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North American Committee to Aid Spanish Democracy


North American Committee to Aid Spanish Democracy was an American organization established in 1936. It was an umbrella organization for ethnic groups and trade unions. The ethnic groups and trade unions donated money, medical necessities and food to Spain through the North American Committee to Aid Spanish Democracy. These donations were sent to Republicans during the Spanish Civil War. North American Committee to Aid Spanish Democracy was identified as a Communist front linked to the Communist Party USA. Historian Peter N. Carroll describes this organization as a "Popular Front organization that attracted Communists
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1989, the Organization for Popular Democracy - Labour Movement. In 1991 they renounced Marxism-Leninism and transformed their Marxism-Leninism into a form of popular democrat philosophy. Václav Havel's civil-society-centered democratic Czechoslovakia was considered another form of popular democracy by some. In 1996 the popular democratic Organization for Popular Democracy - Labour Movement created the Congress for Democracy and Progress, being the current ruling party in Burkina Faso. The internet is sometimes considered as a vital part or an example of modern popular democratic practices. Some
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Corruption in Afghanistan


said that these developments perpetuated a culture of kleptocracy and signaled that any official can loot the Afghan budget, while anyone can invest with no questions asked. A 2013 report by the "Daily Beast" stated that Mahkdoom Raheen, formerly a democracy-supporting professor who became Minister of Information and Culture under Karzai, a close friend, had engaged in massive corruption. After Indian philanthropist Madanjeet Singh donated $1 million to rehabilitate Kabul's Cultural Heritage Center and train art preservationists, Raheen embezzled nearly all of Singh's donation, depositing
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Center for Popular Democracy


The Center for Popular Democracy (CPD) is an American advocacy group that promotes progressive politics. CPD is a federation of groups that includes some of the old chapters of ACORN. The group's stated goal is to "envision and win an innovative pro-worker, pro-immigrant, racial and economic justice agenda." The organization is allied with teachers’ unions and has published studies criticizing charter schools. The organization gained national prominence during the protests over Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the United States Supreme Court. One of
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Tiger Mask donation phenomenon


The Tiger Mask donation phenomenon is a series of donations of "randoseru" (school backpacks) and other items to orphanages around Japan. The first donation happened when someone left ten 30,000-yen backpacks at a child guidance center in Gunma Prefecture on Christmas Day in 2010. A note attached to the bags was signed "Naoto Date", the real name of the titular character of "Tiger Mask", a popular 1960s and 70s manga about a wrestler who fought for orphans, being raised in an orphanage himself. Since the initial
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Popular democracy


Al Gathafi wrote The Green Book, where he defends his political system as a form of "direct and popular democracy" based on the will of the people instead of representative parliaments. After the fall of Ferdinand Marcos in 1986 it was created in the Philippines a research and advocacy centre called Institute for Popular Democracy, who frequently criticizes "elite politics" and defends reformist local social movements. Some Burkinabé Communists founded a group who supported a Marxist-Leninist People's Democracy (though with a free-market economic plan) in
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Democracy Alliance


The Democracy Alliance is a network of progressive donors who coordinate their political donations to groups that the Alliance has endorsed. As of 2015, the organization has approximately 110 partners who are required to contribute at least $200,000 a year to groups the Democracy Alliance vets and recommends. The Alliance has helped distribute approximately $500 million to liberal organizations since its founding in 2005. Members of the Democracy Alliance include billionaires George Soros and Tom Steyer. The Democracy Alliance planned to spend $374 million during the 2014 midterm election cycle to boost
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Democratic Revival


"politically to the center. Socially, however, as Christians, we surpass all forms of social leftism and progressivism". Papathemelis has stated that Democratic Revival is made up of "groups and cadres which, naturally, come from diverse political positions. With us is Christian Democracy, a movement of the Christian left with history. With us are many cadres from Democratic Social Movement. With us are cadres from PASOK, and cadres from even New Democracy. With us also are cadres from Popular Orthodox Rally who left and recently
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Kirk Douglas


in December 2015, they donated another $15 million to help expand the facility with a new two-story Kirk Douglas Care Pavilion. Douglas has donated a number of playgrounds in Jerusalem, and donated the Kirk Douglas Theater at the Aish Center across from the Western Wall. The couple have been involved in numerous volunteer and philanthropic activities. They traveled to more than 40 countries, at their own expense, to act as goodwill ambassadors for the U.S. Information Agency, speaking to audiences about why democracy works and what freedom means.
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, which may be understood as a form of Maoist people's democracy but based more on popular participation and less on Vanguard parties. Whitman wrote Democratic Vistas in answer to criticism of universal suffrage and full democracy of Thomas Carlyle in "Latter-Day Pamphlets", who considered the popular democratic system to be too many rights given to uneducated masses of the people, as rule should be kept in the hands of highly educated people and aristocrats. These criticisms have been repeated numerous times as a way of showing popular democracy as just
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Robson Bonnichsen


Robson Bonnichsen (3 December 1940 – 25 December 2004) was an anthropologist who undertook pioneering research in First American studies, popularized the field and founded the Center for the Study of Early Man at the University of Maine (Orono) in 1981. Dr. Bonnichsen, an associate professor of Anthropology and Quaternary studies, created the Center and served as its first Director. The establishment of the Center was made possible through a generous donation by the Bingham Trust. In 1990, the name of the Center was changed to the Center for
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be considered a popular democrat for his support of a democracy based on popular sovereignty. Teddy Roosevelt is considered a defender of a popular democrat insurgency against big business and elitism. In the end of the first half of the 20th century, the Christian democratic parties preferred the term "popular democrats" to Christian democrats. In post-independence India, popular democracy, together with economic and social liberalism and hindu nationalism, is considered one of the main currents who tried to define Indian politics since 1947. Iran is sometimes referred as
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Bruce Karsh


