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In the News (Thu 17 Dec 09)

  
  Is Politics the Answer?
The election is now over, and the winner was a candidate with a clear history of support for expanding government.
The fact that these two candidates paid nothing more than lip service to this principle is bad; that the vast majority of my countrymen appeared not to notice is equally troubling.
Maybe trying to form political parties and elect political candidates is a waste of time at this point.
usabig.com /autonomist/articles2/politics.html   (927 words)

  
 Puerto Rico - Printer-friendly - MSN Encarta
The Autonomists desired self-government for Puerto Rico in internal matters while maintaining Puerto Rico’s close association with Spain.
The Autonomist Party decided to try to align itself with the Spanish Liberal Party, one of Spain’s two mainstream parties, to achieve Puerto Rican self-government.
Largely because of these economic problems, the PPD candidate was defeated, and the candidate of the New Progressive Party (PNP), Carlos Romero Barceló, was elected governor in 1976.
encarta.msn.com /text_761562626___36/Puerto_Rico.html   (5517 words)

  
 The Autonomist's Notebook
The Autonomist's Notebook is a semi-satirical collection of aphorisms, epigrams, and comments on politics, philosophy, and religion.
They are meant primarily for the edification and entertainment of autonomists as pleasant reminders of the clear and essential principles by which we live our lives and which make them worth living.
The autonomist is not interested in changing the world, or society, or anything he is not directly responsible for.
theautonomist.com /autonomist/antbk.html   (6947 words)

  
 Politics and Culture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Rather than establishing some pure filiation, my impulse is toward a dynamic theoretical rekombination that allows us to break through the endless array of walls we face in the everyday practices of overcoming the immiserating and degrading reality of global capital.
Powers, signifying forms of domination, forms of subjection, which function locally, for example, in the workshop, in the army,[etc].In sum, these are local forms, regions of power, that have their own form of functioning, their procedures and techniques.
The antipathy among autonomists for the PCI cannot be understated.
aspen.conncoll.edu /politicsandculture/page.cfm?key=259   (2427 words)

  
 The Gleaner/La Source
As a candidate for the ADQ, De Martin likens his role to that of a coach working to keep people informed and eager to participate in local development.
As a right-of-centre autonomist party, the ADQ propose a rigorous approach to reform both fiscal and economic issues while promoting a progressive pluralist vision regarding social issues.
The ADQ was formed in 1994 after members of the Liberal party in Quebec defected to create their own party after the defeat of the Charlottetown Accord, which proposed reforms to the Canadian constitution that would have expanded powers for Quebec and the other provincial governments.
www.journallavoix.net /tgh/edition272006/articles.asp?article_id=136103   (823 words)

  
 Pacific Magazine: FRENCH POLYNESIA: Autonomist Leader Elected Assembly Speaker
Although this was a major political upset for the government of French Polynesia President Oscar Temaru, Schyle strongly insisted after the assembly vote, "I will not accept a motion of censure today." He added, "The population needs time to integrate with the change".
Schyle was one of three candidates for the one-year post of assembly speaker.
Gaston Tong Sang, 56, the mayor of Bora Bora, was the candidate of the pro-autonomy, pro-France political party led by former French Polynesia President Gaston Flosse.
www.pacificmagazine.net /news/2006/04/14/french-polynesia-autonomist-leader-elected-assembly-speaker   (330 words)

  
 cyRev Online Journal
The object is not to simply demand more resources from the state, but to occupy autonomist institutional positions that democratize decision-making power over social wealth.
This is vitally important, wherein autonomist space creates new confidence and self-awareness that propels people to become agents of change and consciously build a historic bloc of popular forces.
In part it is similar to worker councils or soviets that appeared in the early stages of previous socialist revolutions, before these grassroots structures became absorbed by the state.
www.net4dem.org /cyrev/archive/editorials/Jerry/jerry_editorial.htm   (2543 words)

