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...want to see how cyberspace is shifting Australian politics, look no further than Don Dornan's lounge room. That's where earlier this year 16 strangers gathered after meeting on the Internet - not lonely hearts but would-be activists. Dornan lives in the New South Wales town of Narooma, a seaside holiday spot in one of Australia's bellwether marginal seats, Eden-Monaro. He's never been a party member; he just got sick of "complaining about politicians but not knowing how to do anything about it." So when a friend emailed him about online activist group GetUp...
...Graham Young, editor of e-journal On Line Opinion, says that while Australia's use of Internet politicking has grown, it remains well behind the U.S., where massive fundraising, "town hall" debates and even candidacy announcements take place online. Young, the Queensland Liberal Party's campaign chairman from 1995-97, says the Net's real heft is its ability to spread key messages cheaply and easily, with old media then reporting its doings. "It's like malaria," he says. "In the mosquito it does nothing, but once it's infected a human it can spread...
Julia I. Bertelsmann ’09, an economics concentrator and native of Cape Town, South Africa, said she was impressed by the discussion...
...Hailey's Chamber of Commerce, insists there is no grassroots pro-pot movement and expressed surprise that three of four pro-pot measures passed: legalizing medical marijuana and decriminalizing both marijuana itself and industrial hemp. (The only measure that failed asked for a straight-out legalization of marijuana.) A town of 8,500, Hailey is 12 miles from the Sun Valley ski area. When Spinelli worked Tuesday's election, he says he saw a lot of older affluent voters and young people from the service sector. In Idaho, being under the influence of pot in public draws a six-month...
Those Rocky Mountains are getting higher. Two municipalities - Denver, Colorado, and the small town of Hailey, Idaho - passed pro-marijuana measures on election day this week, joining a growing number of liberal localities that are reducing or removing penalties on using pot. It's part of a slowly evolving populist rehabilitation of the drug. San Francisco, Oakland and Santa Monica in California, along with Missoula, Montana, and Seattle, Washington, have previously passed laws that give the lowest priority to enforcing existing marijuana laws...