Healing Politics FROM THE PUBLISHER
It's easy to see the ills or afflictions of our political system. Special
interests -- global corporations, particularly -- and partisan disputes
prevent electoral reforms and progress on racism, pollution, education,
urban sprawl, health care, and other issues or problems.
Empowering ordinary Americans politically and economically is the key to
Healing Politics. "Citizen Policies" updates proposals or plans that were
presented by Tom Paine and others among America's founders; that helped
inspire the Progressive and Populist movements of the 1890s and 1900s; that
sparked the enactment of Social Security during the Great Depression; and
that passed the House of Representatives on April 16, 1970, by almost two to
one, only to be defeated in the Senate Finance Committee. Advocates in the
1960s included Martin Luther King Jr., politicians from Richard Nixon to
Daniel Patrick Moynihan to George McGovern, and economists Milton Friedman,
James Tobin, Paul Samuelson, and John Kenneth Galbraith. Earlier versions
were called 'guaranteed income,' 'basic economic security,' and 'negative
income tax.'
We the People can heal our political system, and must make government and
global corporations serve our needs and interests. As individuals and
together, We the People can solve our problems. Healing Politics shows how.
Author Biography: Steven Shafarman is a political activist and Feldenkrais Method practitioner who studied with Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais from 1976 to 1984. He lives in Washington, D.C., teaches internationally, and is the author of Awareness Heals: The Feldenkrais Method for Dynamic Health.
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