In 2018, Mr. and Mrs. Karsh donated $43.9 million to the University of Virginia School of Law. This gift is the largest in school history and makes the couple the first people to donate $50 million dollars to the school. The money will be focused on student scholarships and the founding of the Karsh Center for Law and Democracy. Karsh is married to Martha Karsh, an attorney and co-founder of Clark & Karsh, an architecture firm. They live in Beverly Hills, California and have three children, a
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2011 Hong Kong local elections


the democracy camp parties. Other than Lai, there seems to be nobody else in HK donating to the democracy camps any more. According to Emily Lau, first there is definitely a question of transparency with regards to who is donating money. There is also the issue of revealing donors. The "WSJ" believed that the taboo on discussing the activities of the Communist Party of China implies the Hong Kong government will never pass a law governing political parties. It added: "As a result, donor transparency will never be
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Peace Center


The Peace Center is a performing arts center located in Greenville, South Carolina. It is composed of a concert hall, theater, and amphitheatre. It is located adjacent to Falls Park. It hosts over 300 events each year, including classical music, Broadway shows, and appearances by popular artists such as David Copperfield. The Peace Center is named after the local Peace family who donated $10 million towards its development. The center was opened in 1990 and is built on the former site of three dilapidated factories - one building
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Friedrich Ebert Foundation


grounds. Funding for this program comes exclusively from donations from current and former grantees. The program have helped over 1,000 students. Currently there are 31 students who are in the solidarity programme. Two grantees from this programme are chosen every year at the conference in Bonn to work on the steering committee of the fund. The historical research center of the foundation also contains the Archive of Social Democracy and its libraries in Bonn and at the Karl Marx House in Trier. This is one of the largest collections of documents on social history
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Trayon White


, however, proved to be an agile fundraiser. By the end of March, May had $184,000 in donations compared to White's $12,000. May proved highly popular among healthcare companies and real estate developers, and her donation network spread nationwide. White, on the other hand, won several key endorsements. In mid-April, 90 percent of the voting members of the progressive group D.C. For Democracy voted to endorse White. On May 14, White won the Ward 8 Democratic party straw poll. With only 200
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Ferguson Syllabus


given voice to those most hurt by the failures of leadership, capitalism, and democracy. Freedom Ferguson Library is a campaign asking people who benefited from learning from the Ferguson syllabus to consider donating an item to an under-resourced school, prison literacy program, or community center. Professor Marcia Chatelain has asked that people write (or make a nameplate) with a message including the words, Ferguson Freedom Library. The expression Freedom Library comes from the Freedom Summer Project of 1964. Civil rights activists created Freedom Schools to educate children
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1973 Thai popular uprising


curb inflation and prevent rice shortages. Benedict Anderson, a Southeast Asia scholar, has argued that despite the power and credibility they lent to the movement, the Thai middle class were far less concerned about the students' goals than they were dissatisfied with social and economic changes affecting their lives. In its idealism, the NSCT decided to use the donations they had gathered during October 1973 to educate villagers about democracy and its processes. The Democracy Propagation Program began in earnest over the few months after the new regime was installed and "
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Confederation of Democracy


The Confederation of Democracy (, CODE) was an electoral alliance of center-right Chilean political parties formed in July 1972. Its main purpose was to unite all the opposition parties of the Popular Unity government to face the parliamentary elections on March 1973. Its main objective was to optimize the collection of votes and seats, and accomplish the majority of Congress and thus obtain at least two thirds of the deputies. Between the opposition to the Popular Unity government, there were two opposing views. On the one hand the National Party
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Party subsidies


are granted to a political competitor who has proven to a government authority that he or she solicited small individual donations. Tax credits can be deducted by the taxpayer from tax liability because some part of a political donation is treated like an advance payment on tax. Because matching funds and tax credits depend on financial contributions by individual citizens such support is more compatible with a participatory concept of democracy than flat grants, which do not require specific efforts by the fundraising parties (or candidates). In many democracies public funding for political parties
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FairVote


FairVote (formerly the Center for Voting and Democracy) is a 501(c)(3) organization that advocates electoral reform in the United States. Founded in 1992 as Citizens for Proportional Representation to support the implementation of proportional representation in American elections, the organization in 1993 became the Center for Voting and Democracy and in 2004 changed its name to FairVote to reflect its support of such platforms as ranked choice voting (RCV), for single-winner elections, a national popular vote for president, a right to vote amendment to the Constitution, and
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Politics of Mongolia


officially permitted to function. After some instability during the first two decades of communist rule in Mongolia, there was no significant popular unrest until December 1989. Collectivization of livestock, introduction of agriculture, and the extension of fixed abodes were all carried out without perceptible popular opposition. The birth of perestroika in the former Soviet Union and the democracy movement in Eastern Europe were seen in Mongolia. On the morning of 10 December 1989, the first open pro-democracy demonstration met in front of the Youth Cultural Center in Ulaanbaatar. There
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Center for Union Facts


including the “burning of a Quaker meetinghouse being built by a non-union contractor,” the arrest of a union official on charges of physically assaulting New York police officers, an unacknowledged change in policy by the Center for Media and Democracy in regard to accepting union donations, and the “radical path” taken by the Detroit teachers' union. CUF has created a number of websites that describe particular unions in negative terms including: Representatives of the CUF have discussed issues on Fox Business, CNN, CNBC, and other
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Campaign for Peace and Democracy


by the Campaign, but after 1989 the group expressed its dismay that the kind of radical democracy implicit in Polish Solidarity was eclipsed in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union by "the dogma that democracy means submission to blind market forces and the laws of social Darwinism". It spoke out against the imposition of "shock therapy" policies which sought to replace the old Communist system not with economies centered on popular needs but instead with harsh policies that "fostered widespread economic misery". During the 1990s, CPD opposed the aggression
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Popular center of remembrance


