Hello! I love meeting new people, discussing different viewpoints and learning new things. Coffee, philosophy and travel invigorates me. Whether it's history, economics, politics, English lit, art, music, biology, whatever -- I'm an open book! Other hobbies include: Finding Balance, Reading, Writing, Coffee Shops, Movies, Travel, Debate, History, Politics, Saving the Environment, Adventure, Insight.
Check out the philosophical roots of vote sizing in these videos narrated by founder Steve Glickman.
Music
Bob Marley, Bedouin Soundclash, KRS-One, Public Enemy, Rage Against The Machine, The Clash, Anti-flag, Pink Floyd, Bajaki Gospel Group, John Lennon
God Grew Tired of Us: The Story of Lost Boys of Sudan, An Unreasonable Man (Ralph Nader documentary),The Grapes of Wrath, Born in Brothels, America's War on Poverty
Television
Come visit Africa for a moment. Julius Awafong, leader of the Fair Choice Party, shows us some of the situation -- from foraging for clean water and cooking in clay pots to riots in the streets from unfair fuel and food prices. He feels vote sizing can greatly change the situation there. What do you think?
Votesizing has found a stronghold in South America -- more specifically, Colombia -- where the people have grown unhappy with the level of government corruption. Watch this video to hear more about votesizing's effort to empower Latinos so their votes count:
Books
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Heroes
The Democratic Empowerment Party is headquartered in Vancouver, with a branch of the party in Cameroon, Africa.
President Steve Glickman founded the party in order to promote vote sizing, a radical reform of the voting system that gives poor, working and middle class people larger votes. Vote sizing respects the wisdom of ordinary people and believes they are the ones who best know how to root out corruption in government. We are working to establish chapters of the DEP all over the world to elect candidates who support weighting votes inversely to income, with the goal of restoring balance between power and wealth.
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Roxy VoteSizer is down with Democracy. Posted at 3:13 AM Mar 13, 2008 view more
This is the story of a Canadian philosopher, a Cameroonian writing coach, an American writer and a Colombian administrator working to elevate the voices of the politically disenfranchised around the world. This story has only just begun, and if you like, you can help write the next chapter.
No doubt you’ve heard of efforts to politically empower people before. But Steve G, Julius A and Doug B go further than most. These reformers believe that poor, working and middle class people should have larger votes. And they’re working in some of the most dangerous parts of the world to spread the vote sizing message in a NON-VIOLENT way...
Who I'd like to meet: People in the middle class, people in the working class, people experiencing poverty, people who feel disenfranchised, the optimistic, dreamers, visionaries, philosophers, everyone with a desire to reform the current voting system!
I recorded the above video of me reciting my poem "The World Is Planned" at this year's May Day demo in Manchester. It's not the most tuneful of my musical poetry, but stick with it - the lyrics are important!
You may also like to read a short document I wrote on Towards a Theory of Everything which is my attempt to unify quantum mechanics and relativity theory by taking free will decisions into account! I'm not a physics expert but my knowledge of artificial intelligence and politics (including Marxism which is incompatible with free will) helped me come to some important conclusions about how the world and minds work!
