Ok TIGer's, as the leader of Youth Media Exchange, hear my plea, my yelp, my cry of excitement and hope and SUBMIT YOUR BLOG ENTRY TO THE DEMOCRACY BLOG CONTEST ON YOUTH MEDIA EXCHANGE before US ELECTION DAY, NOV 4th!!

You've got nothing to lose and only a $100 Amazon.com gift certificate and 15 minutes (or a few weeks) of fame to gain!

In light of the upcoming elections in the United States, we have extended the deadline to November 4th 12pm GMT. And I am so curious to hear what you have to say. We have one submission so far from Nancy of Kenya, titled "Democracy is when the power of the vote is real" and she speaks her mind clearly, so if you'd like an example to go on, hers is a good one!

Democracy is the concept, and distilled down to it's most fundamental meaning, democracy means "of the people, by the people, for the people" so, speak up people! Let your voice be heard and exercise your right to speak out and say what you will.

Actually what Abe Lincoln was actually expressing with those words in his Gettysburg Address in 1863, was something very dramatic. He was asking the people to be certain that "government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth".

He didn't imagine at that time that young people around the world in 2008 would be writing short blog entries to express what "of the people, by the people, and for the people" means to them but I am sure he would be proud!

So, go to www.ymex.org for more details, but it's pretty simple, write your blog, submit it to ymex and tag it with "democracy" and you've entered the contest.

Onward, ho!!