The Isocracy Network

Isocracy Newsletter #17. June 30, 2010.

News: 'Bloody Sunday Inquiry' Published. Violence and Voting in Kyrgyzstan. Australia Changes Prime Minister.

Actions: Vote Against The Afghan War. End Offshore Drilling.

Meetings: First Melbourne (Australia) Meeting.

Article:The Evolution of the Human Spirit

The fourteenth Isocracy Newsletter comes with the following content:

Changes in Government: Austrian Presidential election. International News: Greek Bailout and Austerity Measures, Thailand Red Shirt Victory, Somalia Bombing, Haradhere taken, Nepal Protest. Isocracy: "Us Now" Movie Promotion, Foundation Meeting Actions: Break Up The Big Banks, Climate Change Failure, Whaling Petition, Australian Land Tax

More at: http://isocracy.org/node/51

Attention is particularly drawn to the "Us, Now" movie available for free at http://talk.usnowfilm.com/ and the first (Melbourne) meeting of the Isocracy Network.

An essay has also been published on how to provide public funding with special reference to the Henry Review of taxtion in Australia

"Public Finance: The Spectre of Henry"

http://isocracy.org/node/50

Isocracy Newsletter #12: March 30, 2010

Changes in Government: Iraqi elections, Colombian elections, Latvian government collapses. International News: Israeli expansion into east Jerusalem, Universal Health Care bill in the United States, Continued violence in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Somalia.

More at: http://isocracy.org/node/46

Article: How defenders of slavery mothballed a constitutional right.

When it comes to complexity, The First Amendment is rivaled perhaps only by the 14th Amendment. There are voluminous bodies of law attached to a number of brief clauses; non-establishment of religion by law, free exercise of religion, free speech, freedom of the press, and the freedom of assembly. Any one of those clauses have been the subject of many important court rulings.

Then there is this odd clause at the very end - to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. It’s rarely discussed in legal treatises and there are precious few cases where the “Petition Clause” is at issue.

More at: http://isocracy.org/node/45

See: http://isocracy.org/node/40

Election roundup: Costa Rica, Ukraine.

News: Coup in Niger, Cluster Bomb Ban, Assassination of Hamas Commander, US Property Market Crumbles.

Actions: Ugandan Gay Death Penalty, Brownbaggers.org.

Essay: All Politicians Are Unrepresentative Swill

http://isocracy.org/node/39

"We believe in the strength and the rule of the people; in government of the People, by the People and for the People. Equality is the literal meaning of the word Isocracy"

Grant Allen, "The Isocratic Party" (Chapter One) in "The New Party Described By Some Of Its Members" (1894) by Andrew Reid (Independent Labour Party of Great Britain)

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The latest Isocracy Newsletter (#6) is now available. It includes a review of Dominique Moisi's "The Geopolitics of Emotion", a campaign against a proposed escalation of 40,000 U.S. troops to Afghanistan costing $100 billion USD, a secret copyright treaty and user disconnection in the UK and US, and the development of Isocracy across different social networking sites.