("The Pit") and "La Favela" ("The Favela"). The head of the Intelligence Service at the time was Gendarmería Commander Agustín Feced, who sometimes took part personally in kidnappings, torture sessions and executions. Two of his foremost collaborators were José Rubén Lo Fiego, who are being investigated since 2004. After the fall of the last military junta and the return to democracy in 1983, the building continued to serve its official functions, until 2001, when human rights organizations demanded that it be
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Popular democracy


Hilary Wainwright's Reclaim the State: Experiments in Popular Democracy, a criticism of both social democracy and big government and neoliberalism and big business. The Chinese democracy movement sometimes chooses a popular democrat system as the easiest democratic model from which the People's Republic of China could evolve out of the current one-party system ("people's democracy"), something which has already been criticized as a 'sell-out' by some Chinese democracy activists. As Popular democracy is an ideal of direct and participatory democracy based on
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Popular democracy


grassroots, there aren’t exactly very defined values beyond support of this kind of democracy over more representative types. But some attempts have been made to define Popular democrat ideals based around the idea that this direct democracy is just a step for a full democracy. Some proposals of Popular democratic common values have been: Participatory budget and the policies of the Porto Alegre Forum are also associated with popular democracy by some left-wing authors. As the ideal of Popular democracy came out of prepositions of Populism (ex: popular rule in
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Popular democracy


Marxist groups consider that the current Middle East is currently prepared for and wishes popular democracy (which in this context may be referring to Marxist People's Democracy) but that the "neoconservative design upon the region" and American power prevents this. There are some signs interpreted by analysts as possibilities of popular democracy, in Nigeria, Abkhazia and Georgia. Former Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez was sometimes considered to either be practicing or simulating popular democracy. In 2003 it was published one of the main book-length appraisals of popular democracy,
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Harispattuwe Ariyawanshalankara


became a Buddhist monk in Ramanna sect in the year 2000. He obtained a doctorate at the age of 74 from University of Kelaniya. He functioned as the chief incumbent of International Vipassana Meditation Center of Colombo for 13 years, through which meditation became popular among the Buddhist laymen. He appeared in popular television shows like "Doramandalawa" in dhamma discussions and delivered many dhamma sermons, which were popular among the people. Venerable Harispattuwe Ariyawanshalankara thero was also a philanthropist who had donated money he received for the benefit of the society rather
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Popular democracy


parties in a wide range of ideologies call themselves Popular Democratic Party, Popular Democrat Party or People's Democratic Party, or even Democratic Popular Party or Democratic People's Party and support or claim to support popular sovereignty in some form of popular democracy. Alistair McConnachie writes frequent articles supporting popular democracy for the think tank Sovereignty, which he directs. Self-described Populist Harry C. Boyte adopts some popular democrat themes in his support of grassroots democracy. The Nepalese Maoists also support a socialist, non-elitist, form of popular democracy
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Islam and democracy


democracy is probably Iran's Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who mentions Islamic democracy as "Mardomsalarie Dini" in his speeches. There are also other Iranian scholars who oppose or at least criticise the concept of Islamic democracy. Among the most popular of them are Ayatollah Naser Makarem Shirazi who have written: "If not referring to the people votes would result in accusations of tyranny then it is allowed to accept people vote as a secondary commandment." Also Mohammad-Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi has more or less the same viewpoint.
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Ioannis Alevras


, and achieved re-election in 1974 Greek legislative election. He was one of only 12 MPs elected from his Party. PASOK came third in the elections with New Democracy electing 220 MPs and the Center Union - New Forces electing 60. He was re-elected in the 1977 Greek legislative election. This time PASOK came second with 93 MPs while New Democracy remained in government with 171 seats in Parliament. Continuing the rise of its popularity, PASOK came first in the 1981 Greek legislative election with 171 MPs while New Democracy
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Intergroup Dialogue


deliberative democracy." Civic engagement, experiential learning and student-centered learning are also products of this movement. For example, Paulo Freire, a core figure in popular education, adopted a theoretical approach to intergroup dialogue that emphasized the importance of people's own experiences, and need to build dialogue capacity to enable people to "analyze their situation and take action to transform themselves and their conditions.” Myles Horton, another popular education thinker, co-founded the Highlander Research and Education Center (1932) - one of the
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Evergreen Conference District


St. Mark's in the Wilderness church, later Mission of the Transfiguration. Her daughter, Dr. Josepha Williams, also purchased land around the Evergreen area and received the former Stewart Hotel through her mother's will. She donated land and buildings for the creation of the center. For recuperative reasons, Canon Charles Winfred Douglas, who was married to Josepha Williams, came to Evergreen for its summer retreats and music camps beginning in 1897. He led musical events, which increased the popularity of the center. He was priest of the
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San Jose Civic


T.S. Montgomery, who donated the property to the City of San Jose. The building was designed by Binder & Curtis in the Spanish California Mission style. The Montgomery Theater is attached to the east side of City National Civic. The west wing is a convention hall called Parkside Hall. It opened on September 22, 1977, as the San Jose Convention Center and served as the city's main convention center until a new facility of the same name opened across the street in 1989. Many of the most popular entertainers and public
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Park51


