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Index
Ed Schwartz
Lisa Sieberg
Bob Ewing
Michael Carr
John Kares Smith
Jillaine Smith
Tim Stevens
Rick Blum
Kenneth Tollenaar
Bill Selmeier
Karen A. Metivier Carreiro
Calvin Byrd
Coralee Whitcomb
Crystal M. Litz
Creed Pogu
Kevin Wolf
William Russell
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Ed Schwartz, Philadelphia, edcivic@libertynet.org
http://libertynet.org/~edcivic/iscvhome.html
ALSO..http://libertynet.org/community/phila/natl.html
Institute for the Study of Civic Values (URL is the
ISCV home page)
I've been an activist for 35 years, starting in the earliest periods of
the student movement.
Since 1973, I've been in Philadelphia, working primarily with groups at
the neighborhood level through the Institute for the Study of Civic
Values. These include civic associations, community development
organizations, and human service activists working with the poor. In the
70's, we built a neighborhoods' movement here. In the 80's, I was elected
to City Council at-large on a "neighborhood agenda," and subsequently
became director of Philadelphia's Office of Housing and Community
Development.
In 1992, I returned to ISCV full-time, in part to help neighborhood
activists learn how to use the Internet. Over the past two years, we've
established "Neighborhoods Online," a web site for ISCV, a national
"civic-values" email list, and a project in Philadelphia that's brought
more than 100 organizations onto LibertyNet in the past year. In
September, O'Reilly and Associates will publish "NetActivism: How Citizens
Use the Internet," that I've written to describe these efforts. The
"e-democracy" project is described in the book.
My interests here are national.
Ed Schwartz, Institute for the Study of Civic Values, 1218 Chestnut St.,
Rm. 702, Philadelphia, Pa. 19107 215-238-1434 edcivic@libertynet.org
The ISCV home page can be reached at
http://libertynet.org/~edcivic/iscvhome.html
Also check out "Neighborhoods Online" at
http://libertynet.org/community/phila/natl.html.
"Citizenship is the American ideal. There may be an army of actualities
opposed to that ideal, but there is no ideal opposed to that ideal."
--G.K. Chesterton
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From: LSieberg@aol.com
Subject: Intro:Lisa M. Sieberg, Washington State, LSieberg@aol.com
Lisa M. Sieberg, Washington State, Lisa M. Sieberg
No home page
Organizational affiliation: Washington State Republican Party, College
Republicans, International Association of Business Communicators
For the past year I have been working in the public relations field, and
will be returning to school soon to finish my degree. I am an active
republican, and am currently devoting my energy to the Dole/Kemp ticket
and to a republican gubenatorial candidate here in Washington State. I am
very interested in politics, possibly as a career, and would like to
explore how the internet can and will affect the political process in the
future. It may be that mailing lists such as this will be the driving
force behind politics on the internet. I am impressed and fascinated by
the diversity I have seen on this list through the introductions, and
excited to participate.
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From: cclash@web.net (Jocelyn J. Paquette Bob Ewing)
Subject: Bob Ewing, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada, cclash@web.net
Bob ewing Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada, I'm associated with the
Social Justice Action Group and the Thunder Bay Coalition Against Poverty
and am the local representative for the Dreamweavers project which aims to
put computers in the homes of low income families and to find funds or
ways to get them online. I am a co-facilitator of act.cuts.ont an
electronic conference created to organize the fightback against the
Ontario government's social policies.
Bob Ewing
http://www.izad.com/cultureclash
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From: Michael Carr <mcarr@erols.com>
Subject: Re: Welcome
Michael Carr, Northern Virginia, Washington, DC Metropolitan area,
mcarr@erols.com.
I am affiliated with the Arlington Young Democrats and the Arlington
Democratic Committee.
Electronic Democracy is very important to increasing awareness and
understanding of our democracy. I helped organize a training session on
web page development and the use of e-mail to organize groups of people to
action.
I am working on a door to door voter registration project. So far my
group has knocked on over 1200 doors and registered 25 people. We have
handed out over 100 voter registration applications.
