-media literacy needs to be improved for Americans
-next, get the money out of elections (public financing)
-begin the process of changing Charters of corporations
[then there will finally be some balance in the system.....]
-Steve Grube
> The San Francisco Chronicle February 13, 2000
>
> THE AMERICAN LEFT HAS LEFT US
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> by Don Monkerud [a high-tech writer/novelist living in Aptos]
>
> The widening income gap in America points to a distressing
> aspect of the close of the 20th century: the lack of a viable,
> organized and coherent left in this country. [Portions deleted.......]
> The political debate in the United States today is restricted and
> conservative. Unless people begin to see their interests as different
> from the interests of the corporations that control our economic
> and social lives, America will be held hostage to corporate interests
> well into the 21st century.
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