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Rebooting America | Personal Democracy Forum
An amazing array of new digital tools and platforms that have the potential to inform and empower us and let us self-organize in astonishing and effective ways.
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Inaugurate Change | WorldChanging
Dear President-Elect Obama, On January 20th, 2009, you will have the opportunity in your inaugural address to speak to the whole world at a moment of grave crisis.
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George Lakoff: The Obama Code | truthout
Behind the Obama Code are seven crucial intellectual moves that I believe are historically, practically, and cognitively appropriate, as well as politically astute.
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You Street
You Street is about getting big money out of our political process so that our elected officials can represent the only special interest that matters: America.
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Notebook 2009: The Summer of Our Climate Politics
The science of greenhouse gases dominated climate debates for many years. More and more, climate will become a social phenomenon as well.
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David Johns: Conservation-Compatible Societies
Conservation is as much a political endeavor as a scientific one. Research will continue to be vital, but it will never be enough. Scientific findings and conservation values become policy through organizing and action.
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Anthony Giddens: Climate Change Politics
We've got to find a way back to the politics of the long term. Planning was not effective in Soviet-style situations and went out of vogue. But you can't have a 20-30 year perspective on politics without planning in some sense.
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Benjamin Barber: Functions of Political Talk
The functions of talk in the democratic process fall into at least nine major categories. The first two are familiar to liberals and encompass most of what they understand as the functions of talk. The next six are muted and undervalued in liberal theory.
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