Crowdfunding means a more democratic distribution of capital at the local level, rather than funneling capital through Wall Street to enrich themselves and play with.
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It's the name of a CD series that showcases bands in Kinshasa, the capital of The Democratic Republic of the Congo.
But Democratic leaders in Springfield, the capital, stalled, and the result was that the governor's appointee, Roland Burris (apparently a blameless candidate), has become Illinois's new junior senator.
An outgoing chairman of the National Venture Capital Association and a Democratic campaign donor, Ms. Mitchell accepted an invitation to join a panel discussion at the Treasury Department in March 2011.
The United Nations has named the Democratic Republic of Congo the "rape capital of the world, " with 15, 000 women raped in eastern Congo last year.
The two were in the Missouri state capital to attend a memorial service for Democratic Gov. Mel Carnahan, who was killed earlier this week in a small plane crash.
This could be considered the crescendo of a week where a renewed and reinvigorated Democratic Party paraded out its best and brightest display of political capital, and where the Party faithful liked what they saw.
The Kurds, they say, are even attempting to frighten them into fleeing east into areas more firmly controlled by the Kurdish Democratic Party (KDP) from its headquarters in Erbil, capital of the Kurdistan Regional Government.
This year, Democrats -- just 11 seats shy of majority party status in the 106th Congress -- are eyeing two more Republican seats: the politically competitive 1st District in the southeast and the Democratic-leaning 2nd, which includes Madison, the state capital.
The caucus is "very concerned" that violence not sweep through the capital of Port-au-Prince and that the democratic process "is not further compromised, " he said.
But the reluctance allowed his Republican rivals and Democratic critics to focus on his record at private equity firm Bain capital, painting him as a wealthy businessman who cut jobs and shut down firms.
He also narrowly won Virginia, home to the capital of the old Confederacy, and a state that has not voted Democratic in a presidential election since 1964.
In Mali's capital, Bamako, the coup puts the brakes on a blooming reputation for democratic rule.
The founder of Farallon Capital Management, Steyer, 55, had long been a high-giving Democratic donor and philanthropist who kept an exceedingly low profile, as my colleague Kerry Dolan wrote last year.
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In fact, cuts to programs like public TV and the Jobs Corps may even hurt AHRQ, since a Democratic Senate (if it remains that way) would be more likely to spend political capital on a compromise that saves higher-profile funding victims.
Mr Nasheed, the country's first democratic president, claims he was forced to quit under duress after soldiers and police mutinied in the capital.
The BBC's James Copnall, in the Ethiopian capital, says there is a general recognition that Mali will not become peaceful again without a democratic transformation, but that for the moment the focus is firmly on finding the money needed by the military force.
The city-state's ruling Social Democrats, who also run Germany as a whole, and the Democratic Socialists, as the ex-communists now call themselves, are deep into negotiations to run the capital together, after the breakdown of the Social Democrats' talks with both the Greens and the Free Democrats, Germany's liberals.
About 40 policemen took Mr. Nasheed into custody outside his home in the capital city of Male, said Ameen Fasal, a member of the former president's Maldivian Democratic Party who was with him at the time of the arrest.
And so, I think people here do not want to see gridlock in the U.S. capital, and they'll be looking for very concrete ideas and plans to come out of the Democratic Party.
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