Re: [WDDM] Hi.

["Jiri Polak" <jiri.polak(at)swipnet.se>]

Hello Ted!
Thank you for interesting information! I hope you will inform me about the
coming conference in Spain, so that I will be able to include it in the
September issue. I believe development towards DD is proceeding
satisfactorily.
With my best regards                   Jiri
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ted Becker" <becketl(at)auburn.edu>
To: <wddm@world-wide-democracy.net>
Sent: Monday, April 16, 2007 7:39 PM
Subject: [WDDM] Hi.


> Hi Jiri:
>
> Well thanks for the plug on my chart in TFOT......too bad no one in the
> movement of delib dem pays the least bit of attention to it.  I'm also
> pleased to see you run the homepage of JPD.....I'm hoping for a major
> update this week or next....
>
> The new lead article in JPD's public page will be on a new movement of
> secession from the US by the state of Vermont.  Very interesting way to
> secede....no terrorists.....no firing on American military
> bases.....just a series of New England Town Meetings to create a
> critical mass and force the state legislature to put it on the ballot
> for a referendum.  Then they become the "Republic of Vermont."  Is the
> US Army going to invade?  Interesting, no?
>
> I'm invited by...are you ready for this....The Basque Parliament and
> Mondragon University to be the "historian" of "E-democracy" at a
> conference they're giving on ... July 4th....how appropriate!  I intend
> to tell them about the Vermont method.  It sure beats the ETA method.
>
> By the way, I agree with that little paragraph at the end of your
> newsletter about the WDDM charter.  So much chatter.  So little matter.
>
> Ted.