DEMOCRACY
“…government: of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
Emulative of the Sudbury Valley School (SVS), we invite and accept signatures from anybody regardless of age.
We now have high school students signing; please keep inviting them.
And, please take a look at this very brief (6 minutes only) video of a SVS school meeting:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzvCuZ7fwIA
For more about the SVS-style democracy:
http://www.sudval.org/05_onepersononevote.html
Also, let us encourage all elected officials to emulate the UK’s Prime Minister’s website which has this:
July 29, 2009 at 7:06 pm |
[...] IN THE SPIRIT OF DEMOCRATIC UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE INSPIRED BY THE SUDBURY VALLEY SCHOOL WHERE A 4-YEAR OLD HAS THE SAME VOTE AS A 60-YEAR OLD, ALL [...]
July 30, 2009 at 10:37 am |
For Robert D. Putnam’s “What Makes Democracy Work” please go to
http://tinyurl.com/esnyc-democracy
Thank you.
August 2, 2009 at 7:08 pm |
Let’s urge all our elected officials to emulate the UK’s Prime Minister who has this page in his website:
http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/
“Petitions have long been sent to the Prime Minister by post or delivered to the Number 10 door in person. You can now both create and sign petitions on this website too, giving you the opportunity to reach a potentially wider audience and to deliver your petition directly to Downing Street.”