Coalition

It seems the UK is in a tizzy because their election did not give them a political party majority in Parliament. But I just don’t understand why it is really so bad if the political parties have to form a compromised coalition to rule. As an American, the only time I feel secure is during the congressional non-legislative recess periods and I would be happy to have a hung congress, a congress requiring a Democrat-Republican coalition to pass laws. How many Americans here wish we had a hung congress?

The government that governs least, governs best! Bring on the hung congress!

Did you know that besides Newmans Own salad dressings raising almost $300 million for charity that each year PaulNewman sent 13,000 seriously ill children to his hole in the wall gang camps. Given the recognition that a Canadian Prime Minister can only dream of Paul Newman a giant of an actor chose to also be a giant of a real man who cared about more than his own ambitions.
Update coming..
Mr Harper as Prime Minister is obsessed with being a majority Prime Minister just the same as a person who never can have enough money ever! Sort of like a man whose whole life is about just one more last score.
As we all know on the LAST SCORE something always goes wrong. It is Murphy’s Law but not Rex Murphy!

Vote, unite on what’s right and leash and pick up after your political pets
stick up for ALL our dreams/Stephen

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The rivalry between Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari and his former coalition partner Nawaz Sharif is creating more turmoil in a country facing economic and political troubles.
After the Supreme court last week banned Sharif from holding elective office, protests broke out the major cities.
The dispute comes as lawyers and opposition leaders plan nationwide marches to press Mr. Zardari to reinstate the country’s former chief justice.

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The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom was a large political rally that took place in Washington, D.C. on August 28, 1963. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his historic “I Have a Dream” speech advocating racial harmony at the Lincoln Memorial during the march.

The march was organized by a group of civil rights, labor, and religious organizations, under the theme “jobs, and freedom.” Estimates of the number of participants varied from 200,000 (police) to over 300,000 (leaders of the march). About 80% of the marchers were African American and the rest were white and other ethnic groups.

The march is widely credited as helping to pass the Civil Rights Act (1964) and the National Voting Rights Act (1965).

The march was initiated by A. Philip Randolph, the president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, president of the Negro American Labor Council, and vice president of the AFL-CIO. Randolph had planned a similar march in 1941. The threat of the earlier march had convinced President Roosevelt to establish the Committee on Fair Employment Practice and bar discriminatory hiring in the defense industry. Randolph said “I pledge my heart, and my mind, and my body, to the achievement of social peace through social justice.”

The 1963 march was an important part of the rapidly expanding Civil Rights Movement. In the political sense, the march was organized by a coalition of organizations and their leaders including: Randolph, James Farmer (president of the Congress of Racial Equality), John Lewis (president of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee), Martin Luther King, Jr. (president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference), Roy Wilkins (president of the NAACP), Whitney Young (president of the National Urban League).

The mobilization and logistics of the actual march itself was administered by Bayard Rustin, a civil rights veteran and organizer of the 1947 Journey of Reconciliation, the first of the Freedom Rides to test the Supreme Court ruling that banned racial discrimination in interstate travel. Rustin was a long-time associate of both Randolph and Dr. King. With Randolph concentrating on building the march’s political coalition, Rustin built and led the team of activists and organizers who publicized the march and recruited the marchers, coordinated the buses and trains, provided the marshals, and set up and administered all of the logistic details of a mass march in the nation’s capitol.

The march was not universally supported among African-Americans. Some civil rights activists were concerned that it might turn violent, which could undermine pending legislation and damage the international image of the movement. The march was condemned by Malcolm X, spokesperson for the Nation of Islam, who termed it the “farce on Washington”.

March organizers themselves disagreed over the purpose of the march. The NAACP and Urban League saw it as a gesture of support for a civil rights bill that had been introduced by the Kennedy Administration. Randolph, King, and the SCLC saw it as a way of raising both civil rights and economic issues to national attention beyond the Kennedy bill. SNCC and CORE saw it as a way of challenging and condemning the Kennedy administration’s inaction and lack of support for civil rights for African-Americans.

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Coalition ‘YES’ Rally, Parliament Hill, Ottawa, Canada, Dec. 4, 2008 – Part 3

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Choose the best answer:

a. John Maynard Keynes.
b. the National Socialist Government.
c. David Lloyd George.
d. the very popular Prince of Wales.
e. a coalition government of the major political parties.

e

Moreover, in the National Assembly and in forming cabinet coalitions, is it usually majority or coalition ones that form?

multiparty

Tribute to a wonderful woman . We’re with you but cannot vote for Obama. We can’t do something that doesn’t feel right to us. Even if you are his running mate.

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Rifts within the grand coalition government continued to widen Wednesday, with partners, ODM and PNU going at each others neck. Over 40 PNU mps met Wednesday, 8th April 2009 at the Kenyatta International Conference Centre and told their ODM counterparts to expect a vicious political battle. But ODM has maintained its tough stance saying it stands by their party leader Raila Odinga. In their meeting, PNU announced it would soon commence political rallies ostensibly to explain to their supporters the state of politics in Kenya.

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Join Gordene MacKenzie and Nancy Nangeroni as they speak with Gunner Scott, co-founder and director of the Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition (MTPC), about changes to public policy that are needed in order to create a truly transgender-inclusive society. Scott has earned widespread respect with his leadership in the Massachusetts-area transgender community, helping to create some of the most comprehensive resources available to transgender persons anywhere, including a free legal clinic and much more. MTPC is currently the lead sponsor of a legislative initiative to provide protections for all people against discrimination in employment, education, credit and accommodations based on gender identity or expression.

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