The geographic area that I am interested in focusing my activities in is
Northern Virginia.
Mike Carr
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From: John Kares Smith <smith@oswego.Oswego.EDU>
Subject: Electronic Demo. Project
John Kares Smith, Ph.D. Professor of Communication Studies 3 Lanigan Hall
State University of New York Oswego, New York 13126 Office: [315]341-2357
Voicemail: [315]341-3519 Fax: [315]341-5658 E-mail:
smith@oswego.oswego.edu
My area of interest is presidential rhetoric, especially how the new
forms and genres of public discourse impact on both the form and the
substance of presidential and presidential-candidate discourse. I will
be giving a public lecture on this topic at SUNY-Oswego titled "Reach Out
and Elect Someone: Politics and Postmodernism" near the end of October.
I have been very active in college/university governance and have
presented my work on political discourse at national, regional and state
organizations of rhetorical and communication scholars.
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From: jillaine@benton.org (Jillaine Smith)
Subject: Intro: Jillaine Smith, DC, jillaine@benton.org
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Jillaine Smith, DC, jillaine@benton.org
www.igc.org/jillaine/
Benton Foundation
www.benton.org/
As senior associate at the Benton Foundation, I focus on best
practices of communications technology by nonprofits, with the aim
to document and model them for use by other nonprofits. I am
participating in this list, therefore, as an observer to see how
the process works, and lessons that can be learned from your
experiences. Before joining Benton in March 1996, I was Assistant
Director for seven years at the Institute for Global Communications,
home of the nonprofit internet services, PeaceNet, EcoNet,
ConflictNet, LaborNet and WomensNet.
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Jillaine Smith, Senior Associate Communications Policy Project
Benton Foundation jillaine@benton.org
1634 Eye Street NW #1200 http://www.benton.org
Washington DC 20006 v: 202/638-5770; f: 202/638-5771
"Democracy demands wisdom and vision in its citizens. It must
therefore foster and support a form of education and access to the
arts... designed to make people of all backgrounds and wherever
located masters of their technology and not its unthinking
servants."
- Declaration of Purpose, National Arts and Humanities Act
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From: TimLARA@aol.com
Subject: Intro: Tim Stevens, UK, timLARA@aol.com
No URL (whatever that might mean)
Affiliation: Active in motorcycle politics (voluntary) and countryside
access for recreation & sport with motors (paid), throughout UK but mainly
England & Wales. Scotland & Northern Ireland have very different laws, as
well as cultures. Interests: Motorcycling in its many forms, minorities
and how they ca ninfluence 'democratic' politics, effect of new
communications on political and thought processes, (without Gutenberg, no
Luther), typography (use and abuse of the apostrophe).
In the UK and EC motorcyclists have achieved political clout through being
active, getting noticed, and particularly from not being 'men in suits'. I
hope to develop this process using e-mail etc, but obviously if too many
others use 'our' methods it might weaken our effect. Or might it make
politicians more eager to listen to us all?
I hope this is useful
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From: Rick Blum <rblum@indiana.edu>
Subject: Introductions--Rick Blum, future high school government teacher
I am Rick Blum, and while I have not been politically active in the last
few years, I used to be an active participant in the political process
and seek to return to that activism.
I am also a future high school civics teacher and look to this list to
explore the many ways individuals communicate, organize and influence the
political process. In the past I've volunteered on campaigns for local
candidates in California and did some campus organizing for a boycott of
California table grapes. As a graduate student in Indiana, I've led a
less-political, cloistered life. I'm interested in broadening
participation levels, although I realize that's quite vague. More later
as the discussion gets rolling.
Rick Blum
rblum@indiana.edu
Bloomington, Indiana
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From: Kenneth C Tollenaar <kct@OREGON.UOREGON.EDU>
Subject: Ken Tollenaar, Oregon, kct@oregon.uoregon.edu
My interest in e-dem is simply to observe what you folks are up to. I'm a
retired public affairs researcher whose current interest is in improving
the initiative process, which has become a main driver of public policy
and public finance in this state.
