 AC logo and motto The Civic Alliance Foundation (Romanian: Alianţa Civică, AC) is a Romanian non-governmental organization (NGO). It is the largest Romanian NGO, working for the consolidation of a civil society in the aftermath of the 40-year long communist regime. The AC has subsidiaries in 36 of the 41 counties, overseen by a 27-member National Council. Its motto is Nu putem reuşi decât împreună ("Only together can we succeed"). A non-governmental organization (NGO) is a non-profit group or association that acts outside of institutionalized political structures and pursues matters of interest to its members by lobbying, persuasion, or direct action. ...
Civil society or civil institutions refers to the totality of voluntary civic and social organizations or institutions which form the basis of a functioning society as opposed to the force backed structures of a state (regardless of that states political system). ...
The Soviets pressed for inclusion of Romanias heretofore negligible Communist Party in the post-war government, while non-communist political leaders were steadily eliminated from political life. ...
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History
Founded on November 6, 1990, when a group of 216 founding members (Romanian intellectuals from all fields of public life) signed a project-statement, it was oficially registered on November 29 of the same year. During the early 1990s, the association was involved in protests against the ruling National Salvation Front, including the Golaniad public gathering that were crushed by the June 1990 Mineriad. In July 1991, a sizeable portion of its members, led by Nicolae Manolescu, split with the AC over participation in national elections, and founded the Civic Alliance Party. November 6 is the 310th day of the year (311th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 55 days remaining. ...
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An intellectual is a person who uses his or her intellect to study, reflect, speculate on, or ask and answer questions with regard to a variety of different ideas. ...
November 29 is the 333rd (in leap years the 334th) day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ...
The 1990s decade refers to the years from 1990 to 1999, inclusive. ...
The National Salvation Front (in Romanian, Frontul Salvării Naţionale, FSN) was the governing body of Romania in the first weeks after the Romanian Revolution of 1989, subsequently turned into a political party. ...
An anti-communist rally in the University Square of Bucharest, 1990 The Golaniad (Romanian: Golaniada) was a protest in Romania in the University Square, Bucharest. ...
1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Nicolae Manolescu (born November 27, 1939) is a Romanian literary critic. ...
Principles Acoording to its statute, the main goals of the Civic Alliance Foundation are as follows: - working for the establishment of a civil society and the rule of law in Romania
- defending human rights and fundamental freedoms
- defending individual rights and the creation of a climate of tolerance among citizens
- promoting democratic values and institutions, and consolidating real democracy in Romania
- defending civic and individual interests regardless of ethnic origin, language, religion etc.
- organizing civic education programs
- regaining historical truth, moral values, and awareness that have been affected through imposing totalitarian communist rule
- promoting awareness, respect, and dissemination of truth in public life, through combatting all forms of violence and deception, through promotion of tolerance and dialogue within the association as well as within the social and political life of the country at large
- promoting real values, eliminating corruption and incompetence from economical, social, and political life
- supporting the continuation of economic, social, and administrative reforms
- involvment in the process of informing about Romania's Euro-Atlantic integration
- creating and maintaining natural links between the Romanian diaspora and country
- developing relations with Romanians outside Romania's borders, and with the Romanian diaspora, in supporting their actions to maintain their national identity
- offering support to underprivileged social categories
The rule of law implies that governmental authority is legitimately exercised only in accordance with established laws. ...
Human rights are rights which some hold to be inalienable and belonging to all humans. ...
A fundamental right is often referred to the rights a person has according to the constitution. ...
Democracy, literally, rule by the people (from the Greek demos, people, and kratos, rule). This can be contrasted with oligarchy and autocracy, rule by a few people or a single person. ...
Civics is the science of comparative government and means of administering public trusts - the theory of governance as applied to state institutions. ...
Totalitarianism is a typology employed by political scientists, especially those in the field of comparative politics, to describe modern regimes in which the state regulates nearly every aspect of public and private behavior. ...
The European Union (EU) is an intergovernmental and supranational union of 25 democratic member states from the European continent. ...
NATO 2002 Summit in Prague The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, the Atlantic Alliance or the Western Alliance, is an international organisation for collective security established in 1949, in support of the North Atlantic Treaty signed in Washington, DC, on 4 April 1949. ...
European integration is the process of political and economic (and in some cases social and cultural) integration of European states into a tighter bloc. ...
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Members (includes former members) Ana Blandiana (born Otilia Valeria Coman, b. ...
Victor Ciorbea (born on October 26, 1954, in Ponor, Alba county, Romania) was the Prime Minister of Romania from December 1996 to April 1998. ...
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