Petition Tag - democracy

* We the People of Jamaica are sovereign...

* We are equally entitled to the resources of the State...

* Members of Parliament have no right to select who will benefit from the resources of the State...

SIGN THIS PETITION to tell the Prime Minister to remove political affiliation as a factor in employing workers for the Jamaica Emergency Employment Programme (JEEP).

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[SUMMARY]

This petition is being organised by Activists, who believe that there is a better way to govern Jamaica in which all Jamaicans benefit. We are critical of the JLPNP's approach to governance, which has prevented all Jamaicans regardless of political affiliation from benefiting equally from state resources. Each Jamaican has the right to freedom from discrimination on the grounds of political opinion under the Charter of Rights Section 13(3)(i)(ii).

The distribution of state resources along political lines has resulted in the birth of garrisons and gangs in Jamaica, has undermined democracy, increased inequality, resulted in political tribalism and waste, and engendered hopelessness amongst people on the one hand, and forced others to become involved politically only to benefit from such resources. It is wrong, not only because of the negative repercussions but also because the resources are not political but rather money which belongs to the people of Jamaica in equal share.

The details of the JEEP programme revealed so far demonstrate that the resources of the people will be divided along political lines, because workers will be selected by Members of Parliament. Therefore, it is highly probably that only those who will be recognised by the Member of Parliament, who is no more than a politician who successfully ran for office, based on their service to that political party will be rewarded with work, rather than giving equal opportunity to all Jamaicans regardless of their political affiliation. Removing politicians from the process will ensure that all Jamaicans have an equal opportunity to be employed under the programme, regardless of political affiliation or opinion.

We demand that politics be removed from the Jamaica Emergency Employment Programme (JEEP).

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[Background]

In September 2011, then PNP head Portia Simpson-Miller announced that if elected the PNP would implement the Jamaica Emergency Employment Programme, or "JEEP." Very few details of the JEEP were revealed prior to the election. During the campaign the PNP however revealed that the programme:

* would be implemented to provide short-term help with the current unemployment problems

* would be funded primarily from JDIP and the Tourism Enhancement Fund

* persons would be employed in labour-intensive infrastructure projects, such as the construction of retaining walls, paving of gullies, and reforestation.

* the programme would be transparent and non partisan.

To date there has been no public consultation on the JEEP or its details. The results of the meetings

On Sunday, January 22nd, Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller revealed that the first leg of the JEEP would involve a $340 million road maintainance programme, covering the northern coastal highway from Negril to Port Antonio. All details of the programme are expected to be revealed at a launch in Salem, Runaway Bay, at 2:30pm on January 24, 2012.

From statements by the Prime Minister, and Richard Azan, state Minister in the Ministry of Transport, Works and Housing, the following information has been revealed:

* The programme will be funded by the IDB. The JLP released a statement that the agreement with the IDB was negotiated by them and signed on December 5, 2011 before they left office involving the same road works. Minister with responsiblity for information Sandra Falconer conceded that the programme was funded by the IDB.

* The works take place in 11 constituencies across 7 parishes, including East and West Portland, South East, Central and Western St Mary, North East and North West St Ann, North Trelawny, West Central St James and East and West Hanover. East Central St. James, which is along the same corridor, represented by the JLP's Edmund Bartlett, has been excluded from the works programme. The PNP stated that his constituency is benefiting from the Tourism Enhancement Fund.

* Nine of the constituencies were won by the PNP, and two by the JLP.

* Members of Parliament will select 600 of the 700 workers who will carry out the work.

Both major newspapers have already reported concerning the JEEP programme. Members of Parliament, including Jolyan Silvera, the MP for West St Mary, was able to identify the political allegiance of the workers he submitted, claiming 10 of the people selected are supporters of the JLP, five did not vote in the last election and 35 were PNP supporters. By granting Members of Parliament such wide powers to select workers, it is inevitable that political affiliation will determine which workers will be selected. Neither politicians nor those who supported them are entitled to distribute scarce resources, or to preferential treatment or to benefit from such resources solely on the basis of political affiliation. In the same way, persons of a different political opinion or of no political opinion should not be discriminated against during the selection process.

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Australia is a country rich in natural resources. This is our sovereign wealth that really should belong to Australia’s people. They are national assets that should be used wisely for the benefit of the people.

Presently, our natural resources and all the wealth created from them is being given away for a song to mainly foreign mining corporations, who send billions in profits overseas.

The Australian mining sector has alarmingly reached 83% foreign ownership. In the next five years foreign owners will earn about $265 billion from their investments in Australia's mineral resources; and $50 billion of this will be sent overseas as dividends to those foreign owners.