  
 Confederates from the Hetman State "ДЕНЬ"
Of course, the autonomists sought above all to establish their own rights, but they considered their efforts useful to the Ukrainian state and the Ukrainian people as a whole.
The autonomists did not act on an individual basis; we know that a group of patriotic intellectuals became active in Novhorod-Siversky at the turn of the 19th century.
A considerably smaller part of the Ukrainian intellectual nobility took a principled stand in opposition to pro-Russian aristocratic circles and formed a patriotic group of autonomists that was active in the 1780s and 1790s.
www.day.kiev.ua /137499   (2407 words)

  
 Daniel Cohn-Bendit Summary
He was also accused of not giving to the French party the percentage of income that all MEPs and other elected members are supposed to give to their party, although the party had officially agreed to exempt him before his first election in France.
In February 2004, in the context of the preparation of his electoral campaign and in the wider context of the final governmental drafting of the text, he led the foundation of the European Green Party in Rome.
Fischer had directly participated to the drafting as German minister of foreign affairs, he was considered one of the candidates for the new role of "European minister of foreign affairs" evoked in the text, and his speech was the keynote of the event.
www.bookrags.com /Daniel_Cohn-Bendit   (2707 words)

  
 Dan Miodownik: Cultural Differences and Economic Incentives
Along similar lines, McCrone (1998) describes the rise of support for Scottish autonomist and separatist agendas in part as a reaction to the economic development policies of the conservative governments in the 1980s.
A swapout candidate is the identity with the smallest count among the agents' nonactive identities (i.e., all excluding the active identity):
If a discard candidate and an acquire candidate have been defined and the count for the acquire candidate is equal to or larger than seven, the agent discards the candidate identity and activates the acquired identity.
jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk /9/4/2.html   (9779 words)

  
 2008 Nevada Caucus presidential candidates: Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John Edwards, John McCain, Rudy Giuliani, ...
At age 16 Hillary Rodham campaigned for Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater and was president of the Wellesley College Chapter of the College Republicans.
In the late 60's she changed her point of view and became a Democrat.
His story includes a African father who was born in Kenya and was a goat herder and a Caucasian mother born in the heartland, Wichita, Kansas.
www.thenevadacaucus.com /Presidential-candidate-profiles.htm   (1615 words)

  
 Advice for the Politically Lovelorn
Candidates, for the most part, that only their mothers could love.
For a year or so, eight or ten candidates are forced to duke it out, each seeking to prove to the party faithful that only he is the true keeper of the liberal flame.
Of the three candidates running, I thought that Clinton was the least likely to be nominated.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1356346/posts   (1775 words)

  
 More on the Muslim Question:Two Published Records from the Past
However, in the autonomist or secessionist movements of the major minority community, there have been occasions when the relatively small ethnic groups have tended to assume a critical significance.
This could be explained partly in terms of the group cohesiveness of the community and partly in terms of the close rapport established by the Muslim elite with the rest of the electorate such as merchants, traders, professionals, et al.
This was evident from the victory of as many as ten (including the candidate put up by it in the by-election held in September 1977 in the Eastern Province) out of a total of twelve Muslim candidates it had put up.
www.tamilnation.org /forum/sachisrikantha/060128muslims.htm   (9221 words)

  
 Right Wing Nation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
And these are, no doubt, the same people who mistakenly consider a candidate's position on abortion to be all important — when it is, actually, irrelevant.
Therefore, how any candidate feels about the judiciary and judicial powers is one of the most important considerations.
Therefore, a candidate's position on national security, defense, and national sovereignty is one of the most important issues.
rightwingnation.com /index.php/2006/11/22/2487/trackback   (742 words)

  
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The political crisis started in the Ukraine by the denunciations of the opposition candidate Viktor Yuschenko, of general fraud in the presidential elections, is still open.
The supreme court abstained from declaring the victory of the official candidate Viktor Yanucovich, openly suported by Russia.
In the West, where the opposition candidate obtained an outstanding victory, a virtual general strike was declared in the factories, universities and schools, and there are massive occupations of public buildings (although in several cases, this happens with the agreement of the bosses and state officials supporting the opposition candidate).
po.org.ar /english/879ukraine.htm   (913 words)

  
 barriomulas.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Yes, I openly vote for candidates of the PPD but my acknowledgment that Puerto Rico is in fact both a nation and a colony still stands.
I disagree with our economic and social dependency on the United States, shiver in disgust at the U.S.'s behavior on the island, and dream that one day my flag can be hoisted without having to be set beside another's.
autonomist party but maybe half a dozen pro-independence parties and movements.
www.barriomulas.com /blog/archives/2005/09/el_grito_de_lar.shtml   (1208 words)

