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Following the truth&dare challenge by John Scalzi in his blog and the great and wild responses in the 170 comments there and here and elsewhere, I decided to have a go at this as well.

Feel free to take up the challenge and answer here or post your list in your LJ oder Blog or Facebook Notes.

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We owe Ralph Nader and Cynthia McKinney an apology.They were right about Barack Obama. They were right about the corporate state.They had the courage of their convictions and they stood fast despite wholesaledefections and ridicule by liberals and progressives. 
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Greenvision song contest 2009

The European Green Party (EGP) is launching a campaign song competition
forthe 2009 European Parliamentary campaign. This campaign songcompetition is open to everyone and anyone (individualsinger-songwriters or bands) who feel
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...and I was at the 30. Federal Conference (BuKo) of the German Green Youth (in the 20th year of the Federation of Young European Greens FYEG).
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Tomorrow is the election in Bavaria and Daniel Cohn-Bendit as the keynote speaker gave a pronounced talk about new times which needs new alliances. Get out of your trenches, he demands, the time of the political camps is over in that neither of the two camps can get a sufficient majority in all of the German states. Dany le Rouge, as he was called ( Read more... )

I'm in Munich at the moment, after spending the larger part of yesterday in the Black Forest, discussing the future of Ferienheim Aschenhütte, a youth-hostel and 'Schullandheim' in Bad Herrenalb. Yesterday evening I was at the focal event of the bavarian election campaign of the Green Party in Munich, where Daniel Cohn-Bendit was the keynote ( Read more... )

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