elections
You've Got to Stop Voting - by Mark E. Smith
Submitted by folkie on 2 August 2011 - 5:10amKeith Olbermann has a great segment telling us why we've got to get mad: click here
Today's Top Article on BradBlog is Devoted to Dissing Me
Submitted by folkie on 7 December 2011 - 10:55pm
Too funny!
Occupy Electoral Politics
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=8972
When I posted a response it was "held for moderation."
Subsequent comments were allowed, but my first response, which you can read below is still being censored.
A Discussion with Occupiers about Representative vs. Direct Democracy
Submitted by folkie on 4 December 2011 - 7:27pmI started a topic on an OWS forum and am copying it below:
http://occupywallst.org/forum/occupy-san-diego-abandons-direct-democracy
Egyptians Resist US Attempt to Impose Sham Election - by Mark E. Smith
Submitted by folkie on 23 November 2011 - 6:15pmHere's a clip of Egyptian actor Khalid Abdalla speaking to Al Jazeera about the sham election that the US is trying to impose on Egypt:
Indigenous Communities Boycott Elections - (Mexico)
Submitted by folkie on 30 September 2011 - 7:26pm
Two indigenous communities in the violence-torn Mexican state of Michoacan will not participate in the state elections set for November 13. Spokespersons for the Nahua community of Osutla and the Purepecha community of Cheran reiterated this week their intentions of boycotting the vote.
The Value of Voting - by Mark E. Smith
Submitted by folkie on 2 September 2011 - 8:16pmDuring a long discussion on one of his forums, long-term Democratic Party organizer and former Democrat Congressional candidate Ray Lutz accused me of being opposed to voting. This was my response:
The Political Saviour Complex - by Mark E. Smith
Submitted by folkie on 1 August 2011 - 10:23amThis is a discussion from Twitter:
blogdiva: the United States needs a democratic socialist movement, this country needs it's own home-grown LULA DA SILVA
The Emperor Has No Votes - by Charlie Hinton
Submitted by folkie on 31 May 2011 - 10:05pm
The Emperor Has No Votes: The Imposition of Martelly, the Reconstitution of the Army, and the Restoration of Duvalier in Haiti
by Charlie Hinton
Why I Won't Vote - by Mark E. Smith
Submitted by folkie on 7 May 2011 - 11:13amThis was written in response to somebody who runs a mailing list for people of conscience, who mentioned having voted Green in the last Presidential election, but isn't sure whether to vote Green or Democrat in the next one and doesn't think their vote really matters anyway, but is tending towards voting Democrat because the Democrats support abortio
Oak Ridge, spear phishing, and i-voting - by Jeremy Epstein
Submitted by folkie on 21 April 2011 - 2:03amOak Ridge National Labs (one of the US national energy labs, along with Sandia, Livermore, Los Alamos, etc) had a bunch of people fall for a spear phishing attack (see articles in »
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