Google Video makes sharing independent videos from OBS (Online Broadcasting Service) easy

Google Video now provides a free service that greatly facilitates the rapid and low-cost distribution of independent video content. Their service provides a means by which independent producers, such as Etopia New & Pictures can easily create an "indienet" for the distribution of their content. This page is the fifth in a series of compilations of such videos by the OBS (Online Broadcasting Service) in which it uses the Google Video platform to make its content available worldwide.

This collection of ten videos focuses on material dealing with politics in California, which is regularly covered by Etopia News on the California Politics Today web site.

These interviews include coverage of Proposition 82 ("Preschool for All"); the long-running saga of stem cell funding authorized by the passage of Proposition 71; the possibilities involved in using advanced Internet technology to transform voting, the initiative process, political campaigns, and governance in the State of California; and the effort to pass "Clean Money/Clean Elections" reform legislation in the nation's most populous state.

Click on the controls of any of these Google-hosted embedded videos to watch and listen to them from wherever you access the Internet.

A fourth clip of this type, entitled "Marc Strassman outlines cyber-democracy plan in 2002 LA secession campaign," cannot be embedded on this page due to considerations involving intellectual property rights, but it can be viewed on the Google Video site by clicking here.

bonus link: 1996 Etopia Election vision realized in 2005 in Estonia

To read about and listen to a February 27, 2006, interview with Tarvi Martens, the project manager for the e-voting project which has allowed the Republic of Estonia to become, in the autumn of 2005, the first country in the world to successfully carry out a national election that allowed citizens to vote remotely over the Internet, in a secure and convenient way, using almost exactly the same kind of remote Internet voting system first proposed by this reporter in 1996, click here.

"Clean Money/Clean Elections" in California

California Clean Money Campaign tries to put the "demos" back in "democracy"

An "Open Video Letter" in support of SB 583 to California legislators

Marc Strassman, executive editor, Online Broadcast Service (OBS)

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