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ARCHIVE B: Access Past Mark Satin Articles, 1999- 2004

ARCHIVE X: Access Past John Avlon Articles, 2004-06

RADICAL MIDDLE, THE BOOK:

Book's Home Page

Book's Preface

Author's Publicity Schedule

Press Clips and Blog Snips

RESPOND TO OUR ARTICLES AND VIEW OTHERS' RESPONSES:

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Feisty E-mails to the Editor, 2008

Feisty E-mails to the Editor, 2007

Feisty E-mails to the Editor, 2006

Feisty E-mails to the Editor, 2005

Feisty Letters to the Editor, 2002-04

Feisty Letters to the Editor, 1999-2001

WHO WE ARE:

About the Editor (In-House Version)

About the Editor (By Marilyn Ferguson)

About Our Wonderful Pledgers -- and How You Can Join Them

About Our Directors and Advisors

About Our Sponsor, the Center for Visionary Law

RADICAL MIDDLE  CONGRES- SIONAL SCORECARDS:

109th and 110th Congresses (2005-08)

108th Congress (2003 & 2004)

107th Congress (2001 & 2002)

RADICAL MIDDLE POLITICAL BOOK AWARD WINNERS:

1998 - Present

SOME PRIOR RADICAL MIDDLE BOOKS:

50 Best "Third Way" Books of the 1990s

25 Best "Transformational" Books of the 1980s

25 Best "New Age Politics" Books of the 1970s

SOME PRIOR  BOOKS BY MARK SATIN:

New Options for America (book drawn from New Options News- letter, 1983-92)

New Age Politics: Healing Self and Society, 1976

Manual for Draft-Age Immigrants to Canada, 1968

Center for Visionary Law, Business, and Public Policy

The Center for Visionary Law, Business, and Public Policy is the non-profit educational organization that publishes and promotes Radical Middle Newsletter.

The Center was founded on May 14, 1998, in Denver, Colo., by Kurt Colburn, a corporate attorney from Denver; Roger Pritchard, a business advisor and investor from Berkeley, Calif.; and David Yamada, a labor and employment law professor from Boston, Mass.

The three founders represent three generations: Roger was born in 1940, David in the late 50s, and Kurt at the end of the 60s. And they embody one of the themes of the newsletter, The World Is Here: David is Japanese-American -- Roger is a British citizen -- Kurt is third-generation Coloradan.

The founders constituted the Board of Directors from 1998-2001.  Kurt became president of the Center as the year 2001 began, and the other two founders stepped down.  Kurt was joined on the Board by Mark Satin, Executive Director of the Center and editor of Radical Middle Newsletter, and by Allen Parker, chief financial officer of a rising high-tech firm near Boston. Allen stepped down as 2005 began and was replaced by Terrye Wilder, mother of two and retired executive secretary of the San Francisco Municipal Court.

The Directors meet formally each year by conference call, and check in with each other a lot more often than that.

The Center's founding documents authorize not only a newsletter, but such complementary activities as:

-- other politically informed writings;

-- an annual Political Book Award;

-- a biennial Congressional Voting Index;

-- seminars and conferences;

-- “test cases” brought by the Executive Director and student interns to prod institutions to move in the directions suggested by Radical Middle Newsletter.

In 1998, the Center's first Political Book Award was handed out.  In 2002, the Center's first Congressional Voting Index was published (and was soon incorporated into Project Vote Smart's definitive website).  In 2004, the Center's first book was published (by Westview Press / Perseus Books Group).  The Center -- not Mark Satin -- holds copyright to the book.

In 2005, the Center decided to entirely replace the handsome but pricey print version of Radical Middle Newsletter with the freely available online version you're reading now.

Along with most of the members of the Radical Middle Newsletter Board of Advisors, the Center's Board of Advisors includes Elizabeth Barr, physician (WI), Victoria Brown, professor (IA), Bruce Cameron, lobbyist (DC), Ann Weiser Cornell, therapist (CA), Isao Fujimoto, community organizer (CA), William Halal, author of The New Management (DC), Mark Marmer, attorney (NY), Saul Mendlovitz, law professor (NY), Michael Phillips, author of Honest Business (CA), James Power, attorney (NY), Rustum Roy, professor (PA), Lewis Solomon, co-author of Corporations: Law and Policy (DC), and David Yamada, law professor (MA).

THE RADICAL MIDDLE CONCEPT:

Why "Radical Middle"?

Over 40 Good People (Try to) Describe the Radical Middle

50 Best Radical Middle Books of the '00s (so far)

Five Best Radical Middle Magazines, annotated

Over 20  Arguably Radical Middle National POLITICIANS

GREAT RADICAL MIDDLE  GROUPS AND BLOGS:

NEW:
Over 250 Great Radical Centrist Groups and  Organizations - all linked to their home pages AND to our articles!

Over 50 Great Radical Centrist Blogs - all with their bloggers named and described!

NOT JUST RADICAL MIDDLE:

Ten Best U.S. Political Novels, annotated

25 RED- HOT RADICAL MIDDLE INITIATIVES:

Ashoka

Breakthough Institute

Center for Global Development

Centrist Coalition

Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget

Communitarian Network

Consensus Building Institute

Environmental Defense

Ethical Markets

Giraffe Heroes Project

Global Business Network

Information Technology & Innovation Foundation

Institute for Alternative Futures

National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation

NDN/New Politics Institute

New America Foundation

Progressive Policy Institute

Republican Main Street Partnership

RESULTS

Reuniting America

Search for Common Ground

Third Way

Unity08

Vasconcellos Project

World Future Society

SOME PRIOR RADICAL MIDDLE INITIATIVES:

Generational Equity and Communitarian platforms,1990s

U.S. Green Party's "Ten Key Values" statement, 1980s

New World Alliance, 1970s

Civil Rights Movement, 1960s (your editor is HERE, 6th from bottom)