, and praying the way they want to pray. "Democracy is stronger than this," he added. Remarking on opposition to the center's location, he said: "To cave to popular sentiment would be to hand a victory to the terrorists. We should not stand for that." Responding to a question about the pain the project was causing some family members, he said: I don't see an enormous number of people. I was at a fundraiser ... maybe 50 ... people who had lost [family
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National Center for Victims of Crime


much should go to survivors who witnessed the murders and will need years of therapy, and who should make these decisions. There were also significant delays in the distribution of donations and questions over whether the organization that collected the donations should retain a portion of the donations. The National Center for Victims of Crime created the National Compassion Fund in order to establish a method and rubric for collecting and distributing donations to victims that could be set up quickly and distributed fairly following a mass shooting. The National Compassion Fund has collected charitable donations
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Podemos (Brazil)


future of the country. In the classical analysis of the political sciences, Podemos is defined as the center, with liberal proposals in the economy as well as distribution and income, when it comes to social development. This ideology, which is based on defending causes, results in three principles, namely transparency, popular participation and direct democracy, to jointly decide the future of Brazil. In this line, Podemos intends to give voice to people who do not feel represented by the current Brazilian political parties. Podemos believes that the
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Chiran Peace Museum for Kamikaze Pilots


1955 thanks to donations collected by Tome Torihama, who ran the Tomiya Inn frequented by the pilots, and who sought to redeem their memory after the war. Stone lanterns dedicated to the pilots line the approach to the museum. "The Firefly" (ホタル "Hotaru"): popular Japanese film of 2001, directed by Yasuo Furuhata and centered around the character of Tome Torihama, who ran the Tomiya Inn in Chiran and treated the young kamikaze pilots as if they were her own sons. "I go to die for
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Types of democracy


of democracy where the people govern directly. It requires wide participation of citizens in politics. Athenian democracy or "classical democracy" refers to a direct democracy developed in ancient times in the Greek city-state of Athens. A popular democracy is a type of direct democracy based on referendums and other devices of empowerment and concretization of popular will. An industrial democracy is an arrangement which involves workers making decisions, sharing responsibility and authority in the workplace (see also workplace). A representative democracy is an indirect democracy where sovereignty is
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Venelin Tsachevsky


Swiss Model - The Power of Democracy (2014)"; "Casimir Ehrnrooth. The Finn Who Made History (2014)"; "Switzerland. Democracy of the Future (2014)"; "“Bulgaria and Switzerland. Together in History” (2015)", etc. V. Tsachevsky has donated copies of his books to Sofia City Council, the University of National and World Economy, the Sofia Central Library, the City Library and Bulgaria-Switzerland Friendship Society “Louis Eyer” in the town of Lom,
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Popular democracy


popular democracy as a politician and president, and his presidency is considered as having made the transition from republic (Jeffersonian democracy) to popular democracy (Jacksonian democracy) in the United States Walt Whitman uses the word in "Democratic Vistas" as description of the vague notion of masse democracy with universal suffrage of a more or less direct and participatory type he defended. He admitted that the system had some dangers, but it "practically justifies itself beyond the proudest claims and wildest hopes of its enthusiasts". William Jennings Bryan may
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Carter Center


awarded Hamdan Award for Volunteers in Humanitarian Medical Services for 2013-14. The center holds an annual auction, which raised $1.6 million in 2013. Alan Dershowitz asserts that the Center's focus "is away from significant Arab abuses and on Israel's far less serious ones" and that this is influenced by the Center's receipt of donations from Arab sources. One of the initial contributors to the Center was Bank of Commerce and Credit International founder Agha Hasan Abedi, who donated $500,000. Abedi and BCCI also donated $
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Popular democracy


having a history of Popular Democracy in parallel with the Pahlevi Monarchy before the overthrowing of Mossadeq and reinstating of the Shah. Eugene McCarthy was seen as a popular democrat presidential campaigner in 1968. In 1969 Muammar al-Gaddafi overthrew the pro-western monarchy and created a system he claimed to be a popular democracy. Similarly to Gathafi, Hafez al-Assad, officially ended the one party state of Ba'ath Syria created by the 1963 coup d'état in 1970, declaring the creation of a multi-party popular democracy. In 1975
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CIA activities in the Philippines


(KABATID), Namfrel, and the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI) between the mid to late 1980s. The agenda behind all these donations was to popularize the idea of democracy in the region. Towards the end of the 1980s the CIA unleased an increasingly large amount of covert operations against leftist organizations in the Philippines. $10 million was given to the Armed Forced of the Philippines (AFP) for improved intelligence operations. The CIA increased the size of its personnel and sent more diplomats to the embassy in
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Abdalá Bucaram


Bucaram alone. The indigenous and social movements who helped him to raise to the power now were against him. The indigenous Pachakutik Movement, left-wing Democratic People's Movement (MPD), PSC and Popular Democracy were the main parties organizing the protests. This protest led to his dismissal from the Ecuadorian presidency. He was dismissed by the congress on grounds of alleged mental incapacity. Bucaram's assumed insanity was never officially diagnosed; it was more a political maneuver of the PSC and Popular Democracy who were in control of the
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Center for the Study of Democracy (Bulgaria)


This article is about the Center for the Study of Democracy in Bulgaria For the other institution by the same name, in the United States, see the Center for the Study of Democracy at St. Mary's College of Maryland, USA. Founded in late 1989, the Center for the Study of Democracy (CSD) is an interdisciplinary public policy institute dedicated to the values of democracy and market economics, based in Bulgaria. The CSD is a non-partisan, independent organization fostering the reform process in Bulgaria through impact on policy
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Crochet


texture required for Amigurumi crochet. It has been very common for people and groups to crochet clothing and other garments and then donate them to soldiers during war. People have also crocheted clothing and then donated it to hospitals, for sick patients and also for newborn babies. Sometimes groups will crochet for a specific charity purpose, such as crocheting for homeless shelters, nursing homes, etc. It is becoming increasingly popular to crochet hats (commonly referred to as "chemo caps") and donate them to cancer treatment centers, for
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Movement of Free Citizens (Greece)