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Syria is a home for so many religions and ethnic groups. It is the heart of multiculturalism with over 20 000 000 residents from Syria and all around the world. For the last 40 years, Syrians have been suffering under the Assad Regime.

We have witnessed the Hama Masacre in 1982, the nonrecognition of the Kurdish Syrian community and since February of 2011, president Bashar Al-Assad has sent out his military to murder thousands of children, young adults and peaceful protestors to silence their cry for human rights!

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Dr. Mohammad Ali Salmani Nodoushan was arrested in Iran on Thursday August 25, 2011. He has been taken to unknown place.

On Farvardin 27, 1370 (April 16,1991) Mohammad married a sophomore student—named Fariba Moradalizadeh—from his same university. Fariba’s Mother, Mrs Soroor Ziaii, was a close relative of Effat Marashi, the-then-Iranian president’s wife, so he found himself in the in-group of Hashemi Rafsanjani’s family and tribe.

Dr Salmani Nodoushan has been a political dissident, a human-rights activist, and a freedom fighter in Iran. In the past 20 years he has been detained and tortured several times.

Recently, Fariba Moradalizadeh, Dr Salmani Nodoushan’s ex-wife, has gained upon some information that indicates Dr Salmani Nodoushan has been a Christian since 1993. She has written to some Grand Ayatollahs, and they have decreed that Dr Salmani Nodoushan must be put to the sword based on Islamic laws.

This time, the Iranian regime may want to use his conversion as a pretext to execute him.

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It is a fact, successive governments have made major decisions which affect the people of Great Britain & Northern Ireland, yet they fail to consult them. In some circumstances, such as going to war in Iraq and Afghanistan this has cost lives and heartbreak. In other circumstances, such as Europe and the Lisbon Treaty, political leaders have promised a referendum, only to withdraw their offer.

The National Liberal Party believes in direct democracy along similar lines to those currently used in Switzerland. We call for this to be introduced into law enabling the people to be consulted before we enter into conflicts which do not necessarily concern this country, as well as other major decisions of national importance.

Switzerland has proved this can work. Therefore we believe it is time we followed the successful Swiss example, and allow the people of England, Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland to be consulted via referendum as part of the democratic process of government.

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This petition is to request that the Judiciary is accountable to the voting population of Australia.
It is recognised that by Judiciary’s unaccountable interpretation of laws, laws made by the House of Representatives and the Senate, that implementation of laws can often not provide outcomes that are consistent with the wishes of the Citizens of Australia.

We believe that if Australia is a true democracy this needs to be changed. Historically at the time of our constitution the level of education of citizens and information to citizens was not as high as it is today.

With the changes in the knowledge and education of the citizens of Australia we believe the judiciary cannot remain unaccountable.

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Iranians Condemn Bashar al-Assad and Islamic Republic of Iran’s Crimes Committed against the Freedom Fighters of Syria!

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Four months after Obama offered Syria's brutal and fascist leader an ultimatum to lead reform or leave, Bashar Assad's crackdown on dissent rages on . . . .

مردم مظلوم سوریه ماههاست که زیر شدیدترین انواع بی رحمی از سوی رژیم فاشیست بعثی این کشور هستند. بیش از 1500 نفر کشته و دهها هزار نفر آواره هستند و این رژیم بی رحم به جنایات غیر انسانی خود بی پروا ادامه میدهد. سکوت جامعه جهانی در این زمینه غیر قابل قبول است. هر انسان شرافتمندی در هر گوشه از جهان البته باید که در این زمینه گامی هر چند کوچک برداشته و دولتهای جهان را تحت فشار گذارد که به این همه قساوت قلب و بی شرافتی و تروریسم دولتی پایان دهند

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Since the establishment of the Islamic Republic of Iran in 1979:

• Iranian citizens are excluded from legal and constitutional immunity. The accused are ineligible for due process within the Iranian judicial system, and are not permitted to secure a defense in court.

• More than seven thousand political prisoners were summarily executed in the summer of 1988, in the Islamic Republic’s various prisons. High level religious leaders including, but not limited to, the grand Ayatollah Montazeri (the original successor to the Ayatollah Khomeini), have verified and repeatedly condemned these executions.

• Hundreds of political activists and pro-democracy leaders have been assassinated in the country and abroad by the agents of the Islamic regime.

• To this day, the stoning of women and execution of pro-democracy activists in Iran is a daily practice.

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Είμαστε απλοί άνθρωποι. Είμαστε σαν κι εσάς: άνθρωποι που κάθε πρωί πηγαίνουν να σπουδάσουν, να εργαστούν ή να βρουν δουλειά, άνθρωποι που έχουν οικογένεια και φίλους. Είμαστε άνθρωποι που εργάζονται σκληρά κάθε ημέρα για να ζήσουν και να προσφέρουν ένα καλύτερο μέλλον στους γύρω μας.

