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Topic: Citizens Movement for Change

	Welcome To The Official Site of Akbayan Citizens' Action Party"
		The moving force behind the anti-dictatorship struggle--concerned citizens and progressive groups--has been relegated to the periphery of decision-making and policy implementation.
		Despite the dynamism of Philippine movements, formal institutions of democracy remained in the hands of the few and the wealthy.
		It is Akbayan's hope that through citizens' participation in policy-making, the country's economic environment would become accessible to the general population and not just big corporations.
	www.akbayan.org /about.htm (772 words)

	Humanscape Features Oct 2002- A city and its people - Bangalore-based Janaagraha, a citizens' movement for ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Citizens could be seen all over Bangalore during February and March 2002, with a notepad in their hands, measuring their roads with tape measures, counting potholes, and inspecting drains and culverts.
		Citizens’ groups were then facilitated to get together ward-wise and prioritise the works that they wished to be taken up in their wards.
		Citizens are now asked to contact the BMP engineering department to get the details of the tenders: whether the works have been estimated, tenders called, tenders approved and work orders given to contractors.
	www.humanscape.org.cob-web.org:8888 /Humanscape/new/oct02/cleaningupthegardencity.htm (3731 words)

	FOXNews.com - Immigrant Voters Could Change Election Landscapes - You Decide 2004
		WASHINGTON — A scattered movement growing across the country would buck decades of conventional wisdom and allow non-citizens the right to vote in local elections, a move that proponents say would give immigrants the ability to directly impact government in their communities.
		Efforts are also under way across the country to change local and state laws.
		In Takoma Park, for example, where about 77 percent of the population of 18,000 is of voting age, about 450 non-citizens have registered to vote, and turnout among this group is typically low, Richie said.
	www.foxnews.com /story/0,2933,120080,00.html (950 words)

	TomPaine.com - A Citizens' Independence Movement
		Citizens can press local and state governments to pass laws challenging corporate personhood.
		Citizens can further such efforts by learning ways corporate legal privileges strip us of the power to stop corporations from doing harm in our communities.
		Properly framed, these situations are opportunities to enlist citizens of widely varying views to work for vital structural changes.
	www.tompaine.com /articles/a_citizens_independence_movement.php (1579 words)

	Regional Leaders of the Citizens Movement for a Federal Philippines discussed Charter Change, Veranstaltungen, ...
		Over 30 Regional leaders of the Citizens Movement for a Federal Philippines from all over the country spent their weekends on July 2-4, 2004 at the Lopez Center, Antipolo, Metro Manila to discuss and plan CMFP’s strategies and programs taking note of the new Arroyo Administration.
		The group, which has been advocating for federalism as the best alternative solution to the peace and development problems in the country have acknowledged that the challenge is getting tougher especially now that the President has openly pronounced her commitment for charter change.
		The Citizens Movement for a Federal Philippines has been a partner of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation even before the Charter Change Debate.
	www.kas.de /proj/home/events/69/1/veranstaltung_id-12116/index.html (167 words)

	CHILE: Citizens Movement Calls for New Constitution
		Citizens' Pact for the Constitution We Want, the seminar organised last week in Santiago, was also attended by respected jurists who detailed the weaknesses of the current Chilean constitution.
		For her part, Ximena Valdés, director of the Centre for Women's Studies, believes it is crucial for the constitution to reflect the changes undergone in Chilean families in recent decades, particularly the boom in the number of single-parent families - primarily headed by women - and the massive entry of women into the paid workforce.
		Lawyer Eric Palma, a representative of the non-governmental Chile a la Carta Movement for a Constituent Assembly, told IPS that "thanks to the recent election of deputies and senators from the PS and PPD, which are characterised by their commitment to citizens' rights, there is greater hope of constitutional reform now than ever before."
	www.ipsnews.net /news.asp?idnews=31512 (1309 words)

	Movement as Network: Movement as Network: A Synopsis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Fragmentation of the Movement: Today’s environmental organizations are so disconnected that they are barely recognizable as a movement – particularly by those within the movement itself.
		While a small number of citizens do have a particular affinity for specific issues, most are frustrated by the movement’s failure to address their more holistic understanding and concerns around the environment.
		Citizens who do join the environmental movement are scattered across hundreds of tiny membership bases within issue-specific organizations.
	www.movementasnetwork.org /001729.html (1556 words)