The Movement of Free Citizens (), also known by its acronym KEP, was a short-lived, right-of-center political party in Greece. It was a personality-driven party, founded and led by Dimitris Avramopoulos. After resigning from the diplomatic corps in 1993, Avramopoulos began his political career within the conservative New Democracy. First a member of the Hellenic Parliament and then Mayor of Athens, Avramopoulos became one of the most popular Greek politicians. In 2001, the conservative New Democracy party was suffering from
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Online consultation


enables governments to draft more citizen-centered policy. As the Internet gains popularity with the public for voicing opinion, citizen participation in policy development through cyberspace is changing the face of democracy. The rise of the Internet has given way to buzzwords such as e-democracy, referring to citizen participation in politics, government issues and policy development through electronic technologies and the Internet, and eGovernment, pertaining to providing citizens with government information and services online. Online consultation is an extension of these concepts. Through online engagement, government is
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Center for Media and Democracy


material. In 2014, CMD merged with "The Progressive", a progressive monthly magazine, but separated after six months. CMD has investigated and reported on donor-advised funds, referring to such donations as a form of "dark money". According to the "Capital Times" of Madison, Wisconsin, CMD is a recipient of donor-advised funds via the Schwab Charitable Fund. The "New York Times" referred to CMD as a watchdog organization. "The Washington Post" described CMD as "a liberal
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Democracy Matters


. Democracy Matters' official position in terms of how to improve the US campaign finance system is through the creation of an opt-in public financing system for national and statewide campaigns. Public financing of election campaigns, similar to the successful state systems in Maine, Arizona and Connecticut also known as "Voter/Citizen-Owned Elections," or "Fair Elections" provide an alternative for a candidate to be publicly funded if she/he refuses to accept private donations from individuals or groups. This allows ordinary citizens, who
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Democratic socialism


Melanesian territories and creation of a Melanesian federal union. It is very popular with the New Caledonia independence movement. The following is a list of parties which are democratic socialist or partly democratic socialist currently having representation in the legislature of their country. One of the major scholars who have argued that socialism and democracy are compatible is the Austrian-born American economist Joseph Schumpeter, who was hostile to socialism. In his book "Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy" (first published in 1942), Schumpeter "emphasize[s] that political democracy
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Direct democracy


form of direct popular participation is the referendum on constitutional matters. For the system to respect the principle of political equality, either "everyone" needs to be involved or there needs to be a representative random sample of people chosen to take part in the discussion. In the definition used by scholars such as James Fishkin, deliberative democracy is a form of direct democracy which satisfies the requirement for deliberation and equality but does not make provision to involve everyone who wants to be included in the discussion. Participatory democracy, by Fishkin's
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Democracy International eV


Democracy International e.V. is an international non-governmental organisation (NGO) working on strengthening direct democracy and citizens' participation at local level, in the nation states and on the global level. Democracy International has been existing as a loose network of democracy activists since 2002. The organisation was formally established in June 2011 as a registered membership association (eingetragener Verein e.V.) according to German non-profit law. Democracy International is politically independent and funded by membership fees and individual donations. The headquarters are in Cologne
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Association for Democracy Assistance and Human Rights


skills that support democracy. Democracy and Culture Studies Center (CDK) is a non-profit organization that took up the initiatives of publishing and monitoring of democracy prior to 1989. Forum 2000 Foundation works to continue the legacy of Václav Havel who was the first democratic president of the Czech Republic, by promoting democracy, human rights, religious and ethnic tolerance and development. They serve as a platform for world leaders to discuss and debate these specific issues. Institute for European Policy (Europeum) is an independent think-tank focused
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Ady Barkan


Ady Barkan (born December 18, 1983) is an American lawyer and progressive activist. He works for the Center for Popular Democracy, where he has led the Fed Up and Be a Hero campaigns. Ady Barkan was born December 18, 1983, to immigrant parents (his mother from Romania by way of Tel Aviv, where she met his father) who became academics in the U.S. Barkan grew up in what he describes as a "secular Jewish household" and holds dual U.S. and Israeli citizenship. He attended high school
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1993 Rome municipal election


. However Fini's popularity continued also after the 1993 election: in fact since then, all the candidates substained by the center-right coalition were members of neo-fascist party National Alliance. Although the political crisis, Christian Democracy presented its candidate, Carmelo Caruso, who was substained also by the Italian Democratic Socialist Party. However there were also many other candidates, from very small parties, civic lists or associations; the most famous of this small party was the Love Party, a party in favor of sexuality in the
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Laureano Gómez


Although he was not the only Colombian politician who claimed that majoritarian democracy had destabilizing effects, he was one of the most strident critics of mass politics. Throughout his political career he decried Liberals who, as he saw it, inflamed the political passions of popular classes and thereby subverted the political order. He explicitly demonstrated his disdain for majoritarian democracy in 1942, when he criticized Congress for being too beholden to the popular will and vowed to give up his Senate seat at the end of the year. Over the next several years
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Popular democracy


form) is deemed recent and has only recently been fully developed. Some figures, like TV documentary producer, director and writer Colin Thomas, see the Levellers, resistance of groups to both the Stuart monarchy and Oliver Cromwell’s English Republic as early popular democracy advocacy groups. Thomas sees the line of this early popular democracy going through the dissenting church, to the American Revolutionaries and later British trade unionism. Thomas Paine's Common Sense is sometimes considered to defend a form of popular democracy. Andrew Jackson was considered a defender of
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Sperm donation


to prison. Sperm donation gained popularity in the 1980s and 1990s. In many western countries, sperm donation is now a largely accepted procedure. In the US and elsewhere, there are a large number of sperm banks. A sperm bank in the US pioneered the use of on-line search catalogues for donor sperm, and these facilities are now widely available on the websites of sperm banks and fertility clinics. Recent years have also seen sperm donation become relatively less popular among heterosexual couples, who now have access to more sophisticated
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Arturo Fontaine Talavera


transformed into a meeting place for intellectuals and the political class from all sectors. Many members of the opposition found a place there where they could put forward their points of view via articles in "Estudios Publicos" and in numerous and popular seminars which were organized to discuss public affairs. The financing of the CEP came from foundations such as the Ford Foundation, the Tinker Foundation, the National Endowment for Democracy and donations from private businesses. Fontaine found in the CEP a method of channeling public anxieties and a way to influence the
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Paul Dussaussoy