Κάποιοι από εμάς είναι προοδευτικοί, κάποιοι άλλοι συντηρητικοί. Μερικοί έχουν «πιστεύω», μερικοί δεν έχουν. Μερικοί έχουν συγκεκριμένη ιδεολογία, και άλλοι είναι απολίτικοι. Ολοι μας όμως είμαστε ανήσυχοι και θυμωμένοι από τις πολιτικές, οικονομικές και κοινωνικές εξελίξεις που βλέπουμε γύρω μας. Από τη διαφθορά των πολιτικών, των επιχειρηματιών, των τραπεζιτών... Από το ότι οι απλοί άνθρωποι αισθάνονται αβοήθητοι.

Αυτή η κατάσταση μας πληγώνει όλους καθημερινά. Ομως αν ενωθούμε μπορούμε να την αλλάξουμε. Ήρθε η ώρα να ξεκινήσουμε το χτίσιμο μιας καλύτερης κοινωνίας.

Πιστεύουμε ότι:

-Προτεραιότητα για κάθε προηγμένη κοινωνία πρέπει να είναι η ισότητα, η πρόοδος, η αλληλεγγύη, η ελευθερία της συμμετοχής στον πολιτισμό, την οικολογική βιωσιμότητα και την ανάπτυξη, την ευημερία και την ευτυχία των ανθρώπων.

-Υπάρχουν βασικά δικαιώματα που πρέπει να προστατεύονται στην κοινωνία μας: το δικαίωμα στη στέγαση, την απασχόληση, τον πολιτισμό, την υγεία, την εκπαίδευση, την πολιτική συμμετοχή, την ελεύθερη προσωπική ανάπτυξη, τα δικαιώματα του καταναλωτή, το δικαίωμα για μια υγειή και ευτυχισμένη ζωή.

-Με τον τρόπο που λειτουργούν σήμερα η κυβέρνηση και το οικονομικό μας σύστημα αδυνατούν να αντιμετωπίσουν αυτές τις προτεραιότητες και αυτό αποτελεί πλέον εμπόδιο για την πρόοδο των ανθρώπων.

-Δημοκρατία σημαίνει κυβέρνηση του λαού (δήμος = λαός, κράτος = κυβέρνηση), και αυτό θα πρέπει να συμβαίνει. Αντίθετα, ξέρουμε όλοι ότι το πολιτικό μας σύστημα δεν θέλει καν μας ακούσει. Το καθήκον τους θα έπρεπε να είναι να μεταφέρουν τη φωνή μας στα εθνικά και διεθνή θεσμικά όργανα, να διευκολύνουν την συμμετοχή των πολιτών μέσα από κανάλια άμεσης επικοινωνίας, να λειτουργούν προς όφελος της ευρύτερης κοινωνίας και όχι υπέρ των πλουσίων που ευημερούν εις βάρος μας, όχι ακολουθώντας πιστά μονάχα τις προσταγές των μεγάλων οικονομικών συμφερόντων τα οποία έχουν επιβάλει τη δικτατορία και την κομματοκρατία.

-Η συγκέντρωση της εξουσίας στα χέρια των λίγων παράγει ανισότητα, προκαλεί εντάσεις, φέρνει αδικία, η οποία οδηγεί στη βία. Κι εμείς την απορρίπτουμε.Το απαρχαιωμένο οικονομικό μοντέλο παγιδεύει την ατμομηχανή της κοινωνίας μέσα σε ένα φαύλο κύκλο όπου οι λίγοι πλούσιοι γίνονται πλουσιότεροι και οι πολλοί βουλιάζουν στη φτώχεια τη μιζέρια. Και έτσι καταρρέουμε. Μοναδικός σκοπός του συστήματος είναι η συσσώρευση κεφαλαίων σε βάρος της αποτελεσματικότητας και της ευημερίας της κοινωνίας.

-Η σπατάλη πόρων οδηγεί στην καταστροφή του πλανήτη, δημιουργώντας ανεργία και οι καταναλωτές πολίτες αποτελούν μέρος του κέντρου βάρους σε ένα μηχάνημα σχεδιασμένο να εμπλουτίσει μια μειοψηφία που δεν ξέρει τις ανάγκες μας.

