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	Democracy Awards
		The Democracy Award is given annually by the National Endowment for Democracy's Board of Directors to recognize the courageous and creative work of individuals and organizations that has advanced the cause of human rights and democracy around the world.
		The NED's Democracy Award is a small-scale replica of the Goddess of Democracy that was constructed in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China during the student movement for freedom and democracy in 1989.
		In 1991 the National Endowment for Democracy began presenting the symbolic statuette as its annual Democracy Award.
	www.ned.org /events/democracyaward.html (244 words)

	Goddess of Democracy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Goddess of Democracy (Chinese: 民主女神; pinyin: mínzhǔ nǚshén), also known as the Goddess of Democracy and Freedom, was a 10-metre (30 ft) high statue created during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
		The Democracy Award given by the National Endowment for Democracy is a small-scale replica of the Goddess of Democracy.
		Goddess of Democracy at Portsmouth Square in San Francisco Chinatown
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Goddess_of_Democracy (387 words)

	Chinese Democracy
		Out of the cacophony of cries for democracy and reform in 1978 and 1979, the loudest and most radical was that of Wei Jingsheng, a Beijing electrician and son of two high-ranking Party officials.
		Given this long and tortuous history of democracy in China, and the numerous connotations and layers of meaning associated with the term "minzhu", when the term appeared on wall posters again in 1989, it was sometimes used less for its intrinsic meaning than for its ability to link present concerns with those of the past.
		The "Goddess of Democracy," although it had plenty of antecedents in Chinese religious and political ceremonies, was also instrumental in tugging the heartstrings of millions of Westerners who drew a connection to the Statue of Liberty and assumed that Chinese aspirations were identical to their own.
	www.tsquare.tv /themes/essay.html (1409 words)

	Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		"The Goddess of Democracy" carved by students from the Central Academy of Fine Arts and erected in the Square during the protest.
		Toward the end of the demonstration, on May 30, a statue of the Goddess of Democracy was erected in the Square and came to symbolize the protest to television viewers worldwide.
		Despite early expectations in the West that PRC government would soon collapse and be replaced by the Chinese democracy movement, by the early 21st century the Communist Party of China remained in firm control of the People's Republic of China, and the student movement which started at Tiananmen was in complete disarray.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tiananmen_Square_protests_of_1989 (6063 words)

	The Flying Fists of Master Grant: The Goddess of Democracy
		She was, in her own way, an avatar of The White Goddess, that principle Robert Graves (and Sir James Frazer before him) described as the Moon Mother, an embodiment of poetry, transformation, and dreams for a wiser tomorrow.
		Before that, when our military ambitions were dedicated only to defending the fragile dream of democracy, the spirit of the land was seen as a woman, this woman, Columbia, the Goddess of Democracy.
		The goddess of democracy was later run over by the tanks, and crushed to pieces.
	www.flyingfists.org /archives/002942.html (987 words)

	The Goddess of Democracy and the Future of Hong Kong
		When we call western countries democracies, what we mean is countries with governments whose sphere of authority is to some degree limited — either by traditions, as in Britain, or formally by a constitution as in the United States — and whose leaders are selected by the vote of majority.
		So the “Goddess of Democracy” stands for a method of selecting rulers — a method that just happen to be used in countries that are also, by and large, free.
		Democracy is no guarantee of freedom: Adolf Hitler, for example, was democratically elected though he did, of course, remain in power by means of a coup.
	www.marktier.com /goddess.htm (5167 words)

	World History of Democracy: Democracy in World History Today
		It was remarkable, however, that they saw lack of democracy, the absence of honest, effective elections, as basic to their predicament, and the introduction of free elections and free expression as an essential part of any solution.
		When the Goddess of Democracy rose in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, outside observers were at least as surprised as the Chinese leadership that supposedly “Western” values of democracy and human rights should have so much potential support among not only students but also ordinary people.
		It should be remembered that Scandinavia’s influential attempts at “social democracy” took place in a region that had always been considered a poor backwater of Europe; even today these countries have influence that is far out of proportion to their population and wealth.
	www.nipissingu.ca /department/history/MUHLBERGER/HISTDEM/dwht2004.htm (2627 words)

