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The Direct Democracy Forum commenced a mailing list on eGroups in September 1998. The DDF list is in English, and membership is open. The message archive is available on YahooGroups, but most messages have now been archived here and have being organised into a very much quicker means of reading the archives than the bloated YahooGroups archives are. The topic of the list was to discuss what we are doing or might do to promote Direct Democracy in each of our individual parts of the world, or in our field of influence, it was not primarily a debate forum.
As of May 2002 the DDF list has become an announcements-only list. The purpose is simply to keep Direct Democracy proponents and activists informed (zero to two messages per month) on what other DD projects are doing.
As an alternative, you may subscribe simply using email to ddf-subscribe@yahoogroups.com.
You can also unsubscribe to ddf-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com, but as this will always be maintained as a low-volume mailing list you will only need to unsubscribe when you change your email address.
The address for posting is ddf@yahoogroups.com but you need to subscribe in order to post (otherwise I have to approve your message, which is okay when appropriate).
Future lists are planned in Indonesian, Esperanto, Russian, and maybe your native language (if not English). Contact us if you wish to start a list in your own language. Here is a list of Direct Democracy groups in languages other than English.
Since early 1999 there has been another mailing list at egroups (now YahooGroups) called Continuing International Congress on Direct Democracy (CICDD). http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cicdd
The CICDD list is a more active discussion list encompassing a wide variety of democracy proponents from the many espousing referenda and representation formulas, voting systems, and other reforms of the representative democracy system, to those standing for pure Direct Democracy without representatives or politicians.
An American (USA) direct democracy project. Democracy 2.0 by Steve Magruder. Find the D2 Discussion Zone at d2dz.democracy2.org .
This is an English-speaking discussion group run by Wayne Hall that grew from a meeting in the Ama Lahi taverna in Athens, Greece. The Amalahi / HDDF website maintains its Ama lahi discussion forum at YahooGroups.
View this comprehensive alphabetical list of direct democracy groups at DMOZ, or sorted by Google ranking at Google.com !
The Network for Direct Democracy in Europe encompasses various national groups across Europe aiming at direct democracy initiatives within representative democracy. (Individual member groups would need to be asked if they support full direct democracy replacing representative legislatures.)
The democracy-europe group at YahooGroups is a fully moderated group started on the 31st of December 2000 (the last day of the twentieth century) with 260 members as of 2003-09-23! (That's 95 more than the previous time I checked!)
Teledemocracy Action News + Network includes direct democracy and the Continuing International Congress on Direct Democracy (CICDD) group, and is edited by Ted Becker at Auburn University in Alabama.
This is an initiative (lead by former Senator for Alaska, Mike Gravel) for a constitutional amendment to adopt parallel direct and representative legislatures in the United States of America. The Philadelphia 2 (P2DD) now redirects to the voting system at https://votep2.us/ and the information web site National Initiate for Democracy (NI4D) is now at ni4d.us . There is an NI4D discussion group at YahooGroups started on 2000-12-06 with 91 members as at 2003-09-23, but they also have a web-based forum on the NI4D site with only five members and eight posts as of today.
Australian debating forums with results submitted to politicians. PowerUp Australia aims to empower citizens through collective action. It is a non-profit organisation not aligned with any political parties or ideology (other than direct democracy). Being self-contained on their own website, using free open-source (PHP-Nuke) software, this provides more features and better privacy than a single YahooGroups forum. Australians should definitely participate!
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