	WorldChanging: Tools, Models and Ideas for Building a Bright Green Future: The Chinese Environmental Movement
		If China is going to turn away from the disastrous path it has so far followed, it needs a strong citizens' movement advocating for change.
		So this report on the health of environmental advocacy in China should be of direct and compelling interest to us all.
		The movement has not only grown rapidly in recent years, but it has learned to skillfully navigate the political landscape.
	www.worldchanging.com /archives/004049.html (290 words)

	TNI Homepage Susan George (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Whether you are a seasoned campaigner and confirmed "world-changer", someone who wonders how you can join in the growing citizen's movement, or someone who simply wants to know what this movement is about, this book is for you.
		Shifting the balance of power in favour of citizens takes a hard-headed understanding of globalisation, knowledge of the adversaries who prevent change, intelligent organisation, and exciting yet practical proposals and strategic thinking.
		In clear and straightforward prose, drawing on her thirty years of scholarship in the service of social change as well as decades of participation in social movements, George cautions against pitfalls like violence or basing one's actions on all-too-common illusions.
	www.tni.org /books/autre-e.htm (230 words)

	Creating an Unconventional Movement for Change in Honduras
		The fact that Hondurans commonly joke about ineptitude, corruption and greed within their government, the unprofessionalism of their military, and the lack of modern, diversified and internationally competitive of businesses, means that there is at least an element of truth to it all.
		Besides, plain common sense tells you that any individual, any family, any company, or any country is infinitely better off when they don’t have to rely on someone or something else for their well-being.
		It would be a rather unconventional movement we would be creating to affect change in our country.
	www.marrder.com /hondo1/_charity/000002b9.htm (1758 words)

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		On October 24,1998, in Wavre, the first General Assembly for CMC Citizens approved the basic texts of the movement following a pulic debate in which every citizen from Wallony and Brussels was urged to participate and which went on for months.
		The Citizens' Movement for Change was thus no longer a mere movement for ideas.
		The Labour Party was established in 1900 - originally as the Labour Representation Committee - to fight for representation for the Labour movement trade unions and socialist societies &endash; in Parliament.
	www.chez.com /vipsinfo/europe4e.htm (759 words)

	Alabama Citizens for Constitutional Reform
		Individuals are encouraged to form Legislative Action Teams in their districts and commit to contacting their legislators to vote in favor of legislation that will be offered in the 2007 Legislative Session on the question of calling a constitutional convention.
		Celebrating the chance for Alabamians to vote Nov. 7 on whether to allow a convention of citizens to write a new state constitution.
		The latter finding is especially important, as it reflects the indefatigable efforts of anti-reform forces to paint the constitutional reform movement as a scheme to raise taxes.
	www.constitutionalreform.org /index.shtml (2146 words)

	A Daily Briefing on Iran
		In fact as far as the Iranians are concerned nothing has significantly changed in the last 27 years of the Islamic republic’s tyrannical rule, regardless of which faction has been in charge.
		He said that the bloodbath slaughter of leader of the Pan-Iranianist movement, Darioush Forouhar and his wife Parvaneh – whose breasts were even sliced off – in their home, as well as the secret murders of journalists and writers like Mohammad Mokhtari and Mohammad-Jafar Pouyandeh, are not only justified but necessary.
		I think it is in that context that economic sanctions could, in fact, work not just to curtail the regime, but put an end to the entire problem by eliminating the regime once and for all.
	regimechangeiran.blogspot.com (9008 words)

	CITIZENS ALERT working for humane law enforcement
		Citizens Alert fosters mutual respect between police and the public by involving people in productive interaction with the police.
		Citizens Alert provides information and assistance to victims of police abuse and harassment, makes appropriate referrals, and offers to accompany persons filing complaints.
		As one of the few police accountability groups in the nation, Citizens Alert is a consultant on law enforcement issues.
	citizensalert.org (407 words)

	4Cs TRUST::.Kenya Tuitakayo
		The Citizens’ Coalition for Constitutional Change (4Cs Trust) is a national organization in popular constitutional reform, democratic constitutional governance and the rule of law.
		To work towards the creation and maintenance of a new constitutional order in Kenya that will guarantee a better society desired by all citizens through a democratic process that is popular, open, participatory and inclusive.
		The Citizens’ Coalition for Constitutional Change (4Cs Trust) is a national organization in popular constitutional reform, democratic constitutional governance and the rule of law, managed by firmly committed and capable professionals and community level volunteers.
	www.4cskenyatuitakayo.org (147 words)

