December 14, 2004
Another British Post- & Pre-Election Initiative...
"Four more years with George W Bush. What will he do? What can we do? Millions marched against the war. Millions supported it. Let's learn from experience. A better way is possible. From Britain and the world we say - NO MORE IRAQS."
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December 05, 2004
Thank You Tony Blair
ThankYouTony.com: An American site to thank UK Prime Minister Tony Blair for his support of the American actions in Iraq.
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November 15, 2004
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
Posted by Kajsa at 09:11 PM | Email to a friend
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
Posted by Kajsa at 10:18 AM | Email to a friend
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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November 05, 2004
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.
Posted by worldspeaks at 05:27 PM | Email to a friend
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 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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November 01, 2004
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!
Posted by Solana at 12:38 PM | Email to a friend
October 29, 2004
Election Parties!
In the US, campaigning is getting more and more desperate. A group of Harvard and Columbia graduates have started www.votergasm.org where people amongst other things can sign up to steamy election night parties. No votergasms are (to the best of our knowledge) scheduled in the rest of the world. However, there is now a web site called www.world-party.org that encourages people to self-organize parties on November 3 at 6 pm "to celebrate the end of Bush (or declaring determined resistance if he steals it again)."
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October 27, 2004
Europevotes is hacked!
This morning the website www.europevotes.com, which allows Europeans to vote in a mock US-election, was hacked by a group that call itself cleantheweb.com. A red pop-up appears across the homepage that reads "this site is hacked We know who is the right President for us! So shut the fuck up old Europe". The hackers say the next targets on their list are:
www.us-election.org
www.theworldvotes.org
www.globalvote2004.org
And that they are dedicated to cleaning the Web of, "sites trying to affront the sovereignty of the United States". Some people have no patience for symbolism. Back up your files everyone.
Posted by worldspeaks at 01:42 PM | Email to a friend
October 26, 2004
Asia Defeat Bush Network
To visit the Network's web site and write a peace letter, click on this link: Asia Defeat Bush Network
Below is a quote from another South- Korean based web site:
"What I would like to suggest is a global campaign against Bush, which includes the formation of a united global campaign to defeat Bush in the 2004 election and topple him from the presidency, the formation of cross-border solidarity of American and non-American social movements to defeat Bush in the next election, and the intervention of the global civil society in America to stop the American political society from threatening global peace and human security. This campaign also means a 'progressive intervention' in a nationally bounded election process from outside, based on trans-border solidarity."
Posted by Kajsa at 10:32 AM | Email to a friend
Swedish Boys for Bush
Two young Swedes are running a pro-Bush campaign.
"Atlantic Conservative Alliance wants to see the American people re-elect George W Bush; we want to change European US policies and give European youth a truer picture of the US government. We want the conservatives of Europe to stretch out their hands over the ocean and create a Conservative Atlantic Alliance."
And in today's Aftonbladet there is an op-ed by another young man who campaigns for Bush, Daniel Somos: Därför hjälper jag Bush att vinna .
Posted by Kajsa at 10:16 AM | Email to a friend
October 23, 2004
Republican Nightmare: Non-Citizens Vote for U.S. President
Artist Peter Walsh (http://www.peterwalshprojects.us) is setting up presidential voting stations in New York City and London for the exclusive use of unregistered and ineligible voters: non-U.S. citizens. The next Plebiscite 2004 polling station will appear in New York on Monday, Oct. 25th.
Details can be found at the web site of Plebiscite 2004.
The results will be hand-tabulated in a public performance on November 2, 2004 at Beaconsfield, an arts center located in Vauxhall, London. Those results will be publicly posted electronically on the Plebiscite 2004 website.
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October 13, 2004
Guardian Unlimited starts letter-writing campaign
Registered voters of Clark County, Ohio will soon receive letters and postcards from people in Britain and all over the world urging them not to vote for Bush. Enter your email address on the new website for Operation Clark County and you will receive the name and address of an American from the public voter roll. What you write in the letter is up to you, but the Guardian offers a few handy tips.
Go to:Operation Clark County
And here is a note from one of the developers, Robin Grant
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October 12, 2004
Americans sell their votes to foreigners
On this new website, Americans can sell their votes to a citizen of another nation that they feel deserves it more than them. Michael in New York would like to give his vote to an Iraqi, "...I think it's fair that you should have a say in our vote. I have no political preference, and don't usually vote anyway," he says. George in Florida would like to give his vote to an Israeli who has served in the Israeli army, because Israel is an ally in the war on terror.
SELL YOUR VOTE: The American Way
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October 11, 2004
Shop Yourself a President!
The easiest way for world citizens to circumvent FEC regulations and donate money to political causes in the US? Shopping! On top of the Bush campaign's suggested reading list is "Thank You, President Bush" by Aman Verjee, Rod D. Martin and Jeb Bush. MoveOn and ACT are currently marketing The Future Dictionary of America with contributions by Stephen King, Joyce Carol Oates, Paul Auster, Jonathan Ames, Art Spiegelman and many more. The book also includes a CD with artists such as David Byrne, R.E.M., Flaming Lips, Tom Waits, Elliott Smith and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs giving every cent of the proceeds to progressive organizations working on the 2004 election.