  
 TEMARU TO SEEK RE-ELECTION IN TAHITI STALEMATE - December 18, 2006
Although the filing deadline for candidates is midnight Saturday (Dec. 16), the only surprise would be if one or more other candidates should file for the election to be held in the French Polynesia Assembly four days before Christmas.
If Thursday's election ends in a tie or neither candidate receives 29 votes, a second vote will be held for the two candidates with the most votes.
The election will be historic because it marks the first time that a candidate, will try and become re-elected after having been twice ousted by a censure motion without having completed his original full five-year mandate.
pidp.eastwestcenter.org /pireport/2006/December/12-18-01.htm   (1258 words)

  
 Canadian Jewish News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Parti vert candidate Robert Leibner finished second — 17,000 votes behind — and the ADQ’s Marcelle Guay was third.
The Parti Québécois’s sole Jewish candidate, Richard Marceau was defeated in the Quebec City riding of Charlesbourg, which went from Liberal to ADQ.
Francoise David in Gouin and Amir Khadir in Mercier, the co-leaders of Québec Solidaire, the left-wing sovereigntist party formed a little more than a year ago that has supported a number of anti-Israel activities, finished in second place in their respective Montreal ridings.
cjnews.com /viewarticle.asp?id=11529   (933 words)

  
 European-Wide Activation of Terrorist Networks Threatens G-8 Summit
Since 2003 he has been free, and celebrated as a guru of the international autonomist movement by glossy magazines and establishment media.
During the last two weeks, both the socialist candidate Ségolène Royal and the neo-con Nicholas Sarkozy have come out strongly in defense of the nation-state, albeit not for the same reasons.
The very day that Negri's interview appeared in Libération, a mob of Autonomists engaged in violent clashes with the police, over the pretext that a man was being checked at the underground station because he had no ticket.
www.larouchepub.com /other/2007/3415euro_terror.html   (1316 words)

  
 The Head Heeb: Blue and white revolution
Although the ADN has pledged to take a neutral stance and is an autonomist rather than a pro-independence coalition, it has recognized that yesterday's vote was a repudiation of Flosse and has indicated that it will "vote white" - i.e., support Temaru or abstain - in the presidential election.
On the other hand, the fact that he will depend on autonomist allies might prevent any radical recriminations.
In addition, the message sent by the voters was ambiguous - in the words of Chirac ally François Bayrou, the election produced "two majorities: a majority for change...
headheeb.blogmosis.com /archives/027647.html   (436 words)

  
 Sinhala Muslim 'Romancing'
Discussions with Tamil leaders and youth in Jaffna as well as elsewhere indicated that the boundaries of the proposed Tamil State encompassed, roughly, the present boundaries of the Northern and Eastern Provinces, having amongst its population a fairly large number of Muslims, particularly in the Eastern Province.
It is noteworthy that five of these candidates were from the Eastern Province – part of the proposed Tamil State.
Two candidates – M.S.Kariapper (Kalmunai) and M.Z.K.M.Kariapper (Pottuvil) – entered the electoral fray under the banner of this organization, but were defeated.
www.sangam.org /taraki/articles/2006/02-02_Sinhala_Muslim_Romancing.php?uid=1488&print=sangam   (9048 words)

  
 The Solid Surfer.com: Guest Contributors
This alone didn’t shock me. What shocked me was that $160 million of those dollars was spent on negative advertising about the candidates opponent as opposed to $17 million spent on advertising what the candidate himself can offer his constituents if voted in.
The candidates bash each other to no end and when one wins they all back the winner in the upcoming election.
The advertising dollars - eight to one on the dollar - with candidates telling us how horrid, terrible, dishonest and crooked their opponents are, is also a reflection of who we are.
thesolidsurfer.typepad.com /the_solid_surfer/guest_contributors/index.html   (7044 words)

