If you have a favourite web-based policy community for the people in your country please could you send me the bookmark Chris Macrae, [email protected]
I will collate and return to this list in due course As an example I think of the US www.moveon.org <http://www.moveon.org/> ;it may not be wholly anyone's cup of tea but its campaigns are clearly using web power, and they seem to raise debates for the people that the main parties- and certainly the mass media like CBS - wont touch I am asking this because I'm volunteering on behalf of a UK group www.simpol.org <http://www.simpol.org/> (this does not mean I know the people at simpol.org very well but it seems to me that a starting point is to find people's favourite open policy webs in different countries and try to work out what they do that helps the people network common sense cheers, chris macrae recent extract from a simpol newsletter Making Politicians Act in Our Global Common Interest Whether it's global warming, environmental destruction, global poverty or unfair trade, there's a manifest and growing 'disconnect' between the interests of ordinary people and the actions of politicians who frequently act against our best interests. But it's not difficult to see why. To solve these problems unavoidably means increasing taxes and regulations on industry and markets, thus increasing their costs. But with corporations and financial markets able to move investment and jobs out of any country intending to impose increased taxes, etc it's little wonder no government does so. In fact, they're doing the reverse, so our problems only get worse. Today, this results in worsening global and local problems and rampant voter apathy. But soon it could become nothing less than a question of humanity's very survival. * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected], Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html
