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	Movement for Democratic Change - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) was founded in 1999 as the official opposition party to the Zanu-PF party led by Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe.
		The proposed change would have limited future presidents to two terms, but as it was not retroactive, Mugabe could have stood for another two terms.
		On 9-11 March 2002, the MDC's presidential candidate and leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, was defeated by Mugabe in the 2002 race after being charged with treason for allegedly plotting to assassinate Mugabe.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Movement_for_Democratic_Change (462 words)

	Opposition Says First Step Toward Elections is Unfair (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Movement for Democratic Change is to decide in early January whether to contest parliamentary polls, scheduled for March.
		In August the Movement for Democratic Change suspended participation in elections until the government reformed electoral laws to comply with regional election principles agreed to in August by Mr.
		MDC Secretary-General Welshman Ncube says the opposition would not be able to challenge the voters' roll in court unless it had an electronic version so that more than five million names on the roll could be checked.
	quickstart.clari.net /voa/art/hk/2004-12-21-voa35.html (459 words)

	Zimbabwe and the Prospects for Nonviolent Political Change: Special Reports: Publications: U.S. Institute of Peace (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		MDC economic policies include a minimum wage based upon the poverty line and a large role for the state in the provision of social services and economic stimulus.
		The MDC seems to be arguing for a constitutional amendment to address problematic electoral laws but the party is concerned that constitutional reform would prolong the longevity of the Mugabe regime.
		The MDC leader, Tsvangirai, has been charged with treason a second time, this time for "seeking to violently overthrow a democratically elected president." Tsvangirai is already on trial for a an earlier treason charge for "plotting to assassinate President Mugabe." Both charges carry the death penalty.
	www.usip.org /pubs/specialreports/sr109.html (9426 words)

	The Movement of Democratic Change in Liberia
		The Movement for Democratic Change in Liberia (MDCL) is a nonprofit independent political movement dedicated to achieving nonviolent democratic change in Liberia.
		The Movement is committed to the building of democratic institutions in Liberia and ensuring transition to a democratic way of life.
		The Movement for Democratic Change in Liberia (MDCL) is deeply troubled by the recent palace coup in the Steering Committee of the All-Liberia National Conference (ALNC) with the concerted effort to replace Dr. James Teah Tarpeh as Chairman of the Committee.
	www.mdcl.org (530 words)

	AM Archive - Zimbabwe Opp welcomes Commonwealth decision (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Opposition Movement for Democratic Change says Commonwealth leaders have redeemed themselves after failing to take action for more than two years but the MDC says that the suspension won't relieve the suffering of the Zimbabwean people, now being compounded by deepening political unrest.
		The Movement for Democratic Change says President Robert Mugabe stole victory in the Presidential poll and voters must be given the chance to truly express their will at the ballot box but it's a hefty demand in the current political climate.
		LINDA MOTTRAM: Tendai Biti from the Movement for Democratic Change in Zimbabwe.
	www.abc.net.au /am/stories/s508651.htm (521 words)

	United States Democratic Party Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Of the two major U.S. parties, the Democratic Party is to the left of the Republican Party, though its politics are not as consistently leftist as the traditional social democratic and labor parties in much of the rest of the world.
		The Democrats cite affirmative action as a method with which to redress past discrimination and to ensure equitable employment regardless of ethnicity or gender.
		The National Democratic Institute, an organization with ties to the party, is registered as a cooperating organization with the Liberal International.
	www.alienartifacts.com /encyclopedia/United_States_Democratic_Party (7132 words)

	Boston.com / News / Nation / Zimbabwe opposition wins close elections
		But analysts said the opposition party Movement for Democratic Change was losing some of the support that has made it the biggest threat to Mugabe's 23-year grip on power amid an economic crisis critics say was caused by government mismanagement.
		The Movement for Democratic Change won six of seven mayoral seats, including northern Kariba, where its candidate was set to become Zimbabwe's first postindependence white mayor.
		The Movement for Democratic Change, made up of union groups and prodemocracy activists, has drawn the bulk of its support from urban areas and rallied thousands of supporters in antigovernment protests that paralyzed the country in June.
	www.boston.com /news/nation/articles/2003/09/03/zimbabwe_opposition_wins_close_elections (298 words)

	MDC (Zimbabwe) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Movement for Democratic Change, or the MDC, was recently involved in the presidental elections in Zimbabwe.
		The open hand on the flag is the election symbol of the MDC and it represents transparency.
		The open hand, the election symbol of the Movement for Democratic Change, was chosen as it represents transparency.
	flagquest.com /FOTW/flags/zw}mdc.html (412 words)