" Dussaussoy was certain that voting was a "necessary civic experience for all members of a democracy". He was in favour of electing senators by universal suffrage and proportional representation for deputies. He was most active in discussions on budget issues, but was involved in debates on many other topics. In 1895 he proposed a bill through which unions could own buildings and receive donations. In 1897 his proposed change to the recruitment laws was accepted. Dussaussoy joined the Popular Liberal Action (Action libérale populaire), a mostly Catholic party
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Center for Media and Democracy


of view." From 2006 to 2009, SourceWatch hosted Congresspedia, a wiki that was funded by the Sunlight Foundation and intended to document the activities of the United States Congress. CMD states that it accepts donations from "individuals and philanthropic foundations through gifts and grants", but "no funding from for-profit corporations or grants from government agencies." It maintains a partial list of supporters on its website. In a column for Fox News, Dan Gainor wrote that CMD received $200,000 from the Open Society Institute (
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KARTA Center


The KARTA Center () or The KARTA Center Foundation () is a Polish non-governmental public benefit organization, whose aim is documenting and popularizing the recent history of Poland and history of Eastern Europe and strengthening tolerance and democracy. The KARTA community founded in 1982 in Warsaw during the time of martial law in Poland as an illegal underground paper, named Karta, focusing on political commentaries (19 issues), which was transformed after a few months into an independent almanac presenting human attitudes towards dictatorship (seven issues). In
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Participatory democracy


is primarily concerned with ensuring that citizens are afforded an opportunity to participate or otherwise be involved in decision making on matters that affect their lives. Participatory democracy is not a novel concept and has existed under various political designs since the Athenian democracy. The theory of participatory democracy was developed by Jean-Jacques Rousseau and later promoted by J.S. Mill and G. D. H. Cole, who argued that political participation is indispensable for the realization of a just society. Nevertheless, the sudden invigoration and popularity on this topic in the academic literature only
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DeWereldMorgen


oneself as a "movement for media and democracy", they receive subsidies; without which they would have serious financial troubles. Other than these subsidies, it is mostly dependent on financial partners, which can create a bias towards no negative articles about those partners. Micropayments, book sales, donations and lectures generate a smaller part of its revenue. In 2010, was donated to DeWereldMorgen, possibly by people who cancel their paid subscription to another newspaper. DeWereldMorgen is sponsored by trade unions. 60% of the total revenue for
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Athenian democracy


background. The classical example that inspired the American and French revolutionaries, as well as the English radicals, was Rome rather than Greece. Thus, the Founding Fathers who met in Philadelphia in 1787, did not set up a Council of the Areopagos, but a Senate, that, eventually, met on the Capitol. Following Rousseau (1712–1778), "democracy came to be associated with popular sovereignty instead of popular participation in the exercise of power." Several German philosophers and poets took delight in the fullness of life in
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Center for the Study of Democracy (St. Mary's College of Maryland)


The Center for the Study of Democracy is a research and education institute at St. Mary's College of Maryland that focuses on the study of the history of emerging democracy in St. Mary's City, Maryland, the site of Maryland'a first colonial capital and the location of many firsts in the development of democratic rights in North America; this work is done in conjunction with studies of modern democracies. The mission of the Center for the Study of Democracy is to draw historical lessons and also inspiration from history, in order to increase understanding
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Center for Democracy and Technology


basic level of government access - spurred the creation of CDT in 1994. Recognizing a threat to privacy and innovation in CALEA's design mandates, CDT fought the passage of the CALEA and later worked to ensure that its implementation would not extend to the Internet. In the end, CALEA did not contain wiretapping design mandates for the Internet and required transparency surrounding design standards. CDT's launch was assisted by seed donations from AT&T Corporation, Bell Atlantic, Nynex, Apple, and Microsoft. Today, CDT has expanded its scope to
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Media independence


Endowment for Democracy’s Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) highlighted the swings in funding by tracking United States Agency for International Development (USAID) funding to different regions over the past three years. Private foundations based in the Global North are increasingly providing grants to media organizations in the Global South. Such funds are often directed to cover specific topics of interest, such as health or education, and these donations can either support or weaken editorial independence. In the newsroom, women sometimes face hostility. This can be partly explained
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Center for Media and Democracy


OSI), a grantmaking network founded by George Soros, aimed to shape public policy to promote democratic governance, human rights, and economic, legal, and social reform. CMD stated that it received a grant from OSI "to continue work on national security issues". Fox News reported that in 2011 CMD received $864,740 in donations. $520,000, or 60% of 2011's total revenue, was received from the Schwab Charitable Fund, a donor advised fund which preserves the anonymity of donors by not disclosing individual donor
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Center for Media and Democracy


names. According to the conservative news website Watchdog.org, the Tides Foundation, a foundation known to donate primarily to liberal organizations, reported giving CMD $160,000 in 2011, but that money did not appear on CMD's tax return. When asked why CMD heavily criticizes conservative organizations for not revealing their donors while refusing to name all of CMD's funders, CMD's president Lisa Graves said, “The question of conservative funders versus liberal funders, I think, is a matter of false equivalency. Quite frankly a number of these
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Paul Singer (businessman)


is a "longtime supporter of hawkish pro-Israel causes" and a major funder for the conservative think tank Foundation for Defense of Democracies. In November 2018, after the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting, the Paul E. Singer Family Foundation announced it would donate $1 million to upgrade security at Jewish institutions in New York. The funds will be gifted to the United Jewish Appeal – Federation of New York, which will then distribute the money as needed to individual synagogues, day schools, and community centers to cover safety reviews and enhanced
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Nina Rosenwald