-Είμαστε ανώνυμοι αλλά χωρίς εμάς τίποτα δεν θα μπορούσε να υπάρξει, καθώς εμείς κινούμε τον κόσμο. Αν σαν κοινωνία μάθουμε να μην εμπιστευόμαστε αφηρημένες οικονομικές αποδόσεις που ποτέ δεν ωφελούν τους πολλούς, μπορούμε να εξαλείψουμε τις καταχρήσεις και τις ελλείψεις από τις οποίες σήμερα όλοι υποφέρουμε. Χρειάζεται μια ηθική επανάσταση... Είμαστε άνθρωποι, όχι προϊόντα σε μια αγορά…

Για όλα τα παραπάνω, είμαι εξοργισμένος.
Νομίζω ότι μπορώ να το αλλάξουμε.
Νομίζω ότι μπορώ να βοηθήσω.
Ξέρω ότι μαζί μπορούμε.
Παρέα με εμάς. Είναι δικαίωμά σας.

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To all respected news media and Human Rights organizations,

Three years ago, in the month of Muharram 2008, the Iraqi Government forces along with American and British forces attacked a group of followers of Imam Ahmad Al-Hassan in the cities of Basra and Al-Nasiriyah. The Iraqi government admitted that they killed 400 in the attack. When they arrested the rest of the Ansar in Basra and sent them to Baghdad, they let them loose after it was made known through interrogation that they did not commit any crimes.

So what is the difference in the events of Al Nasiriyah?

Those that were attacked in Al Nasiriyah by some scholars and the higher council group, were tortured with the worse kind of torture in the governor's house. We ask the question... are there prisoners that are transferred to the house of the governor and tortured at the hands of some scholars?

By what law is that?

Then they arranged for them a trial and with false confessions that they wrote, and they judged them with execution. And when this case turned into discrimination, it remained for two years after the discrimination court decided to counter the judgment, but there are political pressures upon the discrimination court to validate the judgments.

Finally some of the Scholars and the Higher council took advantage of the crimes of Al Qaeda and the people's demands to prosecute them and execute them to pass the execution of 24 of the followers of Imam Ahmad Al-Hassan and life imprisonment to 15 of the Ansar with them.

The Matter of validating the judgment of executing the Ansar is a political execution 100 percent, as there are political forces who wish to execute the Ansar along with the wave of Al Qaeda criminal executions, which in no way relate.

The Iraqi government has confessed to the crime of killing 400, only due to their religious beliefs, and we ask, is this the new democracy that is being built in Iraq? As you read this, they are in the process of executing another 24, who have committed no crime, and imprisoning another 15 to life sentences, due to their religious beliefs.

Accompanied Files:

The Martyr Mujtava who was shot and left to bleed to death while being beat in the incidents that took place in the infamous month of Muharram.
http://vb.al-mehdyoon.org/t9814.html

See how the big scholars are inciting violence against the Ansar simply because of their belief.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QV-4FWKQ2dc

Al Fayad is here clearly asking the government to obliterate and bury the Ansar of Imam Mahdi a.s. in their place:
http://www.alfayadh.com/site/index.php? ... icle&id=41

The burning of the Library of the Ansar in Basra
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymUGpZLA2AA

Archive of photos of the destruction of the Husseiniya and Mosque of the Ansar of Imam Mahdi a.s.
http://vb.al-mehdyoon.org/t2119.html

http://www.amnesty.org/ar/news-and-updates/news/iraq-executions-follow-apparently-unfair-trials-20080418

EVERY NIGHT AT 9pm Mecca Time - the show- by what law is this? concerning what is happening against the Ansar, so join in the paltalk room
http://vb.al-mehdyoon.org/room.php

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The Local Government of Budapest wants to impose very strict rules on street-music, they want to prohibit playing in undergrounds.

This would not only deprive me and other street-musicians of make a living during winter, but would make a colorful, entertaining, cultural aspect of Budapest streets disappear.

Please support my goal, and give a chance to the musicians and to the music.

"Music belongs to Everyone"(Kodály)

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בחודש ספטמבר הקרוב, הרשות הפלסטינית, תוך הפרה ברורה של הסכמי שלום עליהם חתמה עם מדינת ישראל, מתכננת לבקש מהאו"ם להכיר ב"מדינה פלסטינית", על שטחים אשר עודם נמצאים במחלוקת, בצעד חד צדדי וללא הגעה להסכם עם מדינת ישראל. לאור צעד חד צדדי זה, למדינת ישראל לא נותר אלא להגיב בצעד חד צדדי מצידה, היה והרשות הפלסטינית תבצע את ההפרה.

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We, the undersigned appeal to your organisation NOT to grant permission to hold the event in Bahrain given the current situation in the country.

The Kingdom of Bahrain is currently under martial law after the government's lethal crackdown on peaceful pro-democracy demonstrations in March 2011.

Some 30+ unarmed civilians have been killed by security forces (some at point-blank range or as the result of torture). Alleged supporters of the protests have been beaten up by masked government security personnel, arrested at roadblocks and taken from their homes mainly in the 70% majority Shia villages. Some have died in custody.

