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"Mark's [work] is refreshingly short
on [rhetoric] and long on real ideas, programs and organizations
you can support." originally 2004; last updated February 2016 100 Great Radical
Centrist A.
WELCOME FROM EDITOR MARK SATIN Welcome
to our Great Radical Middle Political Organizations page!
If you’re ever depressed about the state of the world, just scroll
through these sites and I guarantee things will seem brighter. “Radical
middle" aka "radical centrist" organizations are modest enough
to learn from all political perspectives – and bold enough to pursue genuine
solutions to the most fundamental problems we face. A
more through definition can be found in my book Radical
Middle: The Politics We Need Now (Basic Books, 2004). We have
confined ourselves here to 10 organizations each in 10 issue areas.
All are indeed “great” in one way or another.
Most were discussed or mentioned in my Washington, DC-based national
political newsletters New Options (1983 – 1992) and Radical
Middle (1999 – 2009). Others
have been added since 2009. Each organization is linked to its official website. I hope you will not only enjoy reading about them, but seek to get involved in some of them. – M.S.
B.
ONE HUNDRED GREAT ONES 1. DIALOGUE AND
PROCESS Center
for Nonviolent Communication Listening
Project:
Community Listening, Empowerment & Change National
Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation Viewpoint
Learning:
Insight Through Dialogue World Café:
Shaping Our Future Through Conversations That Matter 2. GOVERNMENT AND
GOVERNANCE Committee for a
Responsible Federal Budget Deliberative
Democracy Consortium FairVote:
For a More Perfect Union Government
Accountability Project Greenleaf Center for
Servant Leadership Institute
for Culrural Evolution 3. ENERGY AND
ENVIRONMENT National
Trust for Historic Preservation Natural Resources Defense
Council People for the Ethical
Treatment of Animals 4. BUSINESS AND
ECONOMICS Ceres:
Mobilizing Business Leadership for a Sustainable World CORE
Coalition:
Putting People & the Planet at the Core of Business Democracy
Collaborative:
Building Community wealth Ethical Markets:
Your Gateway to Cleaner, Greener 21st Century Economies US/SIF: The
Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Investing Future 500:
Finding Common Ground Between Uncommon Allies National Center for
Employee Ownership Robert Schalkenbach
Foundation:
Publisher of Henry George, Advocate for Economic Justice Society for
Organizational Learning North America U.S. Basic Income
Guarantee Network 5.
EDUCATION AND YOUTH Coalition of
Essential Schools Harlem
Children’s Zone: A National Model for
Breaking the Cycle of Poverty National
Association for Gifted Children National
Council on Teacher Quality PassageWorks:
Engaged Teaching and Learning 6. HEALTH AND HEALTH
CARE Alliance
for Biking and Walking Association for Humanistic
Psychology Center for Science in the
Public Interest Consumer Federation of
America Physicians for a National
Health Program 7.
SOCIETY AND FUURES Alternative
Futures Associates, formerly Institute for
Alternative Futures Center
for Neighborhood Technology Cutting Edge Law:
The Integrative Law Movement International
Network on Therapeutic Jurisprudence National
Economic & Social Rights Initiative Society
for the Advancement of Socio-Economics 8.
PEACE AND WORLD ORDER Albert
Einstein Institution: Advancing Freedom
Through Nonviolent Action Citizens for Global
Solutions,
formerly World Federalists Peace Action,
formerly SANE-Freeze Project
on Defense Alternatives United
Nations Association of the USA 9.
GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT Acumen:
Changing the Way the World Tackles Poverty Ashoka:
Innovators for the Public Development Group for
Alternative Policies Landesa:
Rural Development Institute Population
Connection,
formerly Zero Population Growth 10. MOVEMENT STRATEGY
AND ORGANIZING Bridge
Alliance: A Transpartisan Community Center for a New
American Dream Green America:
Growing the Green Economy NetAge:
Virtual Teams, Networks, and Collaboration Shift Network:
Accelerating the Next Evolution BONUS
SECTION #1: 10 PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS THAT MERIT YOUR INVOLVEMENT American Association for
the Advancement of Science American
Association for Marriage and Family Therapy American
Planning Association: Making Great Communities
Happen American
Political Science Association American Public Health
Association American Wind Energy
Association Business Alliance for
Local Living Economies Section
of Dispute Resolution of the American Bar
Association Society
for Humanistic Psychology of the American Psychological
Association World History
Association
of the American Historical Association BONUS
SECTION #2: 15 GREAT RADICAL
CENTRIST THINK TANKS The
people listed below are among the principal founders of or actors in these
research institutes. Breakthtough
Institute
– Ted Nordhaus & Michael Shellenberger Center
for Global Development – Nancy Birdsall Centre
Forum (Britain) – Paul Marshall Communitarian
Network
– Amitai Etzioni Creative Class Group
– Richard Florida Demos
(Britain) – Claudia Wood Institute
for the Emerging Wisdom Culture – Paul
Ray Kroc Institute for
International Peace Stiudies – David Cortright & John Paul
Lederach New America
Foundation
– Michael Lind & Anne-Marie Slaughter Program on
Negotiation
– Robert Mnookin & William Ury Progressive
Policy Institute
– Will Marshall Rocky
Mountain Institute – Amory Lovins &
Hunter Lovins Rodale Institute
– Robert Rodale Tellus
Institute – Paul Raskin World
Academy of Art and Science – Walter Truett
Anderson C.
STILL NOT SATISFIED? See our
page on Great Radical Centrist Political Blogs. See
Appendix C in the “40th Anniversary Edition” of my book New
Age Politics (Lorian Press, 2015). It
lists “100 New Age-relevant Political Organizations,” some of them more
counter-cultural or militant than
those listed here. (I think of
radical middle politics as occupying one end of the transformational political
spectrum, and New Age politics as occupying the other.) |
ABOUT THE RADICAL MIDDLE CONCEPT 50 Thinkers and Activists DESCRIBE the Radical Middle 50 Best Radical Middle BOOKS of the '00s GREAT RADICAL MIDDLE GROUPS AND BLOGS: 100 Great Radical Centrist GROUPS and Organizations 25 Great Radical Centrist BLOGS SOME PRIOR RADICAL MIDDLE INITIATIVES: Generational Equity and Communitarian platforms 1990s First U.S. Green Party gatherings, 1987 - 1990 Green Party's "Ten Key Values" statement, 1984 New World Alliance, 1979 - 1983 PDF of the Alliance's "Transformation Platform," 1981 SOME RADICAL MIDDLE LESSONS: What the Draft Resistance Movement Taught Me What the Civil Rights Movement Taught Me SOME PRIOR WRITINGS BY MARK SATIN: New Options Newsletter, 1984-1992 (includes back issue PDFs!) New Age Politics: Healing Self and Society, 1976, 1978 (includes 1976 text PDF!) OTHER 50 Best "Third Way" Books of the 1990s 25 Best "Transformational" Books of the 1980s 25 Best "New Age Politics" Books of the 1970s NOT JUST RADICAL MIDDLE: 50 Current Political IDEOLOGIES 50 Current Political MANIFESTOS
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