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Organization: Green Innovations Inc
To: Civic-Courage@yahoogroups.com
From: "Philip Sutton" <Philip.Sutton@green-innovations.asn.au>
Date sent: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 17:58:04 +1100
Subject: [Civic-Courage] RE: "Defenders of Democracy"
Hi all,
> Would others be interested in forming an organization "Defenders of
> Democracy" with the explicit aim of preventing such an inadvertent and
> disastrous slide to fascism?
There are three intitiatives at least that I know of that might be working on this agenda:
http://www.yourdemocracy.net.au/
MISSION: To provide a safe, readily accessible space for Australians who care about our democracy - however they vote and whatever political philosophy they support - to actively help preserve and enhance it.
VISION : To harness the desire of Australians to actively defend our democracy by providing the means for them to do so in the way they wish and to help such Australians to connect to and work with others across Australia and the world with the same desire
http://democratic.audit.anu.edu.au/
Democratic Audit of Australia: The Political Science Program in the Australian National University's Research School of Social Sciences is conducting an Audit to assess Australia's strengths and weaknesses as a democratic society
www.getup.org.au/
A political motivated movement attempting to enlist like-minded people who want to bring participation back into democracy.
Cheers, Philip
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