100's of civilians have gone missing including men, women, children, medical personnel, human rights supporters and pro-democracy politicians.

Secret military trials of civilians have begun with no right of access to independent legal counsel. Four individuals have now been sentenced to death.

There is now no free media in the country and electronic communication is routinely monitored, blocked and throttled.

In a sectarian witch-hunt by the government, 1,000+ individuals have been sacked from their jobs for allegedly participating in the demonstrations. Students have been expelled from schools and universities and some studying overseas have had financial grants withdrawn and threats made against them for supporting the peaceful democracy movement.

By allowing the Bahrain authorities to go ahead with the Bahrain Grand Prix, the FIA would communicate to the international community that the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile, Formula One Management, its sponsors and participants condone the human rights abuses being committed by the Al-Khalifa government on its own people.

Related resources:

Amnesty International - A Human Rights Crisis

Medecins Sans Frontieres

Bahrain Center for Human Rights

Ratification of International Human Rights Treaties - Bahrain

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Quoting from the Museum of Broadcast Communications:

“The policy of the United States Federal Communications Commission that became known as the “Fairness Doctrine” is an attempt to ensure that all coverage of controversial issues by a broadcast station be balanced and fair. The FCC took the view, in 1949, that station licensees were “public trustees”, and as such had an obligation to afford reasonable opportunity for discussion of contrasting points of view on controversial issues of public importance. The Commission later held that stations were also obligated to actively seek out issues of importance to their community and air programming that addressed those issues. With the deregulation sweep of the Reagan Administration during the 1980s, the Commission dissolved the fairness doctrine. 1”

“The fairness doctrine ran parallel to Section 315 of the Communications Act of 1937 which required stations to offer “equal opportunity” to all legally qualified political candidates for any office if they had allowed any person running in that office to use the station. The attempt was to balance–to force an even handedness. Section 315 exempted news programs, interviews and documentaries. But the doctrine would include such efforts. Another major difference should be noted here: Section 315 was federal law, passed by Congress. The fairness doctrine was simply FCC policy. 1”

“By 1985, the FCC issued its Fairness Report, asserting that the doctrine was no longer having its intended effect, might actually have a “chilling effect” and might be in violation of the First Amendment. In a 1987 case, Meredith Corp. v. FCC, the courts declared that the doctrine was not mandated by Congress and the FCC did not have to continue to enforce it. The FCC dissolved the doctrine in August of that year. 1”

The Congress voted to enact the Fairness Doctrine into law; however, it was vetoed by President Regan. The second attempt ran out of support with a threatened veto by President Bush the First. Today, we find, “there is no required balance of controversial issues as mandated by the fairness doctrine. The public relies instead on the judgment of broadcast journalists and its own reasoning ability to sort out one-sided or distorted coverage of an issue. 1”

A license permits broadcasting, but the licensee has no constitutional right to be the one who holds the license or to monopolize a...frequency to the exclusion of his fellow citizens. There is nothing in the First Amendment which prevents the Government from requiring a licensee to share his frequency with others.... It is the right of the viewers and listeners, not the right of the broadcasters, which is paramount.

— U.S. Supreme Court, upholding the constitutionality of the Fairness Doctrine in Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. FCC, 1969.

The fairness doctrine would bring back serious discourse, lengthier soundbites and deeper debates; it will not stifle dissent or free speech it will invite and embrace all voices.

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The Crown Prince of Bahrain has accepted an invitation by the British government to attend the Royal Wedding on 29 April.

The Kingdom of Bahrain is currently under martial law after the government's lethal crackdown on peaceful pro-democracy demonstrations in March 2011.

Some 25+ unarmed civilians have been killed by security forces (some at point-blank range). Alleged supporters of the demonstrations have been beaten up by masked government security personnel and arrested at roadblocks and in their homes.

Some 800+ individuals have gone missing including men, women, children and medical personnel. The whereabouts of most remain unknown. Many continue to be tortured while under arrest.

In a witch-hunt by the government, 1,000+ individuals have been sacked from their jobs for allegedly participating in the demonstrations. Students have been expelled from schools and universities and some studying overseas (including Britain) have had financial grants withdrawn and threats made against them for supporting the peaceful democracy movement.

Useful Resources:

Amnesty International - A Human Rights Crisis
http://bit.ly/gYneNu

Medecins Sans Frontieres
http://www.msf.org.uk/Bahrain_Report__20110407.news

Bahrain Center for Human Rights
http://www.bahrainrights.org/en

BBC
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/9458855.stm

Many more news links available at http://www.thepearlroundabout.org

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I believe that a society functions best when all of its citizens feel safe, and free. I believe that this can be achieved in a truly democratic society with laws based on the Declaration of Human Rights. There might be a better system, but I believe that the best way to find that out is for all of us to be safe and free enough to discuss this.