	Protect San Francisco's Goddess of Democracy Statue
		On September 22, 1996, during a demonstration by groups supporting the Communist government of China, the City of San Francisco stood by and did nothing as the Goddess of Democracy statue in Portsmouth Square was covered by tarp and scaffolding.
		"Goddess of Democracy", a statue in a public park, belongs to the people of the City and County of San Francisco.
		The statue is an expression of liberty and democracy, concepts that should be proudly paraded, not shamefully concealed.
	www.svdc.org /statue.html (1147 words)

	Cashing in on Tiananmen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		And on May 30, when the luminous Goddess of Democracy was installed on the square.
		At the height of the protests, it seemed that all of China was marching arm-in-arm toward democracy.
		The ultimate symbol of those six weeks came at their very end: on one of the streets leading to the square, a lone worker, a white-shirted nobody, stood motionless before a column of tanks, bringing them to a standstill -- the dauntless individual against the tyranny of the state.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /alt1/archive/news/97/03/27/CHINA_2.html (825 words)

	China Support Network (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		During this time, the population of Beijing was holding off the military by blocking convoys of soldiers, who were unwilling to open fire and shoot the Chinese population in their way.
		On this day, May 30, students erected a 30-foot Goddess of Democracy statue, similar to the Statue of Liberty, in the middle of Tiananmen Square.
		The students had done their homework, and images of this Goddess of Democracy statue were flashed around the world and into the living rooms of ordinary people.
	www.chinasupport.net /buzz75.htm (258 words)

	The Goddess of Democracy
		God himself will lead them, for they will be doing His work.
		Over the next few centuries, the Catholics, with their battle cry of “Deus vult!” (God wills it) were often victorious against the Muslims, whose only crime defined by the Pope was that they were living on a land holy to the Catholic Church.
		Let us pray that our leaders will make the right choices in the days and years to come, and the Goddess of Democracy will always be a beacon of light and hope for the world.
	thescreamonline.com /commentary/comment4-3/hartmann/goddessofdemocracy.html (1829 words)

	Full Circle Events - Pagan Voting Project - Lady Liberty, The Goddess of Democracy
		Goddess of Liberty.” This feminine spirit sits atop the US Capitol building where she is called the “Statue of Freedom”.
		The desire for liberty is a powerful force, one that transcends culture, geography, history, religion, and politics. This is one of the reasons why we chose Lady Liberty as the icon for the Pagan Voting Project.
		Nemesis (another name for Venus), a goddess who held a cup in her right hand.
	www.fullcircleevents.org /pvp/docs/lady_liberty.html (656 words)

	tiananmen
		On May 29, 1989, the ceremony of the Goddess of Democracy was held in Tiananmen Sqaure.
		In the clip wtih the tearing down of the statue, we silently observed the cries of depression of the protestors because their motivation of democracy was torn down.
		The website included pictures of soldiers storming into the square, protestors marching down the streets of Beijing into Tiananmen Square, pictures of the Goddess of Democracy, and many images of students that were shot and beaten to death.
	nhs.needham.k12.ma.us /cur/Baker_00/2001_p2/baker_sf_jw_p2/tiananmen.htm (1538 words)

	Requital Document
		The Goddess of Democracy symbol of the Chinese pro-democracy movement at Hong Kong's rally to mark the anniversary of Tiananmen Square 2 Jun 98 Reuters.
		When God gave Abraham the covenant of seed as the dust and as the stars in the sky, this was not the God of creation but the spermatogenic imperative speaking.
		In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
	www.dhushara.com /book/genesis/requital.htm (5537 words)

