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  • Voters Evolt!
    28 June 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    Voters Evolt! promotes a Peaceful Political Evolution consisting of a national voting holiday and uniform paper ballot which asks questions on a National Policy Referendum and provides for a Write-in Vote for President.
    Interviews regarding the Evolt were conducted at the Netroots Nation Conference held in June 2011 in Minneapolis.
    Among other political leaders, comments were obtained from five Congressmen, one U.S. Senator and three state representatives.
    Here’s what they had to say (…)

  • Another Blow to the NWO: "The Irish People have Spoken": Lisbon is Dead"
    18 June 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Dissident Voice June 17th, 2008
    by Mike Whitney
    Source: us.i1.yimg.com
    Public opinion will be led to adopt, without knowing it, the proposals that we dare not present to them directly . . . All the earlier proposals will be in the new text, but will be hidden and disguised in some way. V.Giscard D’Estaing, Le Monde, June 14, 2007
    Irish voters delivered a knockout punch to European elites and corporatists last Friday by rejecting plans for an EU Superstate. The so-called Lisbon (…)

  • Bolivia: mutiny in the provinces
    14 June 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    On Sunday, another two Bolivian departments voted for autonomy. The referendum was accompanied by confrontations between supporters and opponents of autonomy, road blocks and the burning of ballot boxes. With a majority of nearly half a million, the residents of Beni and Pando voted for a statute that will make them more independent of President Evo Morales’ government.
    by correspondent Cees Zoon* 02-06-2008
    Beni and Pando, which together make up Bolivia’s Amazon region, were following (…)

  • Lisbon Treaty looks certain to be rejected (video)
    13 June 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Ballot boxes are opened in the RDS in Dublin as counting begins in the Lisbon Treaty referendum today. Photograph: Nial Carson/PA
    The Lisbon Treaty looks set to be rejected by the Irish people as counting of votes continues around the country this evening.
    With only seven of 43 constituencies left to declare a result, the No vote is leading by 53.4 per cent to 46.6 per cent. All but six constituencies have rejected the treaty, with a national running total of 641,786 voting in favour of (…)

  • Sinn Féin calls for massive turnout in Lisbon Treaty referendum
    11 June 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Sinn Féin MEP Mary Lou McDonald speaking on the eve of poll on the Lisbon Treaty referendum called on people to come out and vote in massive numbers to give the government a strong mandate to re-negotiate the Treaty and get a better deal for Ireland. Ms. McDonald was on a walkabout in Dublin City Centre with Aengus Ó Snodaigh TD and Councillor Killian Forde.
    Ms. McDonald said:
    “Tomorrow the people of Ireland go to the polls to take a decision on the Lisbon Treaty. We are the only people (…)

  • For a better deal in Europe - Vote No 2 Lisbon (videos)
    11 June 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Make sure your voice is heard on Thursday and vote No to the Lisbon Treaty.
    Send the Irish government back to Europe with a strong mandate for new negotiations.
    A better deal is possible.
    Watch Sinn Féin’s final No 2 Lisbon press conference here - select "Gerry Adams".
    Watch Mary Lou McDonald MEP on Monday’s Questions & Answers debating the Treaty. Watch here.
    http://www.no2lisbon.ie/

  • Sinn Fein urges ’No’ vote
    11 June 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    London - Irish Republican party Sinn Fein urged voters on Wednesday to vote against the European Union’s controversial treaty, in a crunch referendum being watched anxiously by Ireland’s EU partners.
    Sinn Fein, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army, is the only mainstream Irish party against the Lisbon Treaty, whose fate is to be voted on by the Irish on Thursday.
    "We are the only people in Europe to have a vote and it is important that as many people as possible come out and (…)

  • Irish "No" camp: EU treaty bad for democracy
    11 June 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Critics of the European Union reform treaty in Ireland, which will vote on the document on June 12, are a diverse group united by the idea it would undermine democracy.
    Opponents include pacifists, anti-abortionists, nationalists and a handful of business people who share the view that Ireland and its people will be left with a weaker voice.
    A new opinion poll on Friday indicated their campaign may succeed. Rejection from Ireland, the only EU country to hold a referendum on the pact, (…)

  • Vote no to the Lisbon treaty
    9 June 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Workers Solidarity Movement are printing and distributing 50,000 of the following leaflets in our campaign for a ’No’ vote on the referendum on the Lisbon Treaty.
    >> Lisbon - So What’s It All About Then?
    Over recent months, there’s been endless talk about the Lisbon Treaty. Most political parties advise us that we’ll be embarrassed and economically ruined if we don’t vote ‘Yes’. Groups advocating a ‘No’ vote tell us that we will lose our democracy and sovereignty if we do vote ‘Yes’. (…)

  • Lisbon Treaty faces rejection as No vote doubles in latest poll
    6 June 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    by STEPHEN COLLINS, Political Editor
    THE LISBON Treaty could face a shock rejection with the No side now in the lead, according to the findings of the latest Irish Times /TNS mrbi poll.
    It will take an unprecedented swing in the last week of the campaign for the treaty to be carried.
    The poll shows the number of people intending to vote No has almost doubled to 35 per cent (up 17 points) since the last poll three weeks ago, while the number of the Yes side has declined to 30 per cent (…)