If you believe the same, please sign this petition - no matter where in the world you live. One of our main resources is the human resource. Lets together tell the leaders of the world that we want societies in which we can harvest this resource in the best way possible. Leaders of the world - join in and tell each other the same.

If you think that you live in a country that already has a good democracy, please note that in the comment field and sign for the rest of the world. If you have a suggestion on how democracy can work better, in the world and/or in your country - use the comment field to add your thoughts. If the space there is not enough - write a blog or similar, and post a link in the comment field.

Please note that GoPetition.com save your IP address when you sign - they do inform clearly about this and have a good privacy policy. Nevertheless, be aware of this - no one can guarantee 100% internet security.

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The Gillard government was never voted in by the people of Australia. Since forming a new government they have consistently broken promises and disregarded the wishes of the public.

It is time for the people of Australia to recognise that they do have a voice and can use it to vote in a government.

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The current governing party of Canada has issued a directive that reference to "Government of Canada" should be replaced by "Harper Government" in federal communications.

In changing the long-standing terminology "Government of Canada", the current governing party is seeking to equate its leader, Stephen Harper, with the act of governing this country. (Taken from "I Am (Not Stephen Harper's) Canadian" petition.)
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The order has gone out from the Prime Ministers Office that Canadian Government Departments "no" longer call our Government 'The Canadian Government'. It seems we are now governed by' The Harper Government'

This is an action you might expect to see in a third World dictatorship country, not in a free and democratic Country like Canada.

Canadians are appalled at this action and we refuse to accept this 're-branding' of OUR country for the selfish political gain of one man. We feel this is a very serious matter and not something to be ignored.

We are sending the message to Stephen Harper that the Government in Canada is the Canadian Government. It is not Stephen Harper's Government. It is OUR government. My government, your government, Canada's Government, the government of every Canadian.

We wish to make it clear that Canadians DO care, very much, about the state of our Government.

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The current governing party of Canada has issued a directive that reference to "Government of Canada" should be replaced by "Harper Government" in federal communications.

In changing the long-standing terminology "Government of Canada", the current governing party is seeking to equate its leader, Stephen Harper, with the the act of governing this country.

As a democracy, Canada is not run by one individual. It is a country run by an elected body, which is accountable to the people and answerable to the opposition.

In the words of Abraham Lincoln, "Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people."

The government of Canada is not Stephen Harper and Stephen Harper is not the government of Canada.

The government of Canada is the people and the people are the government of Canada.

One collective body, not one man, forms this government and make this country a beautiful place.

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Contexte :
Le Parti conservateur, parti actuellement au pouvoir au Canada, a émis une directive voulant que toute référence au « Gouvernement du Canada » dans les communiqués issus des ministères soit remplacée par « Gouvernement Harper ».

En remplaçant l’appellation traditionnelle « Gouvernement du Canada », le parti au pouvoir tente de mettre de l’avant son leader, Stephen Harper, comme le centre de l’activité gouvernementale.

En tant que démocratie, le Canada n’est pas dirigé par une seule personne, mais plutôt par un parti élu par le peuple, lequel est tenu de rendre compte à la population canadienne ainsi qu’à l’opposition.

Pour reprendre les termes du président américain Abraham Lincoln, « La démocratie, c’est le gouvernement du peuple, par le peuple, pour le peuple ».

Le gouvernement du Canada n’est pas le gouvernement de Stephen Harper et Stephen Harper n’est pas le gouvernement du Canada.

Le gouvernement du Canada, c’est le gouvernement du peuple, et le peuple est le gouvernement du Canada.

Ce gouvernement est constitué d’un regroupement de personnes élues; il ne repose pas sur un seul homme, ce qui fait du Canada un merveilleux endroit où il fait bon vivre.

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Currently there is no provision for Citizens' Initiated Referendums basically because it then gives the citizens of Australia a REAL say in how the country is run.

There are at the moment at least three matters on which the Australian public should be allowed to make the decision.

Ist - The immigration of illegal boat people - which includes Muslims. Current polls show that around 70% of Australians are against this as these people do NOT integrate and cause dissent within our communities.

2nd - Climate change. No real figures have been produced to support Global Warming and in fact, most figures available show that cooling and warming are a natural events. Volcanoes produce more CO2 per day than man does in 10 years. The government is merely using the panic to introduce a Carbon Tax.

