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BLOG, AKA ONLINE NEWSLETTER: Sign Up to Receive Monthly Article Alerts Selected E-mails to the Editor ARCHIVES: ARCHIVE A: Access Past Mark Satin Articles, 2005- Present ARCHIVE B: Access Past Mark Satin Articles, 1999- 2004 ARCHIVE X: Access Past John Avlon Articles, 2004-06 RADICAL MIDDLE, THE BOOK: RESPOND TO OUR ARTICLES AND VIEW OTHERS' RESPONSES: 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) RADICAL MIDDLE POLITICAL BOOK AWARD WINNERS: 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) |
Our Wonderful Pledgers Explanatory Note by Mark Satin Radical Middle Online Newsletter does not exist because some wealthy donor or ideologically driven foundation or government grant-maker gave us “permission” to exist. Nor does it exist because I'm living off some annuity. Radical Middle Online Newsletter exists because 190+ readers of the hard copy version of Radical Middle (1999-2004) pledged to purchase 300 symbolic “Parts” of the online newsletter each year for the three years 2005-07 -- at $50 / Part -- thus assuring that, (a) the newsletter would become FREE to all Web viewers around the world, and (b) I’d have just enough money to live on while devoting my full time and energies to researching and writing the articles that appear here. I cannot tell you how good that makes me feel. So much of what we get these days is because of our demographics, or because we went to the right schools. So far as I can tell, all the pledges that were given to Radical Middle were given for one reason alone: Because I proved, over many years’ time, that I have something unique and compelling to say. Actually, a couple of Parts are still available, and you can purchase them (and help support this fledgling enterprise) by clicking HERE. I decided to go ahead even before raising every last Part because, well, that's what writers do -- write. And because hardly anyone is speaking to those of us who’ve grown tired of the dreamy half-truths of the far left and far right, but who also know that the politics we need now has little to do with the Washington DC turf battles that preoccupy the mainstream media (and are the obsession of a thousand breathless Blogs). Allan Bloom put it beautifully and very radical middle-y when he said, “We need to criticize . . . Utopia, but the easy way out provided by realism is deadly.” If you do purchase a Part or two, you’ll be joining wonderful company. I’d even call it a community (though by no means a Utopian one -- too much ambition, too much passion, too much love of life there to be hemmed in by an ideology). Dear Pledgers, I am thrilled and deeply moved to have been called by each of you to do the writing that I do. . . . [N.b.: All Pledgers’ info. below is recorded exactly as they wrote it on their pledge forms. They can have me revise their listings anytime. As it is, though, there’s a poetry to this list that’s really beautiful. I hope you can see it.] OUTSIDE THE U.S. Canada Sharon Matthias Anonymous Anonymous (female) France Kurt Colburn, Esq. New Zealand Anonymous (male) Peru Kathleen Fimmel Sweden Sven Atterhed Alaska Dana Owen Sandra P. Wassilie Anonymous Anonymous (male) Arizona Geri Gray Richard Wahl Anonymous (male) Anonymous (male) California John Amodeo Joe Bamberg Michael Buchele L. B. Mary Dean Bob Fernekes Bob Goings E.B. Holden, Jr. Barbara Marx Hubbard Doug Kruschke Lillian Laskin L. Lathrop Locke McCorkle Corinne McL Ernest Prabhakar Lance Read Kenneth Renwick, MD Diane Satin Bill Shireman Barbara Thomas Daniel Zwickel ben Avram Anonymous (male) Anonymous (male) Anonymous (female) Anonymous (male) Anonymous (female) Anonymous Anonymous Anonymous (female) Anonymous (female) Anonymous Anonymous (male) Anonymous (male) Colorado Rich Feller Ron Kertzner John Arthur Neal Anonymous (female) Anonymous (female) Anonymous (male) Anonymous Connecticut Frank Basler Barbara H. Levine District of Columbia Anne Anderson, MSW John Hesse John Marks Susan Collin Marks Neal Peirce Mark Satin Michael Shuman Linda Starke Stephen E. Wiggins, M.D. Anonymous (female) Anonymous (male) Anonymous (male) Anonymous (male) Florida Dale G. Alexander, Ph.D. Robert Graetz Carl House Hafey Krech Randolf & Audwyn Wells Anonymous (female) Anonymous (male) Georgia Anne E. Hardy K. Merriweather Terry Schansman Anonymous (female) Anonymous (female) Hawaii Jerry H. Bentley Rev. Ka’imi Nicholson Idaho Anonymous (male) Illinois Dr. M. Katz Bernie Mayer Stan Perrin Robert S. Woito Anonymous (male) Anonymous (male) Anonymous (male) Anonymous Iowa Robert D. Williams Kansas Trucia Quistarc Maine Anonymous (male) Maryland David R. Glaser Betty Mullendore David Pearce Snyder Warren A. Van Wicklin III Ray Watts Anonymous Anonymous Massachusetts John Abrams Matthew Bansfield Dr. Judith Barnet Josh Brackett Joseph N. Kane Nancy Lovejoy Jane Mansbridge Richmond Mayo-Smith Allen Parker Don Perlstein John G Root Jr Twinkie Anonymous (male) Anonymous (male) Michigan Elizabeth S. Fernandez Barry Johnson Anon. Anonymous (male) Minnesota Luke Friendshuh Virginia McCain New Hampshire Altus Investment group Lincoln L. Annas Bartlett Harvey Anonymous (male) New Jersey Jim Gunning Vivian Guze Anonymous (male) Anonymous (female) New Mexico George Greer Anonymous Anonymous (female) New York Vera Bradova Julie Halpern Alexis Johnson, PhD Ana Kosok Anonymous Anonymous Anonymous (female) Anonymous (male) North Carolina Dirk Spruyt A S White Anonymous Anonymous (male) Anonymous (female) Anonymous (female) North Dakota ND State Rep. Eliot Glassheim Mary & Rob Sand Ohio Jack & Luanna Hale Steve Kramer Judge Mark P. Painter Don Hollister Oregon Lew Bowers Mary Devlin Emily Herbert Elsa A. Porter Nando Raynolds Leif Running Pennsylvania Amy Kietzman Anonymous (female) Anonymous (male) Rhode Island Howard R. Johnson Art Stein Anonymous (male) Texas Don Beck, Ph.D. Tory Gattis A. Quiroz Anonymous Anonymous (male) Anonymous (male) Vermont David Doolittle Anonymous Virginia P.M.H. Atwater, L.H.D. Dr. Henry Bobotek Cabell Brand Warren F. Davis Harry L. Gewanter, MD Eunice Hyer Tony Martin Estill Putney Nicolaus Tideman James L. Vining Anonymous Anonymous (male) Anonymous (male) Anonymous (female) Washington Jeremy Berg Larry Daloz H & M Dimock Sherryl Gunnels Alan Mountjoy-Venning Edryce Reynolds Margaret Riddle Barbara F. Schaetti, Ph.D. Freya Secrest Anonymous Anonymous (male) Anonymous (couple) Anonymous Anonymous (male) Anonymous Anonymous (couple) Anonymous (male) West Virginia Anonymous (male) Wisconsin Ray Starrett Anonymous |
THE RADICAL MIDDLE CONCEPT: 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 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: Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget Information Technology & Innovation Foundation Institute for Alternative Futures National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation Republican Main Street Partnership SOME PRIOR RADICAL MIDDLE INITIATIVES: Generational Equity and Communitarian platforms,1990s U.S. Green Party's "Ten Key Values" statement, 1980s Civil Rights Movement, 1960s (your editor is HERE, 6th from bottom) |