http://bit.ly/oEAZ4e Party and Politics *

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PARTY-POLITICS*

• Jede Party ist politisch, auch ohne Transparente und Flugblätter.

• Politisch ist der Umgang der Leute miteinander: Gemeinschaftlich oder sind alle auf einem Ego-Trip?

• Politisch ist es, wenn alle ehrfürchtig zum DJ hinauf blicken und ihn bejubeln, was immer er auch macht.

• Politisch ist, ob es bei einer Party um die Community geht oder nur um Profit.

• Politisch ist auch das Verhältnis zur Natur bei einem Open-Air: Bleiben Müllberge zurück?

• Politisch sind Partys auf denen in Straßen, Supermärkten und Konzernzentralen für Veränderung getanzt wird.

• Und politisch sind Partys, die sich bewusst Kommerz, Konsum und Kontrolle widersetzen, um dadurch zu einem wirklichen Freiraum zu werden...


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PARTY-POLITICS*

• Every party is political. There needn’t be a banner hanging with a political demand anywhere.

• So, for example, the question of who makes money out of a party is political. Is it a single person that thrives on inflated admission charges? Or is it a group of people that are mainly concerned with a good party?

• Political is the handling of nature at an Open-Air event. Does one strive to use the place sensibly or are there piles of rubbish left behind?

• Political is how people interact with each other at a party. Is it collaborative or an Ego-trip?

• Of course a consciously organized party that becomes a free space and defies the guidelines of commerce and consumption and control is also political.

• Political is as well how drugs are handled on a party.

• For example it is also political if all reverentially look up to the DJ and acclaim whatever he may do.

• Political is more than the question whether a track has political lyrics. Policy is also more than the talk of ministers. Policy is the relationship between us. Policy is our daily action ...


Wolfgang Sterneck
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Former US Senator Charles Percy, who died Saturday, played a key role in starting the 35-year tradition of the Monitor-hosted breakfasts for reporters.
Former US Senator Charles Percy had a long and accomplished career in business and public service. Mr. Percy, who died Saturday, also played a key role in starting the 45-year tradition of the Monitor-hosted breakfasts for reporters.
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Shortly after he was elected to the Senate from Illinois in November 1965, Mr. Percy had dinner with the Monitor’s then assistant Washington bureau chief, Godfrey Sperling, Jr. It was at that dinner, the nascent idea of the Monitor breakfast was born.
"Chuck" Percy told "Budge" Sperling he would be interested in meeting with Washington reporters who had covered his Senate campaign. So Mr. Sperling arranged a lunch for 10 reporters in the President’s Room of the National Press Club around the corner from the White House on February 8, 1966.

The Monitor gatherings have continued ever since.
Percy and Sperling first met when Sperling was assigned to the paper’s Chicago bureau and wrote a story, “Mr. Percy Goes to Washington,” about Percy’s role advising President Dwight Eisenhower on trade issues.
Percy became nationally known before his political career when he was named president of Bell & Howell Company at age 29 and oversaw its rapid growth.
In an interview Monday, Sperling recalled that Percy “made all kinds of news” at the lunch. At the time, Percy was “one of the hottest prospects anywhere for president,” Sperling said, and “made headlines talking about his aspirations to be president.”
Sperling’s newspaper colleagues found the event useful and suggested he hold more gatherings where reporters could talk to important public figures in a relaxed setting. "I didn't know what I had," Sperling said.
The next session was in June 1967 and featured Idaho Gov. Robert Smylie, then chairman of the Republican Governor’s Association. The Press Club did not have a room available for lunch, so the session with Smylie was a breakfast and reporters ended up liking that time slot better. Most of the Monitor-hosted gatherings since then – more than 3,700 hundred of them – have been breakfasts.
Percy was the guest at the fifth breakfast on May 17, 1967, and continued to be a frequent visitor through his years in the Senate, speaking at 14 gatherings in all. After Percy lost a reelection bid in 1984, he and Sperling stayed in touch, sharing in their Illinois roots, the Christian Science religion, and a keen interest in politics.






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