Obama Denies U.S. Involvement in Pro-democracy Hong Kong Protests
President Barack Obama has denied the U.S. have had any involvement in the ongoing pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong but requested the Chinese government listen to the people of Hong Kong.
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Democracy EU-style - @JonathanArnott @UKIP
http://www.ukipmeps.org | http://www.ukip.org European Parliament, Brussels, 12 November 2014 Jonathan Arnott MEP (North East), UK Independence Party (UKIP), Europe of Freedom and...
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George Galloway at Defend Democracy - Solidarity with Tower Hamlets
Support the Petition Here - Respect our democracy treat councils equally! - http://chn.ge/1xyLf8x 12.11.14 - George Galloway speaking at a Rally in solidarity with the community of Tower...
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The 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall is a good time to reflect on the dimming regard for democratic government at home andabroad.
Nov. 9, 1989, the day that East Berliners scaled the wall and embraced their fellow Germans from the West, marked the zenith of global faith in democracys promise, shortly before the communist empirecollapsed.
I was lucky enough to witness East Europes democratic uprisings firsthand. In November 1989, in East Germany, I watched tens of thousands of peaceful demonstrators in Leipzig roar for a united, democratic Germany, in a series of
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The 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall is a good time to reflect on the dimming regard for democratic government at home andabroad.
Nov. 9, 1989, the day that East Berliners scaled the wall and embraced their fellow Germans from the West, marked the zenith of global faith in democracys promise, shortly before the communist empirecollapsed.
I was lucky enough to witness East Europes democratic uprisings firsthand. In November 1989, in East Germany, I watched tens of thousands of peaceful demonstrators in Leipzig roar for a united, democratic Germany, in a series of Monday protests that helped seal East Germanysfate.
In Czechoslovakia, I heard soon-to-be President Vaclav Havel, at Pragues Letna Park, urge a massive crowd to strike for free elections and the right to think freely. I hurtled around Gdansk in a van driven by the legendary Polish labor activist-dissident Lech Walesa, who shouted out his hopes of building the country we dreamed of. Soon, communist systems collapsed in all threecountries.
The fall of the wall not only ended the Soviet empire in East Europe, but also led inexorably to the collapse of the Soviet Union two years later. Third World countries turned toward the American capitalist model in hopes it would deliver the prosperity that socialismhadnt.
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Democracy is on the defensive - Wed, 12 Nov 2014 PST
Max Halupka with museum director Daryl Karp at the Power of 1 exhibition at the Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House. Photo: Rohan Thomson
The perception of young Australians as apathetic, lazy, and unlikely to engage in political discourse is inaccurate, mad and dangerous according to the authors of a new study on Australian democracy.
The study, undertaken by the University of Canberra's Institute for Governance and Policy Analysis in conjunction with the Museum of Australian Democracy, compared how different generations perceived our political system and what they would change about it.
Max Halupka, a research fellow at the Institute for Governance and Policy Analysis, said the survey indicated a "changing of the guard" with young people feeling disenfranchised with politicians but still supporting democratic values.
"A lot of people see political party membership and engagement as the hallmarks of democracy but what our study did was ask a broader repertoire of questions to see what other ways people engage in politics," he said.
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"We found that Gen Y [born between 1980 and 1995] comes out really strongly in other forms of political engagement as they have moved away from tradition party politics."
Mr Halupka said Australian youth were more likely to engage in politics via social media and online petitions and these trends should not be seen as temporary fads but fundamental changes.
"These mechanisms are a by-product of the internet and an aspect of the everyday so the political system has to adapt to them otherwise we may see an even greater disconnect among younger demographics," he said.
Lead author Professor Mark Evans said negative stereotypes of younger generations were "mad and dangerous for the health of Australian democracy".
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Gen Y bashing 'mad and dangerous' to Australian democracy