{"id":5162,"date":"2010-05-25T02:03:50","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T09:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=5162"},"modified":"2012-09-05T05:53:28","modified_gmt":"2012-09-05T12:53:28","slug":"democracy-video-challenge-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=5162","title":{"rendered":"Democracy Video Challenge 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is democracy? If nothing else, it\u2019s a question that can inspire many hours of ideas and conversation, and even a video competition. Democracy Video Challenge 2010 is a global video competition sponsored by the U.S. Department of State that asks people worldwide to share their thoughts on democracy by completing the phrase, \u201cDemocracy is\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Several Israelis stepped up to the challenge and created videos expressing their views on democracy. One of these entries, \u201cDemocracy is Freedom of Speech,\u201d has made it to the finals \u2013 check it out:<br \/>\n<object width=\"500\" height=\"405\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/OqBWkba9wnU&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x234900&amp;color2=0x4e9e00&amp;border=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"500\" height=\"405\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/OqBWkba9wnU&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x234900&amp;color2=0x4e9e00&amp;border=1\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>The Israeli video is one of 18 entries chosen to advance to the final stage of the competition, along with videos from: Burundi, Ethiopia, South Africa, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Azerbaijan, Poland, Spain, Algeria, Iran, Nepal, Pakistan, Colombia and the United States. Six winners, one from each geographic region of the world, will receive an all-expense-paid trip to Los Angeles, New York and Washington, DC in September.<\/p>\n<p>How the winner be selected? By the very democratic process of online votes! Anyone can enter the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/democracychallenge\" target=\"_blank\">Democracy Video Challenge site<\/a> and vote for their favorite videos until midnight GMT on June 15, 2010. Want to express your own ideas on democracy? Create your own video for next year\u2019s competition, and in the meantime \u2013 VOTE!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is democracy? If nothing else, it\u2019s a question that can inspire many hours of ideas and conversation, and even a video competition. Democracy Video Challenge 2010 is a global video competition sponsored by the U.S. Department of State that asks people worldwide to share their thoughts on democracy by completing the phrase, \u201cDemocracy is\u2026.\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}