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ONLINE NEWSLETTER: Selected E-mails to the Editor ARCHIVES: The Very Best of Radical Middle Access All Mark Satin Articles, 2005- 2009 Access All Mark Satin Articles, 1999- 2004 Access John Avlon Articles, 2004-2006 RADICAL MIDDLE, THE BOOK: RESPOND TO OUR ARTICLES AND VIEW OTHERS' RESPONSES: Feisty E-mails to the Editor, 2008 - 2009 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 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) |
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? |
THE RADICAL MIDDLE CONCEPT: 50 Thinkers and Activists DESCRIBE the Radical Middle 50 Best Radical Middle BOOKS of the '00s 10 Best Radical Middle MAGAZINES 25 Arguably Radical Middle POLITICIANS GREAT RADICAL MIDDLE GROUPS AND BLOGS: Over 250 Great Radical Centrist GROUPS and Organizations 50 Great Radical Centrist BLOGS NOT JUST RADICAL MIDDLE: 50 Current Political IDEOLOGIES Organizations REFLECTING 50 Political Ideologies 50 Current Political MANIFESTOS Fiction and Memoirs ABOUT Ideologies 25 RED- HOT RADICAL MIDDLE INITIATIVES: Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget Future 500 [corporations & NGOs] Information Technology & Innovation Foundation Institute for Alternative Futures Institute for Communitarian Policy Studies International Network on Therapeutic Jurisprudence 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) |