3rd - National Broadband Network. This is NOT needed. Government is looking at a download speed of 12 Megabits a second when we are currently getting 8 MB/S. This is well and truly sufficient. Country areas should be provided with satellite downloads at the same cost as ADSL and the NBN should be scrapped as the predicted $37 BILLION cost will no doubt blow out and the funding can be well used elsewhere.

The Australian people have a right to decide these individual issues as politicians vote only on party lines and NOT as their constituents wish.

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Article 20 of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, of which the nation of Iran is a sponsor and co-signatory, and Article 27 of the Iranian Constitution, to which the government of Iran is bound by law, each provide for peaceful freedom of assembly by unarmed protesters as a basic human right to freely speak and express themselves in an open and unrestricted public forum.

طبق ماده ۲۰ اعلامیه جهانی حقوق بشر، که کشور ایران حامی و امضا،کننده آن میباشد و ماده 27 از قانون اساسی ایران، که دولت ایران طبق قانون موظف به اجرای آن است، آزادی تجمع مسالمت آمیز را توسط معترضان غیر مسلح به عنوان یک حق اساسی انسانی فراهم نموده تا آزادانه کلام خود را در انجمن های عمومی بصورت باز و نامحدود بیان کنند.

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Election for all the positions that manage our lives and Country.

After what Egyptians have been through from corruption, abuse, mental and physical torture for the past 60 years. We have to ensure a new way of living and not leaving people like the old Cabinets, yes Cabinets not only this one but the one before that and the one before that plus governors that manage our day to day live style and streets.


Why should we live in dirty streets have mini buses and other types of cars suffocate us, fall on a crooked sidewalk, not be able to implement projects with solutions for our countries defaults, etc…. History has a lot of issue and I’m sure each one of us can come up with tons of reasons.

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Hadleigh Park Lawn Tennis Club wishes to build a new clubhouse at unfavourable site, disturbing long-established badgers and their sett, and residents. There is room for the new clubhouse at other sites within the grounds, yet it has been earmarked for erection at the most intrusive place.

Castle Point Borough Council rejected the scheme by six votes to one. It is opposed by, not just local residents but also, local councillors and Rebecca Harris MP.

The clubhouse would damage and disturb the residents’ environment much more than the club and many of its players already do, and that of the active badger sett on the east side of the club grounds.

Hadleigh Park Lawn Tennis Club is a PRIVATE members-only club, behind locked gates, and these facts conflict with Veolia’s grant conditions, as set by Entrust and its regulations.

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The result of the Australian Federal election of 2010 was an absolute farce and a major insult to Democracy. A country that is proud of its ability to enforce a Government that is fair to all, has suffered for probably the first time in these circumstances.
The election determined that no political party was able to form a majority government. This meant that any independents were able to control who would take up office and form the Government. However, the four independents that was in this position decided to milk it all for what it is worth; big noting themselves in order to improve their careers and bank balance. (One example that should be noted is MP Tony Windsor, who was offered by Labor to take up the position of speaker in the House of Representatives, reflected in his decision to back Labor).

Another example that brings this to bear is the admission by two particular independents that if an election were to be re-held, the Coalition would almost assuredly win. This proves that those independent MP’s know that the census of the citizens of Australia WANT the Coalition to be in power as opposed to Labor. And by the independents backing Labor, is evidence of their inability to represent the people of this country, and also evidence of their personal agendas.

This petition will be a show of support that the Australian Democratic System needs to be overhauled to prevent this from happening again in future elections. But it also is a show of support for a re-election of Federal Government to take place to determine the party that the citizens of Australia want in power.

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The purpose of this petition is to force the government into granting the British public a referendum on the UK’s continued membership of the EU and bring democracy back to our political process.

This is the case for a referendum.

1. Labour won an election in 2005 on a manifesto pledge to give the British people a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, but just two years later the Government under Tony Blair signed up to the treaty without consulting the British people in a referendum as promised.

2. Before the recent general election David Miliband described the Lisbon Treaty as merely a tidying up exercise that would make things run smoother. He claimed it did not reduce the UK’s sovereignty in any way.

3. In January 2008 David Cameron the Conservative leader widened his pledge of a referendum on the EU reform treaty, saying that the Tories would hold one if they gained power before it was ratified in all countries, even if it has already been ratified by the British Parliament. But he stopped short of meeting the wishes of party Eurosceptics who wanted him to promise a referendum even after the treaty has been ratified by the rest of the EU, a position that ministers claim would lead to a Tory government being forced to pull out of the EU.

4. David Cameron said in November 2009 before the general election The Conservative campaign to hold a referendum on the Lisbon treaty is now over. Confirming a complete U-turn on his "cast iron guarantee" that a Tory government would hold a public vote on the controversial treaty, Cameron said the Czech Republic's decision to ratify the agreement meant he could "no more hold a referendum on the treaty than ... a referendum on the sun rising in the morning.". Since when did the Czech Republic decide what happens in the UK.