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From: Bill Selmeier <bills@aimnet.com>
Subject: Intro: Bill Selmeier-San Jose CA-bills@aimnet.com
Name, Location, email: Bill Selmeier, San Jose CA, bills@aimnet.com
URL: There are several. Lets use http://www.uwsa.com/uwsa
Organizational Affilation: United We Stand Santa Clara County Chapter
(just
forming a company called RightNet)
My main interest is to empower more people through communications. I
setup and with the local UWSA Chapter sponsor 5 mail lists. In 1993 I
assisted in getting SV-PAL started out here. For $20/year (at that time)
we offered a shell menu access to the internet attracting over 3000
members by June 1994. "If you shopped in a supermarket, we wanted to put
you on the Internet!"
Several political objectives have been achieved or are being worked on by
the uwsa lists:
A member of the uwsa@shell.portal.com list led a campaign
known as "Ban Bribery Now!" that after a two year fight resulted
in passage of a bill to ban gifts to Congress Persons and their
staffs.
A member of the same list from the state of Washington became
alarmed at the abuses of power by Foley and with the help of
others on the list initiated "De-Foly-Ate" (DF8) which later
involved the NRA and other organizations to unelect a sitting
Speaker of the House of Representatives in 1994.
A Campaign Finance Reform list (cfr@uwsa.com) is used to achieve
passage of California Proposition 206 "Campaign Finance Reform"
coordinating the activities of UWSA, League of Woman Voters,
Common Cause and AARP. Although initially meant for the Calif.
activity, it now has a national membership.
A member of the local UWSA Chapter has funded the development
of UVote. UVote ( http://www.uvote.com ) is a WWW based forum
for Americans to define issues that need to be addressed and
possible solutions. The greatest benefit will be a place for
Americans to see the concensus of themselves. Of all the
interests in politics it is the citizens that are the least
organized and aware of their concensus.
I'll probably be a lurker here for a while.
Bill Selmeier
bills@aimnet.com
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From: "Karen A. Metivier Carreiro" <metivier@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu>
Subject: Intro: Karen A. Metivier Carreiro, VA & MA,
metivier@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu
Karen A/. Metivier Carreiro, VA & MA, metivier@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu
http://gwis2.circ.gwu.edu/~metivier
Organizational Affilation: Cyberspace Policy Institute
Org URL: http://www.cpi.seas.gwu.edu
My interest in electronic democracy is from both a social science and
activist perspective. My first work on political campaigns started at the
age of 8, handing out matchbooks with my father for a local city council
candidate in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Since 1978, I have been employed
by a variety of political campaigns, from local, state-wide (in
Massachusetts), and national campaigns. Although my political activities
are necessarily "curtailed" presently (I am a third year Public Policy
Ph.D. student -- with a dissertation topic weighing heavily on my mind), I
have done some ad hoc work for the Re-Elect Congressman Joe Moakley
Committee. Being a recent transplant to Virginia (12/94), I am quite
interested in both Massachusetts and Virginia electoral activities.
Incidently, I have been "on the Net" since May 1981 -- that's right...15+
years...my, how things have changed. :-)
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Karen A. Metivier Carreiro
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Public Policy Ph.D. Student | Research Associate
Science & Technology field | Cyberspace Policy Institute
The George Washington University | 2033 K St., N.W. Suite 340
| Washington, D.C. 20006
metivier@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu | 202-994-5515, 202-994-5505 fax
http://gwis2.circ.gwu.edu/~metivier | http://www.cpi.seas.gwu.edu
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From: Calvin Byrd <cbyrd@usit.net>
Subject: Intro: Calvin Byrd, Tennessee USA, Calvin Byrd <cbyrd@usit.net>
Interest: To see how the Internet, and related technologies, is used in
the upcoming US Presidential Elections. So much has been made of the
On-line technology in US Politics in the past year (CDA, wiretaps,
Privacy, etc) that the on-line issues may become an issue in various
congressional campaigns.
