January 2007
Intermediate to advanced
760 pages
23h 12m
English
TREE BRESSEN
Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.
—Harry Emerson Fosdick

It was 1984 and the Green Party was attempting its first large organizational meeting in the United States. More than one hundred activists had gathered for a weekend in St. Paul, Minnesota, to launch the movement. As the hours lengthened, frustrations grew. Well into the second day, as one participant tells it, the group was a “fractious mess,” and the term “still birth” was being thrown around to describe what was happening. As this final day drew toward a close, ...
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