November 29, 2004
A World Wishing to Cast a Vote
From the Washington Post:
A World Wishing To Cast a Vote
By Frances Stead Sellers
Sunday November 21, 2004; Page B01
Two and a half weeks ago, as news of President Bush's reelection whizzed around the globe, my brother in England dashed off an e-mail to me. "The world is going to be a warmer place," he quipped, "but much more uncomfortable." Never mind whether Rob is right in thinking that Bush's policies will increase global warming and warfare; what his shorthand reflected was a widely held view that the outcome of the American election would affect not just Americans but the rest of the world -- and that he therefore had a stake in it.
It is a short step from that belief to the conviction that, as long as the United States remains the world's sole superpower, Americans' business is anybody's business. Not surprisingly, that concept has flourished, both before and after the election, in the borderless universe of the Internet, where there has never been much respect for the conventions of state sovereignty -- and where more than one online "election" made Sen. John Kerry the occupant of the Oval Office. (continued)
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November 18, 2004
Post-election planning
Do you have ideas for new web based projects?
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November 15, 2004
Though dissatisfied with Bush's policies, Africans must come to terms with the realities of US power
CAPE TOWN: African reaction to the re-election of George W. Bush has been ambivalent, swinging between resignation and fear. The common thread is deep concern and anger about a White House that is inclined to war and unilateralism. In so far as this has serious implications for the world, it also impacts Africa.
Kenya's Vice President Moody Awori strongly expresses this sentiment. "I think we are going to see more dictatorship on an international scale," he said. "We are going to see more isolation, where Americans will not bother about the UN. To me that is a very sad affair."
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Apologies Accepted
Today on BBC News
Election apology starts net feud.
And, yet another site:
www.apologiesaccepted.com
"We, wanderers of the world outside the US, have been touched by the initiative of www.sorryeverybody.com, and the huge amount of photos they received. The initiators of this website would like to show back to the American people that they appreciated that message."
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November 12, 2004
Not Sorry Not Everybody
Yes, more Sorry sites from more or less everybody.
"Me being someone who doesn't like to miss out on a new trend, I decided to create notsorrynoteverybody.com, the site that responds negatively to the negative response."
On the negative response: "The key differences being twofold: one, the sentiment is the polar opposite in that they all ARE NOT SORRY and two being that most of the pictures look like they came from the local county jail."
Here's another NOT Sorry site called: www.werenotsorry.com
Don't visit this one if your belief in the future and beauty of global dialogue is shaky: www.sorryeverybodymyass.com
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Not Sorry Everybody
It was inevitable: in response to the overnight hit www.sorryeverybody.com, an avid Bush supporter has created www.NOTsorryeverybody.com. The gallery just opened.
Here's the intro: "Some of us — hopefully most of us — are trying to understand why so many on the liberal left believe that we - as a nation - have anything to apologize for in this election or why we should care what - if any effect - the results will have on you, the citizens of the rest of the world."
NOT Sorry Everybody
I'd better send him a link to "The World Speaks"...
And walking the same talk, there is also www.usaloveitorleaveit.com
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November 11, 2004
Protests in Stockholm Nov 12th
BLIXTAKTION
Nätverket mot krig anordnar protest mot attackerna i Falluja.
FREDAG 12 november kl. 18.00 MYNTTORGET
www.motkrig.org
World Tribunal on Iraq in Stockholm November 13-14th
www.worldtribunal.org
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Berlin Demonstration Nov 20th
Here is a note about an upcoming demonstration in Berlin:
MACH MIT UND ERHEBE DEINE STIMME!
*You've got a Voice*
Demonstration gegen George W. Bush
am 20.November 2004, 13:00 Uhr, Brandenburger Tor
for more info: www.vote44.net
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November 08, 2004
Americans on the run?
So how many Americans will actually make good of their promises to leave the USA if George Bush is elected?
BBC NEWS | Exiles from Main Street
Canada: Immigration web site flooded with anti-Bush visitors
In case you're considering emmigration here's a detailed guide from Harpers Magazine on how to do it: Electing to Leave
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Norway shuts down anti-Bush site
OSLO, Norway, Nov. 4 (UPI) -- Norwegian police have shut down a satirical web site that called for the assassination of U.S. President George Bush, newspaper Aftenposten reported Thursday: Norway shuts down anti-Bush site
The name of the website was http://killhim.nu/ (kill him now). Rap group Gatas Parlament say no one was actually threatening the president's life, and that the American authorities have "no sense of humour".
Norwegian newspaper, Dagsavisen says (in Norwegian): "That there is little room for freedom of expression in the USA is something American artists have felt in the last years. But that freedom of expression in Norway is being put under pressure by the USA, is testimony of a new form of aggressive arrogance."
