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The Growing Democracy Project is a cultural and political program for developing a legion of everyday citizens who can generate enough collective power to make democracy the dominant political force in our country. The strategy is to produce persistent and effective citizen action to solve shared problems at all levels of our society. The means is continuous development of participants’ “habits of the heart” and skillful means.

An interview with Jessica Gordon-Nembhard.

We are living in the unusual, and we don't know what that means. Maybe, all bets are off. Whatever, we will need to rethink a lot.

The New York Times is making a sincere and fairly effective effort to correct its serious missed-recognition of events and people (mostly women and people of color). One example of this is the publication of an Op-Ed piece about Ella Baker, a black woman who played as major a role in the Black Freedom Movement throughout the mid-20^th century, including the Civil Rights Movement, as anyone. Her biographer, Barbara Ransby, beautifully captures the heart, mind, soul, and hands of Baker’s work in 1250 words.

Why the metaphor of a cooperative ecosystem should be changed to a metaphor of a cooperative organism.

It is important that non-profit cooperative developers democratize their own work places.

What do Americans call home?

Black Live Matter Activist and Tea Party organizer discuss politics

A conservative organization is focused on depolarizing political conversations.