The Nation says that Rosenwald has donated over $2.8 million to the following organizations since 2000: the Gatestone Institute, the Center for Security Policy, Project ijtihad, the American Islamic Forum for Democracy, the Middle East Forum, the Clarion Fund, "Commentary" magazine and the Hudson Institute. The Middle East Forum received $2.3 million from Rosenwald over a ten-year period ending in 2012. Rosenwald has also given money to David Horowitz and Brigitte Gabriel. Rosenwald's support of these entities led "The Nation" magazine
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Cycling in Portland, Oregon


led by local activists Tom O'Keefe and Joe Keating. O'Keefe proposed painting donated bikes – repaired by at-risk-youth served by the Community Cycling Center – bright yellow, and deploying them for free use around Portland. O'Keefe cited the Provo movement's White Bicycle Plan in Amsterdam as inspiration after watching the documentary "Sex Drugs & Democracy". "Gratis Pedalis Feralvus" was a tongue-in-cheek slogan for the quirky eco-transportation project. About a dozen yellow bikes, painted for free by a local auto
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Reporters Without Borders


Society Institute of George Soros, the Sigrid Rausing Trust, Benetton, and the Center for a Free Cuba. In addition, various private groups and organizations have supported RWB through in-kind donations of their services. The photography books are one example, as is the work of Saatchi & Saatchi which created various communication campaigns free (for instance, concerning censorship in Algeria). Public funding has come from organisations such as the Swedish International Development Agency, European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights of the European Commission, the French
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Corporate donations


). Such organizations often group donations under specific corporations, but such donations refer to contributions from individuals and PACs associated with the corporation, not "corporate donations". Corporate donations to PACs and Super PACs are a First Amendment issue and subject to intense political debate in the US. Proponents of tighter regulations of political donations by corporations argue that corporate donations corrupt democracy. Other research suggests that post-election lobbying and access to politicians, rather than campaign contributions, shapes and reinforces policy decision by politicians In Germany, both individuals
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2008 Sichuan earthquake


(approximately US$1.5 billion) had been donated by the Chinese public. Houston Rockets center Yao Ming, one of the country's most popular sports icons, gave $214,000 and $71,000 to the Red Cross Society of China. The association has also collected a total of $26 million in donations. Other multinational firms located in China have also announced large amounts of donations. The Red Cross Society of China flew 557 tents and 2,500 quilts valued at 788,000 yuan (US$113,000) to Wenchuan County. The Amity Foundation already
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Seth Mandel


, "The Jewish Journal", "The Speaker", and "Jewish Life of Hudson County". By the time these newspapers folded in July 2010, he was managing editor of all four. In 2011, he moved to Washington, D.C., and became a National Security Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a national security and foreign policy think tank, and a journalism fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, formerly known as the Center for the Study of Popular Culture. A year later, he
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Subramaniam Sathasivam


the agenda of the National Blood Center. Honestly, in Malaysia, blood donation is 100% voluntarily without expecting any reward. He also appreciate certain parties such as the National Armed Forces who became a strong reserve and also women who are now actively involved in blood donation activities. Based on National Blood Center data, in 2016, a total of 693608 blood bags were received by transfusion medical services, of which 68.1% were blood donated and the rest (31.9%) were new blood donors. The Honorable also urges those
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Harriet Island Pavilion


of diverse ethnic, racial, and religious backgrounds. The park at Harriet Island was built by Dr. Justus Ohage, St. Paul's health officer, who donated the land to the city in 1900. His idea for the park was to build a place for healthy living in the center of the city. The park originally had a public bathhouse and beach, along with amenities like playgrounds, picnic grounds, handball and tennis courts, and a bandstand. The park was initially very popular, but pollution from the Mississippi River forced
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Cane, La Paz


Cane is a municipality in the Honduran department of La Paz. The population of Cane is not exact, but is estimated to be around 4,000. The current mayor is Jose Tejeda, who is very popular among the community, as he has donated millions of US dollars to the creation of a lush central park stocked with trash cans, benches, and a taco bar. Tejeda is also in the process of paving the roads of Cane, which were originally all dirt. Cane is home to one early learning center, one
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Aglow International


near Haifa, the Magen David Adom blood donation center in Jerusalem, the Ethiopian Absorption Center in Mevaseret Zion and the Ma'aynei Hayeshua Medical Center in Bnei Brak. More than $20,000 was also donated to Aglow members who were victims of Hurricane Katrina. CEO and President, Jane Hansen, made a personal visit to the affected areas to distribute these monies. Over $40,000 and humanitarian supplies were also donated for the relief of victims of the tsunami that hit Asia in December 2004. Aglow also partners with charitable organizations in the cities
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Center for Justice & Democracy


Center for Justice & Democracy (CJ&D) is a non-profit, non-partisan consumer rights organization exclusively dedicated to educating the public about the importance of the U.S. civil justice system and fighting tort reform. The Center for Justice & Democracy was founded in 1998 by former Ralph Nader staff attorney Joanne Doroshow, with the help of other consumer advocates, including Mr. Nader. In November 2011, New York Law School and the Center for Justice and Democracy formed an affiliation to begin during the fall 2011 semester; during this affiliation
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Popular democracy


democracy is fairer than elitist parliaments; decisions by general referendums are fairer than decisions by limited groups like parliaments and governments), and as platforms of certain groups claiming to be popular democratic are very similar to those of various democratic and undemocratic populist movements, there is discussion on the relation between both political philosophies. This ideal is currently supported by Glenn Smith (who was connected to the Rockridge Institute, a now defunct organization) and many other Progressive, Liberal and Populist Democrats. Taking advantage of the vagueness of the concept many
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Democrat Social Movement


