombia
		Mockus objeta disposiciones aprobadas por el Concejo que obligaba a los funcionarios de la administración a pagar sus consumos de telefonía celular y el combustible de los vehículos.
		El Alcalde Antanas Mockus objetó el proyecto de acuerdo No. 155 de 2002 "por el cual se establece el presupuesto anual de rentas e ingresos y de gastos e inversiones del distrito capital, para la vigencia fiscal comprendida entre el 1 de enero y el 31 de diciembre de 2003 y se dictan otras disposiciones".
		Y en su estilo marcadamente autoritario y arrogante Mockus ni siquiera esperó que el Concejo analizara las objeciones al presupuesto, sino que de una vez las envió al Tribunal Administrativo de Cundinamarca.
	colombia.indymedia.org /mail.php?id=1072 (426 words)

	Gift Hub: Antanas Mockus: Gifts in Kind
		Some clowns are corporate chattel; others, down through the centuries, still run free.
		Mockus shows that, for the gifted, there is life in democracy yet.
		Democracy tends to confer a greater appearance of legitimacy and may have the potential to resolve conflicts without killing.
	www.gifthub.org /2004/12/antanus_mockus_.html (265 words)

	[larynandjanel] - Our cities need more traffic mimes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Traffic mimes were one of his unique solutions to promote civic engagement, in this case to combat (by mockery) dangerous drivers and pedestrians who disobeyed the rules.
		(Read the article for other examples of Mockus’ creative approach to mayorhood on topics ranging from water conservation to the sacredness of life).
		What we really need are leaders who communicate "through symbols, humor, and metaphors" instead of dried up politic-speak, leaders who can create fresh and innovative ideas to educate instead of leaning so heavily on the party line and the status quo.
	www.larynandjanel.com /blog/our_cities_need_more_traffic_mimes.html (321 words)

	Profile of Antanas Mockus, former mayor of Bogata, and his innovative governing techniques (kottke.org) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Profile of Antanas Mockus, former mayor of Bogata, and his innovative governing techniques (kottke.org)
		Profile of Antanas Mockus, former mayor of Bogata, and his innovative governing techniques.
		All content by Jason Kottke (contact me) unless otherwise noted, with some restrictions on its use.
	www.kottke.org /remainder/04/12/7175.html (74 words)

	Los Pueblos Indígenas y la Candidatura de Antanas Mockus : Indymedia Colombia
		Los Pueblos Indígenas y la Candidatura de Antanas Mockus
		En días recientes, la organización Alianza Social Indígena lanzó como su candidato a la presidencia a Antanas Mockus.
		Tal es la doctrina antipopular y antiindígena de Mockus que algunos de los propios jefes indígenas defienden.
	colombia.indymedia.org /mail.php?id=35908 (414 words)

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