5. At the lectern during the televised Leaders debates David Cameron asserted that he would ensure that no more of Britain’s sovereignty would be lost to the EU and he would in fact reverse some losses and yet Teresa May The Home Secretary has already agreed for Britain to Opt into the European Investigation Order which gives EU police forces sweeping powers to come to Britain and this less than three months into the new government. Teresa May described the pt in as just a tidying up exercise, does that sound familiar. What will this government give away next?

6. It is now 1st November and yesterday it was announced by the EU that their new Foreign Affairs Department created at a cost of £5.8 billion will take over all common interest ideas of the 27 EU countries. This will reduce Britains sovereignty without question but still the Prime Minister refuses to do the democratic thing and give us the people of the UK the referendum we deserve.

The above proves that successive governments and political parties cannot be trusted. They say one thing before an election and do something completely different afterwards. They depend on the electorate having short memories. A referendum on signing up to the Lisbon Treaty is now totally inadequate what we need is a referendum on the UK’s continued membership of the EU. Why?

1 The UK pays £40m pounds into the EU every day, despite us being in the worst economic recession in living memory.

2 The EU wants to increase its budget by 6% in 2011 this despite every EU country exercising austerity programmes.

3 The EU gives away more than €38 billion in Foreign aid each year, that is more than half of the total world budget for foreign aid, The United Kingdom gives away an additional £7.6 billion.

4 There is unfettered EU immigration into Britain from the EU despite promises to the contrary from our leaders. Now David Cameron actively encourages the accession to the EU of Turkey. Do you want another 74 million people having the legal right to come to Britain. Hungary and Portugal are about to give away 5 million passports to residents of non-EU countries legally under EU law, again these people will have a full legal right to come to Britain.

5 The population of the UK rose in 2009 by 421,000 people due mostly to immigration and births to immigrant families. At the same time the population of France grew by only 35,000 and the population of Germany actually shrunk. Britain is a dumping ground.

6 Britain’s health service, education system, housing, benefits system and infrastructure are already stretched to the limit ahead of proposed government cuts to claw back the country’s £176 billion debt. How can the country afford to take in more immigrants be they from the EU or not.

7 Seventy five percent of new laws come to the UK from the EU. I want the laws in our country to be decided by our elected representatives, not faceless bureaucrats in a foreign country.

The Europhiles will say the EU is all about trade and the free movement of labour. Make no mistake Europe needs our goods, services, expertise and financial services industry. They will always deal with us as they always have; many countries from outside the EU have trade treaties that allow free trading to take place. There is a world market which Britain is part of. Leaving Europe will not alter our lives in any detrimental way, instead it will leave the country free to decide its own fate and laws, it will prevent millions of people having access to our shores and all the benefits that the British taxpayer is paying for, it will stop the drain on our financial resources that the country can ill afford.

But most of all it will bring freedom and democracy back to our country that thousands of our grandparents and parents died for in two world wars.

Please sign this petition; we need millions of signatures so that this government is forced to offer us the referendum that our supposed democracy has denied us for so many years. Please pass the details of this petition onto all your friends, relatives, associates, colleagues so that we can force this government to take notice.

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The media has reported incidents of racism at TEA Party rallies. Though unsubstantiated in many cases, there is some evidence of this. The goal of this petition is to condemn any sign of racism at any TEA Party event or Town Hall meetings around the country.

By signing this petition, you pledge to condemn racism in politics at every level. The petition signatures will be forwarded to the media, in hopes that they will report this effort.

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With a new government in place, a review is being conducted of online services, including e-petitions. This has resulted in the e-petitions service being suspended until review. Existing e-petitions, submitted to the previous administration, are not being carried forward to the new administration as part of this process.

E-petitions that were live at the time of the election announcement on 6 April, when the e-petitions system was suspended, will therefore not be reopened for signatures. The present government has stated that they will respond to e-petitions that had exceeded the 500 signature threshold as of 6 April 2010.

We believe that this disregard for the legitimate concerns of the people of Britain is extremely damaging to our democracy, as it drastically limits the ways in which our voices can be heard.

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We believe that it is important to include politics education into personal and social education in secondary schools. Many leave school with little or no understanding of the importance of politics and the impact that it has on their everyday lives.

We believe that this lack of understanding leads to ignorance and apathy.

This matter is even more important considering that there have been campaigns to reduce the voting age to 16.

It is our opinion that many do not understand , or appreciate the value of their vote, and that this needs to be addressed in order to have a true democracy.

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