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Nye Frank

Disability Discrimination Basics - Learn About the Law - 0 views

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disability discrimination elders Nye Frank Lee Racing Riverside county Courts

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  • Nye Frank on 26 Sep 09
     
    One of the first things that happened to deny Lee Frank her rights was the Denial of a DA Elder Victims Advocate a Federally Funded program that she was told Riverside County did not have. later the DA got a award for this in public. The Legislature put in place special rights and protections for elders that the officials prevented and denied to Lee Frank
Tracy Viselli

Journalism.co.uk :: 'Democratic legitimation via the web is not enough', says Clay Shirky - 0 views

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  • There needs to be some mechanism by which executive or legislative branches can say we are taking this under advisement, but we are not taking dictation [from special interest groups]
    • Tracy Viselli
      Tracy Viselli on 23 Feb 09
       
      This is the crux I think--rather than taking it under advisement, can't there be a bridge between digg style and taking it under advisement? And what is the bridge or layer to add?
  • "All the rhetoric,  including - I'm embarrassed to say - some of mine, has assumed in the past that democratic legitimation is itself enough to regard aggregate public opinion as being clearly binding on the government," Shirky explains.
  • "I've changed my mind,"
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  • For example, during the Obama campaign, he watched the campaign for legalisation of the medicinal use of marijuana become a prioritised item on the Change.gov website.
  • this type of online phenomenon is a 'net positive' for democracy, it is not 'an absolute positive.' It doesn't necessarily mean these representational tools are a replacement for the vote,
  • Tracy Viselli on 23 Feb 09
     
    Clay Shirky on net positives and absolute positives? How do we get there and still give the it's due?
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