), and Cochabamba council member Ninoska Lazarte. The launch was hosted by Savina Cuéllar, the former prefect of Chuquisaca Department, who as of April 2013, was under house arrest facing charges for the May 24, 2008, violence in Sucre. After a failed petition to legally merge the registration of Costas' Truth and Social Democracy (VERDES) party, Renewing Freedom and Democracy (Libertad y Democracia Renovadora; Líder), and Popular Consensus in June, the Supreme Electoral Tribunal authorized Popular Consensus to rename itself the Social Democratic
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Democracy Movement


. Jimmy used to describe it as sitting at the top of the mountain watching a train crash - that was like us heading for the European superstate. The DM is funded by donations from grassroots supporters, although the Goldsmith family and Paul Sykes made large campaign donations during its early years. The Democracy Movement campaigns on a number of eurosceptic issues such as opposing Britain entering Economic and Monetary Union or the Eurozone and has also campaigned against the EU Constitution and the Lisbon Treaty. Its opposition to the euro is on the grounds that
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Interwar France


bring together their enemies on the left and center into the Popular Front. The Croix de Feu was originally an elite veterans' organization that François de La Rocque took over in 1929 and made a political movement. The Croix-de-Feu was dissolved in June 1936, by the Popular Front government, and de La Rocque quickly formed the new Parti Social Français or PSF. Both organizations were authoritarian and conservative, hostile to democracy and devoted to the defense of property, the family, and the nation against the threat of
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National Movement for Democracy and Development


The National Movement for Democracy and Development (, MNDD) was a left-wing political party in Benin. The MNDD was established in 1990 by Bertin Borna, who was popular in the north of the country. It contested the 1991 elections as part of three-party alliance alongside the Movement for Solidarity, Union and Progress (MSUP) and the Union for Democracy and National Reconstruction (UDRN). The three parties received 8% of the vote and won six of the 64 seats in the National Assembly. The alliance
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Popular democracy


Popular democracy is a notion of direct democracy based on referendums and other devices of empowerment and concretization of popular will. The concept evolved out of the political philosophy of Populism, as a fully democratic version of this popular empowerment ideology, but since it has become independent of it, and some even discuss if they are antagonistic or unrelated now (see Values). Though the expression has been used since the 19th century and may be applied to English Civil War politics, at least the notion (or the notion in its current
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Issue One


Roemer (D) and former Tennessee Representative Zach Wamp (R). The ReFormers Caucus has proposed increasing civic participation, passing laws that define and regulate the role of money in federal elections and "boosting small donations to campaigns, finding ways to restrict political contributions from lobbyists and unmasking secret contributions made to tax-exempt groups that are active in politics." In 2015, Issue One joined with the Campaign Legal Center to publish Blueprints for Democracy, a report providing an overview of how campaign finance reforms have been implemented across
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Center for Global Development


topics listed on their website include capital flows/financial crises, debt relief, environmental issues, economic growth, governance/democracy, international financial institutions, finance, food and agriculture, inequality, population, poverty, private investment, security and development, and data sets and resources. CGD receives funding from foundations, governments, individuals, and corporations. The organization publishes information on its website for all grants and donations received that are above $100,000. CGD received the highest rating (five stars) from Transparify for its open
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Media Matters for America


Fox News hosts may incite violence" had moved him to donate to MMfA. During a 2014 CNN interview, David Brock stated that Soros' contributions were "less than 10 percent" of Media Matters' budget. According to "Politico": "Media Matters, however has received funding from or formed partnerships with several groups that Soros funds or has funded. These include the Tides Foundation, Democracy Alliance, Moveon.org and the Center for American Progress.” John Podesta, former chief of staff to President Bill Clinton, provided office
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W Spann


which Romney was once Chief Executive Officer, among other companies. Alex Stanton, a spokesman for Bain Capital, denied any affiliation between the two companies. Romney's campaign did not comment on the donation. Tim Larimer, a spokesperson for Ropes & Gray, the law firm which employs Casey and represents Bain Capital, said the firm couldn't discuss the matter. After NBC discovered the phantom company in August 2011, Democracy 21 and Campaign Legal Center, two groups that promote greater transparency in election laws, asked the U.S. Justice
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Citizens Television


exercise their legal right to freedom of speech and freedom of expression through CTV. The station is financially supported by viewer donations. In 2013, after a decade in suburban Hamden, CTV moved back to the center city where its original offices had been located; it is now located at 843 State St. Citizens Television is broadcast on three specialty Public, educational, and government access cable TV channels, each used for a specific purpose. They include: CTV has been a rebroadcaster of shows produced by other stations,including Democracy Now
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George Soros


was not a large donor to U.S. political causes until the 2004 presidential election, but according to the Center for Responsive Politics, during the 2003–2004 election cycle, Soros donated $23,581,000 to various 527 Groups (tax-exempt groups under the United States tax code, 26 U.S.C. § 527). The groups aimed to defeat President George W. Bush. After Bush's reelection, Soros and other donors backed a new political fundraising group called Democracy Alliance, which supports progressive causes and the formation of a stronger progressive infrastructure in America.
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Israel Democracy Institute


. The Israel Democracy Institute contains the following centers: Engages with the core issues of Israeli democracy, and with the erosion in public commitment to substantive democracy and its values. The Center focuses on bolstering the commitment of public institutions and decision makers to the protection of human rights, to the principles of freedom and equality, and to the rule of law. The research and implementation work carried out at the Center concentrates on failures in implementing the principle of the separation of powers, and on maintaining the independence of the state's
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Donat, Switzerland


70 to 79, there are 10 people or 7.5% who are 80 to 89, and there are 1 people or 0.8% who are 90 to 99. In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 52.6% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SPS (25%), the FDP (13.7%) and the CVP (7.3%). In Donat about 78.1% of the population (between age 25-64) have completed either non-mandatory
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