	Four Women Activists from Muslim Countries Receive Democracy Awards
		Frist is a member of the board of the National Endowment for Democracy and a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
		The first democracy award recipient, Nadjet Bouda (Algeria), works with SOS Disparus, an organization that advocates on behalf of the hundreds of Algerians who have disappeared as a result of Algeria's ongoing civil war.
		The National Endowment for Democracy is a private, non-profit, grant-making organization created in 1983 to strengthen democratic institutions around the world through nongovernmental efforts.
	www.usembassyjakarta.org /press_rel/democracy_award.html (1025 words)

	Democracy in Athens
		The liberal-popular and the conservative-aristocratic emerged as the two dominant factions in Athenian democracy … The spirit of the agon (competition), fame, glory, honor and the desire to surpass all others were values enshrined even in the Homeric poems, particularly the Iliad.
		In reality, wars were used to acquire wealth, to keep the economy humming, to flex their muscle of growing power, and to distract citizens from domestic issues.
		Their democracy, too, depended on public awareness, responsibility, and participation to provide a bulwark against any willful abuse of power; conscious citizens were vital for its success in their asking – who are these men making decisions for me and my people?
	www.shunya.net /Text/Blog/DemocracyAthens.htm (626 words)

	Ø Wilson's Almanac free daily ezine \| Book of Days \| May 30 \| Feast day St Joan of Arc execution Goddess ...
		The idea of God implies the abdication of human reason and justice; it is the most decisive negation of human liberty and necessarily ends in the enslavement of mankind both in theory and practice.
		God, or rather the fiction of God, is thus the sanction and the intellectual and moral cause of all the slavery on earth, and the liberty of men will not be complete, unless it will have completely annihilated the inauspicious fiction of a heavenly master.
		Aesir, and goddess of the sky, the goddess of motherhood, fertility, love, household management, and domestic arts.
	www.wilsonsalmanac.com /book/may30.html (3198 words)

	BBC News \| Special Reports \| China's Communist Revolution
		The death of an outspoken member of the Communist Party, Hu Yao Bang, sparked a mass demonstration of mourning students in Tiananmen Square, which was open to the public.
		Still the activists were not ejected, and on 30 May students erected the "Goddess of Democracy" statue, cheered on by members of the police.
		The demonstration was a grave embarrassment as it came during a Sino-Russian summit.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/static/special_report/1999/09/99/china_50/tiananmen.htm (158 words)

	Plays: "The Goddess Speaks." (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		She is ragged and out of breath, but for no apparent reason, while the flesh Goddess cowers at the sight of Seeker of Freedom, TV Man makes tentative steps towards her.
		Now is the time for the Goddess to speak the truth, in the presence of the Seeker of Freedom, and the TV Man, and all assembled.
		The mask Goddess moves her arms in a pattern as images are cast on his mask.
	www.juggernautco.com /offline/plays/the_goddess_speaks.html (3340 words)

	A City on a Hill
		Secondly, they needed to give to fellow Christians in need, according to their need, and God would provide for them when they might someday be in need.
		Thirdly, in extraordinary circumstances, when God had a special purpose, they were to give sacrificially, as a measure of their faith, and God would reward their faith.
		The King and princes of the house of Saud, Jordan’s King Hussein, the Emirs of Kuwait, the Sultan of Brunei, the Emir of Dubai, and President Assad of Syria, to name a few, are leaders that were never popularly elected on a competitive ballot.
	fchapel.com /city.htm (3280 words)

	Exgaucho: Posts on Life, News, or Whatever Else
		Democracy and Islamic fundamentalism are no more compatible than matter and antimatter.
		We saw that in 1989, when Chinese pro-democracy protestor erected the Goddess of Democracy in homage to the Statue of Liberty.
		Tyranny may score temporary victories against the march of democracy, but end the end it seems that those opposing democracy are on the losing side of history.
	exgaucho.blogspot.com /2005/01/live-free-or-die.html (740 words)

	The Goddess of Democracy: A Sacred Archetype to Heal the World
		God himself will lead them, for they will be doing His work.
		Over the next few centuries, the Catholics, with their battle cry of “Deus vult!” (God wills it) were often victorious against the Muslims, whose only crime defined by the Pope was that they were living on a land holy to the Catholic Church.
		Let us pray that our leaders will make the right choices in the days and years to come, and the Goddess of Democracy will always be a beacon of light and hope for the world.
	www.thomhartmann.com /heal.shtml (1853 words)