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November 07, 2004
Marry an American
"Now that George W. Bush has been officially elected, single, sexy, American liberals - already a threatened species - will be desperate to escape. These lonely, afraid (did we mention really hot?) progressives will need a safe haven. You can help. Open your heart, and your home. Marry an American."
MarryAnAmerican - No good American will be left behind!
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Backfire in Ohio
Was it the Guardian's fault that Clark County voted for Bush in the end? The fact that it's unlikely, doesn't stop anyone from speculating.
USATODAY.com - Brits' campaign backfires in Ohio
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EU Leaders Seek to "Move On" After US Election
BRUSSELS, Belgium - President Jacques Chirac of France on Friday called for a strong Europe to balance American might even as he and other assembled leaders appeared to back away from proposed changes to resuscitate Europe's economy.
''It is evident that Europe, now more than ever, must strengthen its unity and dynamism when faced with this great world power,'' Chirac said at a European Union summit meeting here. ''More than ever we must reinforce Europe politically and economically.'' The proposed European Constitution would bolster the Union, he said.
The summit meeting was the first test of Europe's willingness to forget differences and embrace the United States after the re-election of President Bush.
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November 06, 2004
Election over and Bush website no longer blocked...
After victory was proclaimed, the Bush campaign suddenly opened up their website to the world again...
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International monitors unimpressed by US election
"The observers said they had less access to polls than in Kazakhstan, that the electronic voting had fewer fail-safes than in Venezuela, that the ballots were not so simple as in the Republic of Georgia and that no other country had such a complex national election system."
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November 05, 2004
The Last Letters
Can America make allies of Pakistan’s people rather than its military? In the eighteenth - and last - of openDemocracy's Letters to Americans series, Pakistani human rights campaigner Asma Jahangir writes to Steve Coll, Pulitzer-prizewinning author of ‘Ghost Wars: the secret history of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden’ and managing editor of the Washington Post.
America, Pakistan, and the limits of militarism - openDemocracy
Also on openDemocracy, thoughtful writers around the world respond briefly to the election results in America.
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World press on Bush victory
From the Guardian: Read what the newspapers in about a dozen countries had to say about four more years of President Bush: "Bush Faces Awesome Challenge" (you may need to register, free)
Here's more on what the US papers say.
Also: Three Americans explain to Europe why they voted for Bush, and why no one should be surprised: Keep faith with us
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Purple America
We've seen the election maps with red and blue states, but if you break it down into counties there's actually a whole lot of purple.
Election 2004 Results: Purple America
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Sorry Everybody -- How Can We Make It Up To You?
Sorry Everybody -- How Can We Make It Up To You?
God knows we tried. Pictorial notes to the world from half of America.
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November 04, 2004
Coastopia
At the moment quite a few Americans are thinking about whether to emigrate or not... There is even talk about secession:
"Ladies and gentlemen, you needn't fret anymore. We have decided that we can't live in the United States anymore, because so many of you in the "heartland" are so full of shit. We were all going to move to various other countries, but then we thought - why should WE move?
We are tired of rednecks in Oklahoma picking the leader who will determine if it is safe for us to cross the Brooklyn Bridge. We are sick of homophobic knuckle-draggers in Wyoming contributing to the national debate on our gay marriages. So we have done the only thing we could.
We seceded.
May I present to you: AMERICAN COASTOPIA."
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November 03, 2004
Post-election message to USA from Vanessa in Mexico
"Well done U.S.A!!! You wanted to free yourselves from terrorism?? Well it looks like you will have it for 4 more years!Specially by having the number one terrorist in the world...Bush! We actually thought you were going to be a little more conscious about this matter, but it looks like you dont care about having a president who has killed 100.000 Iraquies, let me remind you that they did not attack your country! Bush only wants what is good for himself and that's oil and to have more power over the world. And don't tell us to mind our own business, this concern us, your country has always looked for a reason to invade countries in order to have more power in the world."
What is your opinion? Earth to America is still open... Americans also welcome!
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Reactions: World leaders & the people of the world
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) -- George W. Bush's allies in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan cautiously welcomed signs Wednesday that he would be re-elected in America's tight presidential race. But on the streets outside the United States, many people were disappointed.
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November 02, 2004
Signing up for World Parties November 3
Hopeful people in Santa Cruz, San Francisco, Seattle, Skopje, Stockholm and several other cites have already joined www.world-party.org to celebrate the end of Bush.
For more information: www.world-party.org
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Moving On
Does United States democracy need the world’s aid? In the seventeenth of openDemocracy's Letters to Americans series, Swedish activist with The World Speaks, Kajsa Klein, writes to the African American writer and civic leader, Julianne Malveaux.
