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We need to take much more responsibility for public affairs than we've been prepared to, up to now. A new, independent political party of working people, it seems to me, is the best way to organize our efforts. We can improve our chances for survival tremendously if we accept the heavy responsibility being thrust upon us and if we stop handing our future over to the political professionals and just practice a little participatory democracy. Let's begin the process as an experiment and end up making it a habit.

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Jerry Kann has made his living in New York City since the late 1980s in a variety of odd jobs--proofreader, copywriter, messenger, secretary--all while pursuing the very challenging avocation of independent politics. For years Kann's primary (more...)
 

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