Former Governor-turned-Attorney General Jerry Brown provided the appropriate frame for the initiative, casting it in ballot language as taking away a right.
Nevertheless, remembering older initiatives casts enduring issues about the direction of technological development in society in a different and informative light: an issue relevant today in debates as varied as industrial policy, green and solidarity economies, commons-based peer-production, and grassroots fabrication in Hackerspaces and FabLabs.
Heads of the major channels including BBC1, ITV and Channel 4 will attend a session, called Minority Report: Is TV Racist?, on the business case for diversity in the television industry, with ABC executive vice president, casting, Keli Lee, talking about her successful initiative of casting actors from diverse backgrounds in mainstream programming such as CSI and Grey's Anatomy.
"We must become accustomed to greater openness about what goes on in politics," he said, adding that he would not rule out further initiatives to cast more light on the inner workings of policy-making.
In her first address from the floor of the United States Senate, Hillary Rodham Clinton offered an agenda of health care initiatives today, casting herself as a moderate on the very issue that resulted in one of her most embarrassing defeats as first lady.
The Zimbabwe initiative is being cast as supportive of the South African-led SADC mediation.
The American initiative will be cast by the White House as a small but significant step toward allowing the world to measure whether President Obama makes good on his promise of reducing American reliance on nuclear defenses.
To enable this, the entrepreneurial initiative must be cast further to include disciplines beyond the natural and engineering sciences; it must also involve social and cultural sciences.
Critics may cast this initiative as an example of government overreach.
The Local Coordination Committees, an opposition group that helps organize and document protests, welcomed the initiative, even as it cast doubt on the government's willingness to carry it out.
A bold branding initiative is trying to cast them as the Three Brexiteers, but you'll probably be less disappointed if you see them as Aramis, Werritys and Takethepiss.
