[sustran] Re: Only three days left to give your views
Morten Lange
morten7an at yahoo.com
Thu Jun 11 19:46:29 JST 2009
Thanks for the link, Paul.
As to the democracy comment from Eric :
Democracy is a big and important word, in my mind. Like sustainable development. Something to strive for.
I think the poll would have more to do with democracy if the primary arguments would be easily available as links from the poll. Also I think options like the following are missing :
* The main thing is to get more activity and input, especially from the "Global South".
* More input from Asia is what I want. Excluding other inputs from the Global South is not what I want though
* Global North centric activity should be toned down
* I do not know / not sure
* Not interested
And perhaps polls like this one should cater for a first, second and third priority choice.
To illustrate with a U.S.A. centric example (although I am not from the US) : Some persons would like to elect Ralph Nader, and show their preference for him as president, but in the (probable) event that he does not win, they would prefer to weigh in with the democrat candidate rather than the republican.
I know I am stretching it. But democracy is worth streching for.
Best Regards,
Morten
--- On Thu, 11/6/09, Paul Barter <paulbarter at nus.edu.sg> wrote:
From: Paul Barter <paulbarter at nus.edu.sg>
Subject: [sustran] Re: Only three days left to give your views
To: Sustran-discuss at list.jca.apc.org
Date: Thursday, 11 June, 2009, 9:17 AM
It may seem daunting to go and
find the opinion poll on World Streets.
So here is a link that will take
you straight there.
Visit http://tinyurl.com/kuebe9 to go to vote for your preferred choice for the geographical
focus of sustran-discuss.
Paul
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Behalf Of Eric Britton
Sent: Thursday, 11 June 2009 4:06 PM
To: Sustran-discuss at list.jca.apc.org
Subject: [sustran] Only three days left to give your views
The Sustran geo focus poll over at World
Streets – www.worldstreets.org, a bit
down on the left menu – is giving some surprising results. Surprising to me at
least. Wow!
One of the things about democracy is that
it teaches.
Don’t forget to make your voice heard. A two minute deal for
Sustran. Sustran deserves it.
Eric Britton
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