Tagged with Elections

The author is invited to join a progressive coalition to monitor the 2004 election, and finds himself in the middle of the third stolen election in four years. (more)

The Geula party transmits a radically different message to the Israeli people on the eve of the Israeli elections that take place Tuesday, February 10. Is it politics, art, or a spiritual manifesto? [video] (more)

To bring about change you need to practice dreampolitik. What Barack Obama demonstrated during his campaign, and needs to remind himself of regularly, is that politics can be the art of the impossible. (more)

When I discovered yesterday morning that Obama had won, I wept. And wept. Is it an exaggeration to say the global village's heart is opening up?
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Last night I woke up, startled by a B-grade racist dream. It began with me walking down a street, and then I'm making a racist remark about Senator Obama. The dream showed me confronting my shadow. Everyone is having this type of experience right now. It's happening across the culture. (more)

While my long-term vision is a world of empowered, decentralized communities in charge of their own destinies, there's a short term problem we desperately need to address: completely transforming our technology, our energy infrastructure, our economy, our food, manufacturing and transportation systems to a zero carbon basis, and doing it in a way that furthers social justice. I don't think Obama will be our savior. But if he's elected, the wind will shift. (more)

The conflict between McCain and Obama is in essence a conflict between two different conceptions of personality and its relationship with political power, ideological manifestations having a common root: the rise of the Western ego. (more)

A video of the opening "invocation" I did for the Personal Democracy Forum last week, and a preview of some of the concepts coming in my next book, Corporatized. (more)

Nothing against Barak Obama, but we'd be mistaken to consider his politics a complete break from the past, a renaissance in participatory government, or the realization of an Internet-enabled "open source" democracy. (more)