  
 ZNet Commentary: Assessing the Latin American Left (part 1)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
One of the great punchlines in politics I was fortunate to hear first-hand, was during a 1989 interview for Pacifica Radio with Brazilian presidential candidate Lula.
In turn, former PRD leader and Mexico mayor Rosario Robles is mired in scandal because of videotaped bribery and gambling incidents that also implicate Lopez Obrador?s key aides.
Bolivia is another country with strong autonomist - and increasingly indigenous-led - movements, which came to the world?s attention with the April 2000 water war in the city of Cochabamba.
www.zmag.org /sustainers/content/2004-05/11bond.cfm   (1913 words)

  
 CONFLICTING VIEWS IN TAHITI OVER FRENCH PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE - November 22, 2006
Jean-Christophe Bouissou, a rightist political leader in Tahiti, told daily French language newspaper La Dépêche de Tahiti (LDT): "In my opinion, an eventual election of Ségolène Royal would be very difficult for French Polynesia because of the agreement which she made with Oscar Temaru," Tahiti's president and leader of French Polynesia's biggest independence political party.
The two other French Socialist party candidates - former Finance Minister Dominique Strauss-Kahn and former Prime Minister Laurent Fabius - received 23.81 percent and 14.29 percent, respectively, of Tahiti's Socialist votes, compared with 21 percent and 19 percent in France.
Although that candidate is not scheduled to be chosen until January, the favorite is French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, who is also current leader of the UMP, the Union for a Popular Movement conservative governing party.
pidp.eastwestcenter.org /pireport/2006/November/11-22-03.htm   (1010 words)

  
 Political Forums > Yves Seguin to Conservatives?
Apr 15 2005, 04:56 AM By the time it's all said and done August, the CPC could probably run a dog as a candidate and beat Lapierre.
They were followed by the NDP and then the Con candidate.
If he becomes the candidate, would his provincial experience and notoriety be enough to beat the Bloc?
www.mapleleafweb.com /forums/lofiversion/index.php/t3084.html   (1823 words)

  
 Hardt and Negri Counsel the Aristocrats
Instead of targeting state power according to some hopelessly misguided Leninist schema, the emphasis would be on challenging capitalism everywhere at the same time through the power of the "multitudes" rather than workers or peasants.
In some ways, the autonomist rejection of state power at the national level (a poisoned pill according to Hardt-Negri) was a funhouse mirror of the long-standing Marxist insight that socialist revolution must triumph worldwide if it is to have any long-term prospects for success.
Unfortunately, this became transformed into a kind of fuzzy call for revolution everywhere and nowhere in autonomist terms.
www.columbia.edu /~lnp3/mydocs/modernism/hardt_negri2.htm   (1237 words)

  
 WEBCommentary(tm) - An Opportunity for Conservative Senators   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Nearly every senator is a potential presidential candidate and the contest for the 2008 Republican nomination is wide open.
With Rudy Giuliani and John McCain considered front-runners, the GOP field has a void on the right.Conservatives can benefit if senators compete to be their ’08 candidate.
Second, Gramm was able to credibly threaten Dole’s conservative credentials because he was widely considered a top-tier candidate in a way that the senators best-positioned to follow in his footsteps — Sam Brownback, Rick Santorum — are not.
www.webcommentary.com /asp/ShowArticle.asp?id=antlej&date=050716   (793 words)

  
 Informed Comment: 02/01/2005 - 03/01/2005
James Glanz of the NYT discusses separatist or autonomist inclinations in the southern Basra province of Iraq.
Ibrahim Jaafari, the candidate for prime minister of the religious Shiite coalition, met Friday with Grand Ayatollah Sistani,who "blessed" (i.e.
If SCIRI and Dawa vote together, Jaafari, who is the candidate of the more fundamentalist parties, would need 29 votes from elsewhere in the list, assuming the women and other members of their contingents held firm.
www.juancole.com /2005_02_01_juanricole_archive.html   (14312 words)

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