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Anyone in here Politically active IRL?

I go to town meetings and shit. Don't really participate, but I love to listen.

since i only respond in matters of philosophy as a general rule, i'll modify the question to apply to me, and the answer is yes - i am philosophically active in 'real' life.

I'm a member of the Australian Democrats and do admin work for them part time. We're a fairly small party and do pretty well to poll more than about 3-4% at the moment. Considering running for parliament at the next federal election as well depending on the time / costs involved and whether I can get nominated as a candidate (which shouldn't be too hard as there's only about 40 other members in my area, most of whom wouldn't consider running anyway). The current federal member for my electorate (Kevin Andrews) is the fucking arsehole who criminalised euthanasia and introduced the recent controversial Industrial Relations legislation in this country, so at the very least I'd get a great deal of satisfaction from running against him.

I'm a member of the "Moderate Youth League", which is the youth organisation (up 30 years old) of the "Moderate Party".

And since this is an election year in Sweden I have been quite active, both in campaigning and planning. Hopefully I will have enough time in the summer to convince a few from the dark side

I'm not happy at all how things are developing in Sweden though (politics vice), pretty much everyone is in the centre, and there is not a lot of difference between the parties. I actually had quite developed plans to start my own ultra liberal party and run for parliament (we did a website, recruited a few members and set up a manifest), but unforuntely other things happend so that didn't get enough time But maybe for the next elections.

Maybe someone from here is interested in setting up something similar for the EU parliament? =)

Member of Protest Warriors.

I'd like to run for mayor in my town but I don't feel like actually getting up and getting all the signatures for my run against her. She has been our mayor for the past 12yrs and she has like 70% of the voters behind her. I just wished people knew how bad she will eventually screw this town. And her salary is over $200000. So I have heard from one of my friends who is a friend of the Mayor's child.

I heard that the board's total salary is over 1.5million, they are all thieves and I wished they would be replaced. Oh, and she uses tax-payers money to go on "political" trips to Israel and other places.

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Originally posted by Renegade I'm a member of the Australian Democrats and do admin work for them part time. We're a fairly small party and do pretty well to poll more than about 3-4% at the moment. Considering running for parliament at the next federal election as well depending on the time / costs involved and whether I can get nominated as a candidate (which shouldn't be too hard as there's only about 40 other members in my area, most of whom wouldn't consider running anyway). The current federal member for my electorate (Kevin Andrews) is the fucking arsehole who criminalised euthanasia and introduced the recent controversial Industrial Relations legislation in this country, so at the very least I'd get a great deal of satisfaction from running against him.

hey, best of luck man!! youd make question time worth watching thats for sure!

i used to be politically active; used to run with a bunch of radical socialists back at my australian national university days. bit too jaded these days to bother with much, more of a water-cooler general im afraid.

I vote on all the ballot issues and try to stay informed on them.....does that count?

I once held a rally of support for our most corrupt government minister when he was about to get fired, in front of the government building. The policemen were pretty amused with my speech

And I'm planning to start my own religion, but most of you know that by now already.

I've also considered joining some wacky party but I never quite got around to do it.

Since I can't vote anywhere, I usually try to be mute about politics IRL and present myself as unopinionated or "it doesn't really matter" (which is slightly true). And as a resident and non-citizen of the country I live in, I try and not get too involved in political matters as I dont' believe it is my place. But every now and then I will go into political/philosophical debates with people.

And that's about it.

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Originally posted by donnybrasco I vote on all the ballot issues and try to stay informed on them.....does that count?

Yeah that counts!

People don't vote for the small things in their town, and thats when stupid shit can be funded by tax dollars. So good job man. I haven't registered to vote yet... sooo, you know. I'll do it soon!

Yah, voting is such a simple thing, yet a lot of people don't do it.

It's the first source of power you have...and it costs you nothing but a little time.

I'm not into alot of conspracies.