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October 07, 2004
US election and foreign policy
The outcome of November's US presidential election will have an impact on people far beyond America's shores. BBC News Online looks at the implications of a George Bush or John Kerry victory for countries around the world.
Please visit BBC News Online for the analysis.
Posted by worldspeaks at 03:30 PM | Email to a friend
October 05, 2004
The United States All Alone?
Today Mark Noonan, a blogger for Bush praises the US ally Poland and notes that: "Kerry's 'globe' is no more than John Kerry, the UN [sic!], France and Germany - the sum total of a Kerry Administration would actually be a United States alone in the world...abandoned allies turning their backs on us, enemies joyfully sharpening their knives with blood in their eyes, and a cynical Franco-German dominated European Union seeking new ways to undermine American power."
Tonight another televised debate... So, who should be elected VP? The man who voted against releasing "terrorist" Nelson Mandela from prison, or the man who tries hard to attract voters by promising not to oursource jobs to "overseas"?
Posted by Kajsa at 09:37 AM | Email to a friend
October 04, 2004
Swing State Deadline. Tell An American to Register Now!
Registration will end in 31 states by the end of the week. Today is the deadline for Florida...
For more information www.overseasvote2004.com and TellAnAmericanToVote.com.
Posted by Kajsa at 07:27 AM | Email to a friend
October 03, 2004
Tell Him No: Deadline is Oct 4!
Tellhim.no is the name of a Norwegian collection for an ad in the Washington Post. Although four out of five Norwegians oppose the U.S.-led war on Iraq, many feel that their government has failed to express the majority opinion of its people (by no means an exclusively Norwegian phenomenon).
October 4th is the last chance to contribute. What's the central message of the ad? That the so called "war on terror" is contraproductive and that US foreign policy needs to be changed. Here is a quote:
"We want the United States to be strong and creative enough to apologize to the Iraqi people for an unjust war, and to the Allies for having misled them. We want the USA to be generous enough to compensate the innocent victimes of violence, looting and trauma inflicted by torture."
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September 30, 2004
George Soros -- An Immigrant Voter Speaks up Against Bush
"This is the most important election of my lifetime. I have never been heavily involved in partisan politics but these are not normal times. President Bush is endangering our safety, hurting our vital interests and undermining American values (...) I grew up in Hungary, lived through fascism and the Holocaust, and then had a foretaste of communism. I learned at an early age how important it is what kind of government prevails. I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society..."
For more on the new Soros campaign, including his blog: www.georgesoros.com
Posted by worldspeaks at 02:51 PM | Email to a friend
September 28, 2004
Lack of Democracy Breeds Terror
215 Iranian intellectuals have signed an open letter to American intellectuals:
"The consequence of the Bush administration's Middle East policies has severely distorted the image of America in this region. Today's America is offering us interrogation instead of interaction, monologue instead of dialogue, arrogance instead of communication and techniques of torture instead of democracy."
Read the whole letter on Unity for Democracy and Secular Republic in Iran (Ettehade Jomhourikhahan-e Iran)
Posted by Solana at 07:36 PM | Email to a friend
"You've Got a Voice" German-American protest song
The song is "an appeal to all of us to raise our voices, to voice our criticisms, and above all to get out and vote. As part of the vote44 program against the politics of the Bush administration, the appeal is directed above all at Americans living abroad. In light of the recent elections in the states of Saxony and Brandenburg, however, where voter turnout in some places was under 50%, the song has relevance for Germany as well."
Available now for download free of charge on the homepage of
www.vote44.net
Posted by Kajsa at 09:11 AM | Email to a friend
September 21, 2004
Italians for Kerry
Andrea Vannucci, the founder of Italians for Kerry , was interviewed on RadioRAI3 today. Is there also an Italians for Bush site? Australians for Kerry? Iraqis for Bush? Argentinians for Kerry? Please email us the links and we'll happily include them on our list.
Posted by worldspeaks at 02:25 PM | Email to a friend
September 17, 2004
Open Letter to Kerry and Bush from Collegium International
"On November 2, one of you will be elected the next President of the United States. Because your great country is powerful far beyond its borders, billions of women and men who cannot vote will be profoundly affected by the choice made by the United States electorate..."
Signed by Manuel Castells, Vaclav Havel, Sadako Ogata, Mary Robinson and other luminaries.
For a background and the full text of the letter, see Katrina vanden Heuvel's blog:
www.thenation.com/edcut
Posted by worldspeaks at 09:40 PM | Email to a friend
September 14, 2004
True Americans
Ever wonder what a real Kerry supporter looks like? Think you can spot a Bush supporter a mile away? Think no more. Visit the True Americans website for a social portrait of America. This UK-based website exists to create understanding between Americans and Europeans.
America, send in your photos.
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