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Aug. 4, 2017 News Column by Jim Hightower
Memoirs of a Movement
Remembering the campaign to Save Our Springs
"...SOS Ordinance. From my vantage point, it was pure democracy in action. The people of Austin wanted to protect..."
Aug. 3, 2012 News Feature
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Newt Fakes It; and From Democracy to Plutocracy
"...of a fake campaign by a fake candidate. From Democracy to Plutocracy..."
March 25, 2011 News Column by Jim Hightower
Naked City
"...28, at austinchronicle.com/newsdesk. – Jordan Smith Lawrence Lessig: Saving Democracy..."
March 4, 2011 News Feature
Point Austin: A Green and Democratic Place
Local activists kick off co-op project with a visit from Omar Freilla
"...environmentally sustainable industries with principles of shared profits, workplace democracy, and equality...."
Oct. 2, 2009 News Column by Michael King
More From Omar Freilla
"...And they've managed to keep the model of workplace democracy even at that scale?..."
Oct. 2, 2009 News Column
Page Two: Long Days of Journeys Into Nights
In quest of a simple metaphor
"...passions were not to be trusted. In a pure democracy, they might actually do far more harm than good...."
April 17, 2009 Column by Louis Black
12
Essentially a Russianized version of the courtroom drama 12 Angry Men, 12 is a moral powerhouse that's both intellectually riveting and indescribably poetic.
"...political and economic scandals have shaken the pillars of democracy. 12 is every bit as much of a moral..."
April 10, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
What Would Chairman Mao Say?
AFS Documentary Tour presents Please Vote for Me
"...film's (slightly yawn-inducing) wonky-but-worthy context as part of Why Democracy?, a documentary project using film to start a global..."
Sept. 12, 2008 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis
District Eternity
As Ronnie Earle steps down, he looks back on his life's work
"...most important things that we could do to restore democracy, because if democracy depends on money, it isn't democracy..."
April 11, 2008 News Feature by Michael King
CNN Obama-Clinton Debate: The full transcript
Word for word, the whole shebang
"...opportunity. The people of Cuba deserve to have a democracy. And this gives the Cuban government, under Raul Castro,..."
Feb. 21, 2008 News Post by Lee Nichols
Opposition to Social Security 'No Match' Letters Mounting
Activists take action against Department of Homeland Security plans to turn Social Security 'no match' letters into a vehicle for immigration enforcement
"...not match records in government databases," reports radio/television program Democracy Now!, noting that "Milwaukee, Wisconsin, had the largest [protest]..."
Sept. 21, 2007 News Feature by Cheryl Smith
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Stamping Out the Free Press; and Democracy v. ZIP Code 10021
"...not a left-wing or right-wing issue – it's a democracy issue...."
May 4, 2007 News Column by Jim Hightower
Letters @ 3AM
Republican stewardship of our government has miserably failed. Polls show that Americans finally realize this, but we don't know if that will translate into votes.
"...as well as our politicians, value victory more than democracy. Fairness used to be a much-touted American ideal. You..."
Oct. 27, 2006 Column by Michael Ventura
Point Austin: Oppel vs. Chomsky
On seeing the world through blood-drenched eyes
"...argument secondhand, as Shihadeh cited his statement (on the Democracy Now! radio and television program, July 14) that the..."
Aug. 11, 2006 News Column by Michael King
Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
"...chunk of Travis Co. Democratics. Before he left the Democracy for Texas gathering last week, he was presented with..."
Oct. 14, 2005 News Feature
The Right to Engage in Activities the Majority Finds Abhorrent
"...wants because it can. Is the United States about democracy, or is it about liberty? I think the founding..."
May 4, 2005 Postmarks
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Bush makes a mess of the Food and Drug
Administration; and preaches to Russia about the
merits of hypocracy – err, democracy
"...fix the agency, rather than create a toothless board?PREACHING DEMOCRACY WHILE DRIFTING TO AUTOCRACY The problem for U.S. presidents..."
March 18, 2005 News Column by Jim Hightower
Who's Afraid of the Big Bad socialist?
In Howard Zinn's play, Karl Marx is back, and he's pissed
"...made privately by the owners? At work, there's no democracy. The bosses decide what you're going to get paid,..."
Feb. 25, 2005 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo
An Unrepentant Anarchist
"...grasp. Time discredits everything it encompasses. To imply that democracy is the sole salvation for its victims is an..."
Oct. 14, 2004 Postmarks
Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
"...ACLU. "All aspects of the voting process in a democracy should be open and transparent, to give citizens confidence..."
Aug. 13, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison
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Our readers talk back.
"...Nader from the ballot wherever possible, an obstruction of democracy that is unprecedented in a presidential election. When that..."
Aug. 6, 2004 Column
Fast, Twisted, and Deeply Paranoid
A year of notes on The Manchurian Candidate
remake's script
"...a weird way communism is supposed to be pure democracy – MC suggested that the disease eating us was..."
July 30, 2004 Screens Feature by Louis Black
Fast, Twisted, and Deeply Paranoid
A year of notes on 'The Manchurian Candidate' remake's script
"...a weird way communism is supposed to be pure democracy – MC suggested that the disease eating us was..."
July 23, 2004 Screens Feature by Louis Black
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Our readers talk back.
"...9 editorial ["Page Two"] you state, "I believe in democracy" and "I believe in the two-party system." These beliefs..."
July 16, 2004 Column
Time to Reform Electoral System
"...9 editorial ["Page Two"] you state, "I believe in democracy" and "I believe in the two-party system." These beliefs..."
July 12, 2004 Postmarks
Page Two
The rhetorical extremes about Ronald Reagan belie a country balanced on a rhythm of democracy
"...down on the liberals in a great celebration of democracy. If there isn't enough granite left for another head,..."
June 18, 2004 Column by Louis Black
The Man Behind the List
Craig of Craigslist really exists, and he's about more than selling your tuba
"...a mystery; he spoke about a new kind of democracy...."
March 5, 2004 Screens Feature by Courtney Fitzgerald
What's at Stake?
The federal redistricting trial will reverberate through national politics for years.
"...The Future of Democracy There's no question that U.S. electoral politics is a..."
Dec. 26, 2003 News Column by Michael King
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"...reform and ethics legislation as magic wands for popular democracy." Most folks in our camp don't attribute such talismanic..."