Television, especially younger voters tv ads, were instrumental in the
last Presidential campaing, I want to use this (and other lists) to keep
an eye on the electronic electorate.
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From: CWHITCOM@bentley.edu
Subject: Intro: Coralee Whitcomb, NE, coralee@vw.org
Coralee Whitcomb, Northeast, coralee@vw.org
Virtually Wired Educational Foundation
www.vw.org
I am the President of a nonprofit, public access center in Boston
dedicated to lowering all barriers to this technology. We are open six
days a week for walk-in traffic, provide scheduled classes, and develop
collaborative activities with other community groups. Our volunteers
number over 70 and we expect our second year of operations to really put
us on the map. We'd like to develop an organizational theme of electronic
citizenry so that our visitors are made aware of the power of this
technology as a democratic tool regardless of the reason behind their
visit. I'm hoping this list will give me some good tips on how best
present this theme.
coralee
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From: WwitchNC@aol.com
Subject: Intro: Crystal M. Litz, Charlotte, NC WwitchNC@aol.com
Crystal M. Litz, Charlotte, NC (currently), WwitchNC@aol.com
No home page
Organizations: Democratic Party of NC
I am a political campaign manager. I have worked in many states, but I
tend to prefer the South, and am currently working in NC, SC, and am doing
general consulting in a few other southern states. I have worked in
every level of political campaigns, from county commission to
Presidential, but I perfer and have come to feel that the most important
races I do are state legislative bodies, in trying to maintain or gain
Democratic majorities in one or both Houses. Although I work in the
South, I have friends that are consulting across the country, so I am
interested in political campaigns across the U.S. Between elections (and
during) I work with pro-choice groups and womens organizations to train
campaign staff and volunteers.
Crystal M. Litz
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From: Creed Pogue <cspogue@worldnet.att.net>
Subject: Intro: Creed Pogue, NJ, cspogue@worldnet.att.net
> Creed S. Pogue, NJ, cspogue@worldnet.att.net
Region II Director, Young Democrats of America
Since the Internet is a continually expanding venue for
communication, it is also becoming more and more used for political
purposes (what an understatement!) This forum will, hopefully, address
the issues that this creates but also discuss broader issues of election
administration and electoral systems. My interest is in elections across
the United States as well as internationally.
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From: Kevin Wolf <kjwolf@wheel.dcn.davis.ca.us>
Subject: introduction
Hi. My name is Kevin Wolf. I have been walking precincts as a
volunteer in different campaigns for 15 years. In recent years I have
been working to organize coalitions in both my local counties and in
other areas. I believe that we can use old fashion neighbor to neighbor
door knocking and phone calling with high tech data base development to
create a new type of electoral machine. I hope that this list will
advance the discussion on how to organize long-term and effective
election coalitions.
Kevin Wolf
Davis California
Environmental consultant specializing in mediation and organizing
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From: "William P. [Bill] Russell" <brussell@mail.coos.or.us>
Subject: Intro: William P. [Bill] Russell, Rural S.W. Oregon,
USA,brussell@mail.coos.or.us
William P. [Bill] Russell, Rural S.W. Oregon USA, brussell@mail.coos.or.us
www.coos.or.us/~brussell
President of City Council in Bandon, Oregon
> 50 - 75 words about:
> - Your interest in "electronic democracy".
Want to build a Community Network, "electronic democracy" may be a feature
that would attract some participants.
> - Important background or experiences.
Have taught Internet classes for 18 months at local Community College.
> - What projects or efforts you are currently involved with
> or interested in starting.
Seeking partners to start Community Network in small town.
Board member for "CyberLynx" an embryo organization targeted at 14-20 year
olds to provide opportunity for community service through
telecommunications. eg building a web site for the City. eg computer
literacy training at the Senior Center taught by high school students.
> - Please state the geographic area you are interested in
> focusing your activities on. For those from areas with
> upcoming elections we will compile a geographic contact
list
> to help members of the list from the same area become
aware
> of one another.
Working with Demo Party of Oregon developing web presence for state
legislature candidates.
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