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In Iraq, Pondering Vote in U.S
""I'm very grateful to Bush and his administration and what they've done for Iraq," said Kamel Chadirji, a ministry official in Baghdad. "All my life I will be grateful to him. But I will vote for Kerry," inadvertently speaking as if he really could go to the polls on Tuesday."
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America’s middle east lesson
"The United States’s post-9/11 foreign policy will have a long-term, positive effect on middle-east politics, Lebanese banker Karim Souaid tells openDemocracy editor Anthony Barnett"
America’s middle east lesson: Karim Souaid interviewed Karim Souaid - openDemocracy
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From Richard in Australia: Fix your Election System!
Dear America,
Your efforts to bring "democracy" to a somewhat reluctant world may be somewhat better received if you were to have a real democracy at home. Your media has been full of stories about possible problems with the ballot; not to mention the real problems last time. Can't you get your act together sufficiently to have a non-controversial, fair ballot? A federal electoral roll and federally conducted elections run by civil servants not party hacks would be a good starting point. It works like magic in our part of the world. Try it. You'll like it and it will then let you concentrate on policy formation and considered debate instead of wasteful litigation. And give credibility to the outcome.
Please turn your minds to this issue as soon as the dust has settled on the current election.
Richard Ure
Australia
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International Observers stopped
OSCE observers were stopped by Republicans in Flordia yesterday. To read more about this incident (in Swedish), click here.
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November 01, 2004
Talk to US video of the week
Oybek Fazilov of Uzbekistan tells U.S. voters to hold onto what's most important. Click on the image below to watch the video.
Transcript: "You have the greatest thing... it's freedom.... Try not to lose it."
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Middle East awaits U.S. election result with low expectations
CAIRO: The Arab world, rife with anti-U.S. sentiment, has low expectations of the U.S. presidential election even though it could shape the future of Iraq and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
"Two sides of the same coin" is a common reaction, reflecting widespread disillusionment in the region, when comparing U.S. President George W. Bush with his Democratic rival John Kerry.
But the latter often comes out on top in local straw polls.
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The World Votes For John Kerry
THE HAGUE, 11/1/’04 – If the rest of the world could vote in the U.S. Presidential election, John Kerry would win in a landslide. That is the conclusion of an international election conducted by The World Votes (www.theworldvotes.org), an initiative that gives people all around the world a voice in the forthcoming U.S. Presidential Election.
According to the international election, John Kerry receives 81.6% of the vote. George Bush is favoured by a 6.2% minority. Independent candidate Ralph Nader gets 5.3%. The other candidates together receive less than 6%. In total, nearly 10,000 citizens from countries all over the world took part in this election.
The poll subsequently asked the participants about the expected outcome of the 2004 Presidential election. More than half (57.1%) of the respondents think that John Kerry will win the election. For this question, 42.3% thinks that Bush serve a second term in the White House.
Most participants (43.5%) think that U.S. voters will consider foreign policy as a major issue when casting their vote on November 2. One third of the voters however say that Americans will not consider foreign policy a key theme upon casting their vote.
The U.S. election is widely considered by the participants (91.4%) to be an international event. However, almost half of the respondents (46.9%) indicated that the rest of the world should not have a say in the election. Only a mere 6.8% says that the U.S. election is purely a domestic issue.
The survey results are mailed to all respondents - including more than 4,000 American citizens- as well as to international and U.S. media. But the World Votes has no intent to influence the democratic process in the U.S. “We just want to urge U.S. voters to keep the rest of the world in mind when casting their vote”, says Wiebe de Jager, one of the initiators.
The World Votes has been discussed all over the world on Internet and in the media. In the past few weeks, the International Herald Tribune, BBC News and the L.A. Times paid attention to the initiative.
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Latest News for Americans Abroad
The USAbroad.org website currently has news for US Citizens abroad on last minute voting, the blocking of the Bush website, and stories on how great number of expatriates are returning to volunteer in battleground states in the final days of the election.
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Kerry wins Globalvote 2004
The results of the different mock elections around the world are now being published. First out is Globalvote2004. The site recorded over 113,552 votes from 191 countries. And the winner is... John Kerry (Democrat), with 77.1% of votes. President George W Bush got 9%.
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Europevotes is up again
Europevotes.com is up an running again after a paralyzing hacker attack last week. Go vote!
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In the News November 1st
Wiebe de Jager of www.theworldvotes.org will be interviewed on Irish radio NewsTalk at 1.40 PM GMT.
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Dear America by Christopher Rootes (U.K.)
Dear America,
What happens as a result of these elections will affect the futures of all humankind. American voters have an awesome responsibility. Immediately after 9/11, we felt a tremendous sense of solidarity with the people of the US, but the subsequent actions of the Bush administration have dismayed us. We desperately needs a more just, peaceful and environmentally sustainable world order, and the key lies in the choices of American voters. Please do not disappoint us.
Discuss this letter on Voices '04
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