	The Pew Center For Civic Journalism
		Civic journalism helped to change citizens, their communities and journalism itself.
		Just one in 5 of the nation's top female editors said they definitely wanted to move up in the news industry, and almost 1 in 2 (45%) are looking to change newsrooms or leave the business altogether.
		But this 2002 report by the Pew Center and API finds that the great divide in newsrooms is not between women and men, but between two subsets of women: the Career-Confident and Career-Conflicted.
	www.pewcenter.org (253 words)

	Movement For Change - Freedom has a Cost (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Those are the words of retired newsman Walter Cronkite from a March Huffington Post blog.
		Some argue that Cronkite single-handedly sparked the movement against the Vietnam War — when he speaks, people listen.
		What she has found has been a troubling pattern of behavior: Cops threatening citizens with arrest and confiscating cameras, especially over the last eight months.
	www.movementforchange.org (425 words)

	United for Peace : Index (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The nuclear test is a direct reaction to the Bush administration’s policy of shunning negotiations and threatening North Korea with war and regime change.
		It's up to all of us to make the peace movement visible in our communities every day and to inspire others to get involved.
		Our new "What are you doing to end the war?" t-shirt asks a provocative question to those who want the U.S. to leave Iraq but haven't yet translated their opposition into action.
	www.unitedforpeace.org (1420 words)

	Global Citizens for Change / Links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		An award winning publication it reports on world poverty and inequality issues, exposing the injustices which exist between rich and poor nations and campaigning for radical global change.
		There is a section called Radically Canadian that provides descriptions of and links to Canadian sites involved in social change.
		Most, unfortunately, are still based in the northern hemisphere, but that may change.
	www.citizens4change.org /links.htm (1031 words)

	Civil Rights Commissioner Says Attitude of Movement Must Change (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Conservatives who are active in civil rights issues tend to be more optimistic, Kirsanow says, because of the "many successes the country has made in the protection of civil rights" for all citizens.
		He complains that even though almost, if not all, current and anticipated civil rights abuses can be addressed by existing legislation, current judicial precedent, or regulations, the discussion of civil rights continues to revolve largely around addressing grievances through legislative action.
		He says if civil rights leaders would embrace such a change, the "spark" would return to the movement.
	www.newsmax.com /archives/articles/2002/1/18/63632.shtml (1048 words)

	Impeach Bush: The Four Reasons for Responsible Citizenship
		Total Information Awareness (recently changed to Terrorism IA and then scrapped)
		Read the PNAC's "Rebuilding America's Defenses" for a detail of their military strategy for American global hegemony.
		The Downing Street Memo and other key documents unambiguously indicate that the policy of regime change in Iraq was planned as early as July 2002 and "the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy."
	www.thefourreasons.org (490 words)

	Another World Is Possible If ...
		Shifting the balance of power in favor of citizens takes a hard-headed understanding of globalization, knowledge of the adversaries who prevent change, intelligent organization, and exciting yet practical proposals and strategic thinking.
		In clear and straightforward prose, drawing on her thirty years of scholarship in the service of social change as well as decades of participation in social movements, George cautions against pitfalls such as violence or basing one’s actions on all-too-common illusions.
		Her work has been translated into many languages.
	www.versobooks.com /books/ghij/g-titles/george_s_another_world.shtml (289 words)

	EU: Political Parties
		United Kingdom Independence Party (Br-3); June Movement (Den-3); People's Movement against the EU (Den-1); Hunting, Fishing, Nature, Traditions (Fr-6); Political Reformed Party (Neth-1); Reformed Political Union (Neth-1); Reformed Political Federation (Neth-1)
		French Communist Party (Com-4); Independent (Com-2); Workers Fight (Com-3); Revolutionary Communist League (Com-2); Greens (Grn-9); Socialist Party (Soc-18); Citizens Movement (Soc-2); Radical Party of the Left (Soc-2); Rally for the Republic (Consv-12); Union for French Democracy (Consv-9); Rally for France and the Independence of Europe (ES-12.
		Communist Party of Greece (Com-3); Democratic Social Movement (Com-2); Progressive Left Coalition (Com-2); Panhellenic Socialist Movement (Soc-9); New Democracy (Consv-9)
	www.gis.net /~pldr/EUPP.html (495 words)

	BLOG-IRAN by Activistchat.com (Iran News & Views)
		Also, if you're a blogger who hasn't yet joined the BLOG-IRAN Campaign, there has never been a better time to join!
		Thank you for uniting in this noble effort to hear the Iranian people's cries for freedom and to relay their message, their struggle, their hopes and dreams, to the citizens and governments of the world.
		If you're looking for more news, articles and discsussion regarding the struggle, visit our news site as well as the message forum.
	www.activistchat.com /blogiran (165 words)

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