• Charter 88 was a British pressure group that advocated constitutional and electoral reform and owes its origins to the lack of a written constitution....
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    In 1984, Charter 77 received the first Andrei Sakharov Freedom Award. Charter 88 – a British movement inspired in part by Charter 77 Charter 97 – a Belarusian...
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  • Essex. Weir was a founder of the constitutional reform pressure group Charter 88, and was editor of the weekly political magazine the New Statesman from...
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    organisation the New Politics Network in 2001 and later becoming director of Charter 88. He was responsible for the merger of the two organisations in 2007. Being...
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  • founded as the successor to Democratic Left in 1999, and merged with Charter 88 to form Unlock Democracy in 2007. The NPN was established in December...
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  • The SR 88 (Singapore Rifle 88) is an assault rifle designed and manufactured in Singapore by Chartered Industries of Singapore (CIS, now ST Kinetics)...
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  • Political cause groups – aim to achieve certain political objectives, e.g. Charter 88, now Unlock Democracy, clearly has a political objective. The Chartists...
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  • to act as an umbrella group including staff and officers of Liberty, Charter 88 (now Unlock Democracy), Privacy International, the Foundation for Information...
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  • Hilder. First publication began in May 2001. Founder Anthony Barnett, Charter 88 organiser and political campaigner, was the first editor (2001–2005) and...
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  • without noticeable support from larger parties. Some groups, such as Charter 88, have argued that a codified, written constitution with appropriate checks...
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    any other Labour Peer, having a dissent rate of 33.3%. She was Chair of Charter 88 (1992–1997) and is closely affiliated to the educational charity Common...
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    Stuart Weir (1987–90), under whose editorship the Statesman founded the Charter 88 constitutional reform pressure group; and Steve Platt (1990–96). The Statesman...
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  • co-option by the British establishment. He was the first Director of Charter 88, from 1988 to 1995, and Co-Director of the Convention on Modern Liberty...
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    London in political administration in the evenings. In 1997 she joined Charter 88, a political campaigning group who worked on the House of Lords Reform...
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  • Broadcasting Freedom Campaign to Bring Back British Rail Celtic League Charter 88 (merged with the New Politics Network to form Unlock Democracy in 2007)...
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    Breitung Charter Township is a charter township of Dickinson County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2020 census, the township population was...
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    Rights, and worked on behalf of the Prince's Trust, the Birmingham Six and Charter 88. Scarman was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1983. In...
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  • London editor of Vanity Fair, and Anthony Barnett, a founding member of Charter 88. It was sponsored by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, openDemocracy, Liberty...
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    other officials would swear oaths to the Constitution, not the Crown. Charter 88 Common Sense (book) Commonwealth of Europe Bill Commonwealth Constitution...
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    relevant the 1988 charter was to Hamas' policies. In 1987–88, during the initial phase of the First Intifada, the 1988 Hamas Charter was written by one...
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    Dangerous World (Chatto & Windus, 1989) Imagining a Democratic Culture (Charter 88, 1991) Indigo (Chatto & Windus, 1992) L'Atalante (British Film Institute...
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    Balance Between Government and Parliament by Stuart Weir, Tony Wright (Charter 88, 1996) ISBN 1-873311-36-2 Values, Visions and Voices edited with Gordon...
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    been a Council Member of Charter 88, the democratic reform NGO, as well as an Executive Supporter and Signatory for Charter 99, described as "an initiative...
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  • actions to defend their interests. Charter 88, a liberal pressure group which took its name from the Czech Charter 77 and advocated institutional reforms...
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    88 m (289 ft), similar in size to the Athena and Eos. The vessel dropped its BVI flag in 2008 and was purchased by Pleon Ltd, which put it to charter...
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    Charter schools in the United States are primary or secondary education institutions which receive government funding but operate with a degree of autonomy...
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  • Society and the Socialist Conference in the mid-1980s, a member of the Charter 88 team, and a contributor to Tribune, the New Statesman, Liber, Red Pepper...
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  • Destruction Awareness Programme, of which Bloomfield was a spokesperson. Charter 88 signatory and a Fellow of the British-American Project Joined Green Party...
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    Sherrod Brown (redirect from Desk 88)
    on Fox News and The Wall Street Journal. In 2015, Brown introduced the Charter School Accountability Act of 2015. The bill did not make it out of committee...
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