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Issue No. 74-a (August 15, 2005) -- Mark Satin, Editor
Katrina's two-part message
. . . a 100-word editorial
Here is an e-mail we received last year from Ms. Yvonne Hamm of Metairie, Louisiana, just outside New Orleans. Pay special attention to the P.S.:
You liberal Godless sh--heads are poisoning the minds of the people that are
stupid enough to pay attention to the worthless folks that you are. I feel
sorry for you and those like you. You make me sick!!
P.S. Please stick your baseless environmental issues and shove them up your a--. Rush Limbaugh has your kind pegged.
Hopefully even Ms. Hamm would now acknowledge that part of Katrina's message is "liberal": the environment must be a paramount concern. Global warming is real, and so is the need for environmentally appropriate infrastructure.
The other part of Katrina's message is "conservative," though. We desperately need to reinvent government at all levels so it's more flexible and imaginative and efficient, even if that means constraining the power of the public employee unions (biggest stumbling block to the federal "reinventing government" initiatives of the 1990s).
Can we broaden ourselves enough to absorb both parts of that message?
ABOUT THE RADICAL MIDDLE CONCEPT
50 Thinkers and Activists DESCRIBE the Radical Middle
50 Best Radical Middle BOOKS of the '00s
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100 Great Radical Centrist GROUPS and Organizations
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Generational Equity and Communitarian platforms 1990s
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Green Party's "Ten Key Values" statement, 1984
New World Alliance, 1979 - 1983
PDF of the Alliance's "Transformation Platform," 1981
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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!)
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PRIOR RADICAL MIDDLE TEXTS:
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
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