But this one i am pretty sure about:

Our town lists all the things that are being voted for in the newspaper. Like, fire department funds, road maintainance, etc. But the thing is that it's listed in the back page of the newspaper, in the classifieds, in the smallest print. I personally think this is done so people don't see it, and they won't vote.

i'm not politically active in Australia at all, but i'll be in South America for a year come August and a few months of that will be doing Aid word in impoverished countries like Bolivia (if that counts)

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Originally posted by tathi i'm not politically active in Australia at all, but i'll be in South America for a year come August and a few months of that will be doing Aid word in impoverished countries like Bolivia (if that counts)

Wow, that sounds like a great opportunity, such experience can come from that! What organization are you in?

Knowledge can only go so far. I would much rather have experience!

I've just finished my Teach English as a Foreign Language certification through i-to-i who also provide many volunteer and conservation projects for its students. I'm also looking into the many options available on http://www.volunteerabroad.com/search.cfm

I haven't joined anything as of yet as i'm keeping my options open, i land in Santiago de Chile on August 1st where i hope to get some paid English Teaching for a few months (and become more fluent in spanish) before heading up the continent to more impoverished nations where my skills as an IT Professional (the most meaningless bullshit job available in Australia) can help those who need it more.

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Originally posted by Marc Summers I'm not into alot of conspracies. But this one i am pretty sure about : Our town lists all the things that are being voted for in the newspaper. Like, fire department funds, road maintainance, etc. But the thing is that it's listed in the back page of the newspaper, in the classifieds, in the smallest print. I personally think this is done so people don't see it, and they won't vote.

I'm going to guess it has more to do with the law actually.

I know when it comes to opening a new business, you are required to run the name of the new business (the DBA, "Doing Business As") in the tiny Classifieds section of the paper for a certain amount of time in order to allow anyone who has a problem with you using that name to come forward and contest it.

Who knows; Maybe in your area (all areas for all I know), ballot issues are required to be run in the paper so that it can't be argued later that the info wasn't avaiable to the voting public.? The fact that it's in small print wouldn't be surprising either if this was the case, as this would be purely for legal purposes that these ads are run...and fine print is almost always used where it's a matter of meeting some legal notice requirement.

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Originally posted by donnybrasco I'm going to guess it has more to do with the law actually. I know when it comes to opening a new business, you are required to run the name of the new business (the DBA, "Doing Business As") in the tiny Classifieds section of the paper for a certain amount of time in order to allow anyone who has a problem with you using that name to come forward and contest it. Who knows; Maybe in your area (all areas for all I know), ballot issues are required to be run in the paper so that it can't be argued later that the info wasn't avaiable to the voting public.? The fact that it's in small print wouldn't be surprising either if this was the case, as this would be purely for legal purposes that these ads are run...and fine print is almost always used where it's a matter of meeting some legal notice requirement.

Right, small is cheaper, and usually legal notices require a lot of text....

Has anyone taken speech lessons for public speaking? What's that like? Because I have a feeling I am going to be speaking alot in my life.

^^ Yeah i've done a course on public speaking, it's a good way to practice in front of like minded people until you posses the skills to do it in front of any crowd

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Originally posted by tathi I've just finished my Teach English as a Foreign Language certification through i-to-i who also provide many volunteer and conservation projects for its students. I'm also looking into the many options available on http://www.volunteerabroad.com/search.cfm

So you're gonna teach all those people to speak in that weird australian accent of yours and the poor guys will think they mastered english?

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Originally posted by Marc Summers Has anyone taken speech lessons for public speaking? What's that like? Because I have a feeling I am going to be speaking alot in my life.

Yes, its good. Depended on teacher of course.

My speech teacher was an ex-US Congressman so it was very good, helped me a lot.

Public speaking comes naturally for me, so when I took my speech class in college I didn't have to do hardly anything and aced the class.

I'm not as active at the moment as I would like to be, but that's going to change. I used to attend town meetings all the time, but that was a couple years ago. I've been kicking around the idea of going back to school to get a degree in political science, so eventually I can become one of the assholes that screws over the little guy with all kinds of rules that I won't have to follow.

I have been really active the last year, to promote the yes for the European Constitution.

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Originally posted by d-miurge I have been really active the last year, to promote the yes for the European Constitution.

Hehe, I know your feeling, I was campaigning for a "yes" in the referrendum Sweden had on wheather to join the Euro or not, and we lost in an election very similar in insanity to yours.

Keep up the good work though

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