	Democracy University
		With that starting point we can understand why Democracy University will be a potentially powerful tool for citizens to play an effective role in their government.
		We the people are entitled to self-government; but we have a responsibility to prepare ourselves to fulfill the obligations of the highest office in a democratic government - the office of the citizen.
		On June 4th, 1989, underneath the shadow of the newly erected Goddess of Democracy standing tall on Tiananmen Square, the first Democracy University (Min Zhu Da Shue) was established.
	democracyuniversity.com /# (600 words)

	CNN.com - Tiananmen memory lingers on - June 8, 2001
		The Goddess of Democracy statue and the Gate of Heavenly Peace, the Tiananmen, were the backdrop of a usual summer evening.
		I was determined to study democracy and press freedom in the West and to find out "why" and "how" China came to be what it was in 1989.
		After all these years shouting slogans, demanding democracy and a verdict of June 4, it seems the best thing to do is remember.
	edition.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/asiapcf/east/06/03/tiananmen.tang (1223 words)

	Table of contents for Library of Congress control number 2004002781
		America's Democracy Is Eroding 12 Loss of democratic participation 18 The rise of the new corporate feudal lords 18 The three threats 20 II.
		Democracy, Not Dominance, Is the Way of Nature 159 VIII.
		The State of Democracy in the World Today 225 Democracy spreads across the world in a single century 1920-2000 225 The state of democracy in the world today 230 Democracy is inevitable 232 XI.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/toc/ecip0415/2004002781.html (356 words)

	Cultural Images Angels And Goddesses
		Many breasted Artemis of Ephesus was a semi-human symbol of fecundity, being the goddess of nature, animals, and young girls.
		Her temple in Turkey was considered one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, where it is believed that waters flowing in the area of this former port town were healing and could cure the sick.
		The Goddess of Democracy was erected in Tiananmen Square by the students of Beijingís Academy of Fine Arts on May 30, 1989 and bulldozed five days later in the tragic end to one of the most courageous displays of free speech in the 20th century.
	www.culturalimages.net /ag.htm (360 words)

	Democracy Wall - China Mainland - June 4th Tiananmen Memorial
		The students who set up Democracy Wall and occupied Tiananmen Sqaure saw the State for what it was, they wanted freedom and liberty for everyone and because the spokeout were murdered and put in labor camps were many have died.
		Chinese people are very lucky to have an approach to reality without the deceiving mean of religion.They have all the right to preserve this attitude from the apparently harmless assault of western countries that with the horse of Troy of human rights and religions try to repeat with more sophisticate arms the appalling "opium war".
		Many assume that democracy is as much a part of the United States constitution as dictatorship (of the proletariat) is part of the Chinese constitution, or at least that which CCP doctrine creates.
	books.dreambook.com /vead/tiananmen.html (4355 words)

	Tag Central » democracy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Democracy is fitted in the hips and loosens up in thighs and opens to a 22 boot opening giving us that great trouser look and feel.
		This Kasil denim is in a darker solid wash with brown stitching and trouser flap pockets that button.
		Democracy in the Age of Information: A Reconception of the Public Sphere
	tagcentral.net /?tag=democracy (1152 words)

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		From 1989 to 1991, for anyone who had hoped through the long years of the Cold War for the eventual triumph of democracy over totalitarianism, it was hard not to feel good about world events.
		By then, to be sure, Deng Xiaoping’s troops had already overturned the "Goddess of Democracy" and massacred the statue’s makers.
		In the aftermath of the Tiananmen massacre, to my knowledge no respectable China-watcher argued that China was inherently or permanently incapable of democratizing, or that Chinese culture and democratic politics were somehow forever destined to remain incompatible.
	www.nbr.org /publications/article.aspx?ID=c60509af-3ef9-481b-b63b-2516e5384e1b (812 words)

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