	Zimbabwe Information Centre - News
		MDC members of parliament Tendai Biti and Paul Madzore were arrested in a low income suburb of Mabvuku in the capital as they were about to address a rally.
		A private Zimbabwean newspaper said the MDC had left a petition for Obasanjo at the high commission (embassy) urging him to persuade Mugabe to quit office in the next three months and for new elections to be held within six months.
		In many cases MDC supporters don't get paid although they have completed the work." Moyo said that although most of the international food aid organisations experience "chronic shortages and would never be able to adequately feed the starving masses", they remain neutral in the registration of people and the distribution of food.
	www.zic.com.au /updates/2003/11february2003.htm (18982 words)

	Marching on Mugabe By Nancy Palus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai is exhorting Zimbabweans to come out "in your millions" June 2 for a week of peaceful marches against President Robert Mugabe.
		The MDC has been stepping up pressure on Mugabe since the March 2002 election that kept him in power—an election the international community roundly condemned as flawed and the MDC deemed a fraud.
		The MDC's call for action comes as the G-8 countries prepare for their summit in Evian, France, where Africa is expected to be on the agenda.
	slate.msn.com /id/2083772 (723 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Africa \| Mugabe seeks landslide poll win (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai has been campaigning in Chimanimani, next to the border with Mozambique.
		Mr Mugabe accuses the MDC of being a stooge for western countries, opposed to his policy of seizing white-owned land for redistribution to poor fl families.
		The MDC denies this, saying Mr Mugabe is resorting to nationalist rhetoric because he has ruined the economy.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/africa/4391087.stm (575 words)

	MDC (Zimbabwe) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Movement for Democratic Change, or the MDC, contested the recent parliamentary and presidential elections in Zimbabwe.
		I can confirm that the depiction of the flag of the Movement for Democratic Change is correct.
		The open hand, the election symbol of the Movement for Democratic Change, was chosen as it represents transparency - We have nothing to hide, we carry no weapons and we promote the ideals of a peaceful democracy.
	www.fotw.net /flags/zw}mdc.html (416 words)

	Directory - Regional: Africa: Zimbabwe: Society and Culture: Politics: People: Tsvangirai, Morgan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Leader of the Opposition · cached · Profile of Morgan Tsvangirai, head of Zimbabwe's Movement for Democratic Change.
		Quiz Zimbabwe's opposition leader · Morgan Tsvangirai, leader of the Movement for Democratic Change, Zimbabwe's largest opposition grouping, answered your questions.
		MDC - Profiles: Morgan Tsvangirai · Official profile from the Movement for Democratic Change.
	www.incywincy.com /default?p=512409 (127 words)

	Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Opinion / Op-ed / Seeking compromise in Zimbabwe
		Sources close to Mbeki's ruling African National Congress, say the South African president is, however, wary of the close links forged between the the Movement for Democratic Change, a trade union-based party, and the powerful Congress of South African Trade Unions, the African National Congress's most conspicuous political rival.
		Mbeki is said to be also peeved by the Movement for Democratic Change's perceived alliance with another major African National Congress political rival, the opposition Democratic Alliance, essentially a white party.
		In Zimbabwe, Mugabe says the Movement for Democratic Change embarked on a campaign to reverse the expropriation of white-owned farms by the state which, while accompanied by widespread violence was, according to him, entirely legitimate.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2004/12/25/seeking_compromise_in_zimbabwe?pg=2 (426 words)

	Movement for Democratic Change Online: News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		MDC - Changing Times:: Issue 61, Issue 63 and Issue 62 Use Adobe to open.
		KWEKWE - The MDC offices, located at 37- 4th street, have been razed to the ground by bulldozers under the watchful eye of more than 50 heavily armed policemen accompanied by Kwekwe council officials.
		ZIMBABWE was blighted by probably its worst economic crisis yet this week with chronic electricity and water shortages in the major cities of Harare and Bulawayo.Doctors and industrial workers were also on strike, with a decision to suspend Zimbabwe from the International Monetary Fund imminent.
	www.mdczimbabwe.org /News/news.htm (894 words)

	MOVEMENT FOR DEMOCRATIC CHANGE
		The incident was reported to the police but police informed the MDC officials that they had been given instructions by their superiors NOT TO ARREST Zanu PF activists engaged in acts of violence.
		The MDC activists were told that Makoni West was a no-go area for the MDC.
		11 February: the MDC candidate for Hurungwe West, Godfrey Gumbo, was abducted by a group of Zanu PF supporters and taken to their HQ in Harare where he was severely assaulted.
	www.swradioafrica.com /Documents/SADCReport_8.htm (2188 words)

	Mugabe's Way or Zimbabwe? By June Thomas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai, who lost his bid for a seat in parliament (having chosen to fight in his rural birthplace rather than in Harare), told reporters that if Mugabe offered him one of the 30 seats the president is empowered to appoint, he would decline in order to concentrate on the 2002 presidential race.
		The Financial Times claimed that the downfall of PRI, the party of government for the last 71 years, would be "the best way for Mexico to demonstrate stronger democratic credentials." With a divided congress the most likely outcome, the new president will have "relatively limited powers" and will have to be disposed to compromise.
		Since change is "a necessary part of the democratic process," an orderly handover of power to a legitimately elected opponent would be President Ernesto Zedillo's "greatest achievement," the paper concluded.
	slate.msn.com /id/85300 (726 words)

	ZIMBABWE: Labour movement debates response to poll fraud
		An indication of support the MDC commands in the cities was the huge victory it scored in the concurrent Harare mayoral and council election.
		The MDC won 44 of the 45 council wards, and its mayoral candidate romped in with 262,000 votes to ZANU-PF's 57,000.
		In response to the inaction by ZCTU and MDC leaders, the ISOZ and its allies on March 17 urged workers to “demand that your union and ZCTU call for an indefinite general strike, and mass action, supported by a united front of progressive organisations”.
	www.greenleft.org.au /back/2002/486/486p17.htm (1695 words)

	Zimbabwes Biggest Daily Online Newspaper - I Am Not Stepping Down! - Tsvangirai Zimbabwe Daily News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		One person asked if Tsvangirai was democratically elected, was there a congress or was he appointed by a handful, the answer is yes he was elected by the pple at a congress in Chitungwiza at the Aquatic Centre 1999 and i was there and there were buses from Harare for free.
		Understandably MDC is fighting f or a change in gorvenance which has a leadership that does not want to resign despite failure and being atraitor to its people.
		Mr Tsvangirai should admit despite being a gentleman that MDC under his leadership has not done much to progress peole voted for MDC because it was the only formidable and much organised of all the opposition parties.
	zimdaily.com /news2/article.php/2005100620465678 (5350 words)

	Infoline (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		An appeal by the Movement for Democratic Change to have the election postponed was thrown out by the High Court Friday, after the presiding judge ruled the case was politically motivated.
		In Hurungwe West, where there is a by-election taking place concurrently with council elections, Nikoniari Chabvamudeve, a Movement for Democratic Change member, was axed to death last Saturday in the Chivende communal area by suspected Zanu PF supporters as the violence flared.
		The other Movement for Democratic Change supporters arrested with him were also assaulted, "but they singled Tom out for special treatment," Spicer said.
	www.samara.co.zw /infoline/sep02/29_sep.htm (2115 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Africa \| Zimbabwe MDC plans Senate boycott
		The elections are the result of a recent constitutional change that reintroduced an upper house into Zimbabwe's parliament.
		Government critics say the change was introduced to strengthen the hold on power of President Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF party.
		According to one report, the party council was split evenly on the issue, and Mr Tsvangirai exercised a casting vote in favour of a boycott.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/africa/4335552.stm (331 words)

	David Coltart's 2002 New Year message
		In June 2001 I wrote that the political tide in Zimbabwe had turned and that the process of change was inevitable.
		The physical measures are fairly obvious: bombing the Daily News, threatening the Judiciary, murdering, beating and detaining members of the MDC, forcing farmers off the land, assaulting and displacing thousands of farm workers and raiding businesses and industry.
		The views expressed in this letter (are attributed to David Coltart - MDC Legal Affairs, Zimbabwe, and) do not necessarily reflect the views of the MDC (Movement for Democratic Change).
	www.zambezi.co.uk /news/coltart.html (846 words)

	allAfrica.com: Zimbabwe
		THE opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), which is locked in increasingly rancorous political combat, appeared yesterday rigidly determined to self-destruct.
		PRESIDENT Mugabe yesterday took a swipe at MDC leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai for his spirited attempts to overrule the majority decision by the opposition party in favour of participation in the forthcoming Senate elections.
		THE isolation of MDC president, Mr Morgan Tsvangirai continued to grow yesterday as he was snubbed by South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki, who reportedly invited other members of the 'top-six' to an emergency meeting in Tshwane (formerly Pretoria).
	allafrica.com /zimbabwe (835 words)

	The Zimbabwe Independent (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		THIS is an open letter to Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) president Morgan Tsvangirai.
		These meetings are meant to expatiate on the reasons why the MDC has taken the non-participation decision and to find out what role each of these stakeholders can play.
		It is a must that your party produces material in the form of fliers, posters, e-mails and cellphone messages as well as carry out door-to-door campaigns and stage peaceful protests.
	www.theindependent.co.zw /news/2005/October/Friday21/3432.html (651 words)

	Dandemutande Information Service (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Movement for Democratic Change - Harare Zimbabwe - 11 Sep 99
		The new party, Movement for Democratic Change - MDC - will be launched:
		Everyone who dislikes ZANU(PF) and wants to see a change of government to bring democracy to our country is invited to attend.
	www.dandemutande.org /ListserveDisplay.asp?i=0395 (108 words)

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