Radical Middle Newsletter
Idealism Without Illusions

 

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OUR  CONGRES- SIONAL SCORECARDS:

109th and 110th Congresses (2005-08)

108th Congress (2003 & 2004)

107th Congress (2001 & 2002)

OUR POLITICAL BOOK AWARD WINNERS:

1980 - 2009, Complete

RESPONSES FROM  OTHERS:

Feisty E-mails to the Editor, 2008 - 2009

Feisty E-mails to the Editor, 2007

Feisty E-mails to the Editor, 2006

Feisty E-mails to the Editor, 2005

Feisty Letters to the Editor, 2002-04

Feisty Letters to the Editor, 1999-2001

WHO WE ARE:

About the Editor (In-House Version)

About the Editor (By Marilyn Ferguson)

About Our Wonderful Pledgers

About Our Board of Advisors

About Our Sponsor, the Center for Visionary  Law

 

Our Wonderful
Pledgers

I. Explanatory Note FROM Mark Satin (C. 2005)

Radical Middle Online Newsletter does not exist because some wealthy donor or ideologically driven foundation or government grant-maker gave us “permission” to exist.  Nor does it exist because I'm living off some annuity.

Radical Middle Online Newsletter exists because 190+ readers of the hard copy version of Radical Middle (1999-2004) pledged to purchase 300 symbolic “Parts” of the online newsletter each year for the three years 2005-07 -- at $50 / Part -- thus assuring that,

(a) the newsletter would become FREE to all Web viewers around the world, and

(b) I’d have just enough money to live on while devoting my full time and energies to researching and writing the articles that appear here.

I cannot tell you how good that makes me feel. So much of what we get these days is because of our demographics, or because we went to the right schools.  So far as I can tell, all the pledges that were given to Radical Middle were given for one reason alone: Because I proved, over many years’ time, that I have something unique and compelling to say.

Dear Pledgers, I am thrilled and deeply moved to have been called by each of you to do the writing that I do.

II. OUR PLEDGERS

All Pledgers’ info. below is recorded exactly as they wrote it on their pledge forms. They can have me revise their listings anytime. As it is, though, there’s a poetry to this list that’s really beautiful. I hope you can see it.

A. OUTSIDE THE U.S.

Canada

Sharon Matthias
Public Sector Policy and Organization Design Consulting
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Anonymous
Professor
Toronto

Anonymous (female)
Ontario

France

Kurt Colburn, Esq.
Counsel, International Mergers & Acquisitions
Paris, France

New Zealand

Anonymous (male)
New Zealand

Peru

Kathleen Fimmel
Writer / psychotherapist
Cusco, Peru

Sweden

Sven Atterhed
Executive Coach
Gothenburg, SWEDEN

B. INSIDE THE U.S.

Alaska

Dana Owen
Non-profit E.D.
Juneau, AK 99801

Sandra P. Wassilie
Freelance Writer / Former School Board Member
Seward, Alaska

Anonymous
Returned -- Seaman
Ketchikan, AK 99901

Anonymous (male)
Sitka, AK

Arizona

Geri Gray
T'ai Chi instructor
Phoenix, AZ

Richard Wahl
Pediatrician
Tucson AZ

Anonymous (male)
AZ

Anonymous (male)
AZ

California

John Amodeo
psychotherapist / author
Graton, CA

Joe Bamberg
East Palo Alto, CA

Michael Buchele
physician
Orinda, CA

L. B.
homemaker
Chico, CA

Mary Dean
An Advocate for Children
Oakland, Ca.

Bob Fernekes
Designer/Seeker
Berkeley, California

Bob Goings
Early Intervention Teacher
Springville, CA

E.B. Holden, Jr.
Retired
Bellflower, CA

Barbara Marx Hubbard
Pres. Fdn. for Conscious Evolution
402 E. Valerio \ Santa Barbara CA 93101

Doug Kruschke
President, InSynergy
Mar Vista, California

Lillian Laskin
Los Angeles, CA

L. Lathrop
Homemaker!
Santa Cruz CA

Locke McCorkle
Businessman
Palo Alto, CA

Corinne McL
Teacher/writer
San Rafael CA

Ernest Prabhakar
Founder, RadicalCentrism.org
Elk Grove, CA

Lance Read
Retired community college Counselor
San Clemente, California

Kenneth Renwick, MD
Emergency Physician
Sonora, CA

Diane Satin
college professor and author
Alameda, CA

Bill Shireman
President & CEO, The Future 500
San Francisco, CA

Barbara Thomas
Artist
California

Daniel Zwickel ben Avram
Troubadour
Pittsburg, California

Anonymous (male)
Berkeley, CA

Anonymous (male)
Berkeley, CA

Anonymous (female)
Green Valley, CA

Anonymous (male)
Los Angeles, CA

Anonymous (female)
Mill Valley, CA

Anonymous
Inventor / entrepreneur
Oakland, CA

Anonymous
Retired Sociologist
Oakland, CA

Anonymous (female)
Pasadena, CA

Anonymous (female)
Sacramento, CA

Anonymous
Conservative Aerospace Contractor
CA

Anonymous (male)
CA

Anonymous (male)
CA

Colorado

Rich Feller
Professor, Colorado State U.
Fort Collins, CO

Ron Kertzner
interfaith minister/coach
Boulder

John Arthur Neal
Writer -- Director
Denver, Colorado

Anonymous (female)
Aurora, CO

Anonymous (female)
Aurora, CO

Anonymous (male)
Denver, CO

Anonymous
Community Chaplain
Colorado Springs, CO, 80909

Connecticut

Frank Basler
Career Transition Coach
Bridgeport, CT

Barbara H. Levine
Author/publisher
Fairfield CT

District of Columbia

Anne Anderson, MSW
Coordinator, Psychologists for Social Responsibility & psychotherapist in private practice w/The Washington Therapy Guild.
Washington, DC

John Hesse
Consultant
Washington, DC

John Marks
President, Search for Common Ground
Washington, DC

Susan Collin Marks
Exec. Vice Pres., Search for Common Ground
Washington, DC

Neal Peirce
Citistates Group and Columnist, Wash. Post Writers group
Washington, DC

Mark Satin
Writer & activist
Wash DC

Michael Shuman
Attorney
Wash, DC

Linda Starke
Independent editor, sustainable development issues
Washington D.C.

Stephen E. Wiggins, M.D.
Family Physician
Washington, D.C.

Anonymous (female)
Washington, DC

Anonymous (male)
Washington, DC

Anonymous (male)
Washington, DC

Anonymous (male)
Washington, DC

Florida

Dale G. Alexander, Ph.D.
Integrated Awareness (r) Teacher
Key West, Fl 33040

Robert Graetz
Retired psychologist
Sarasota, FL

Carl House
development economist
Boca Raton, Florida

Hafey Krech
Retired: Educator / Social Worker
Miami / Coral Gables, FL

Randolf & Audwyn Wells
Old city design & development
Gainesville FL & Washington DC

Anonymous (female)
Gainesville, FL

Anonymous (male)
Miami, FL

Georgia

Anne E. Hardy
Retired teacher/student
Hiawassee, GA 30546

K. Merriweather
Advocate & Writer
College Park, GA

Terry Schansman
Retired
Jasper, GA

Anonymous (female)
Atlanta, GA

Anonymous (female)
GA

Hawaii

Jerry H. Bentley
Professor of History
Honolulu, Hawaii

Rev. Ka’imi Nicholson
Minister
Honolulu, Hawaii

Idaho

Anonymous (male)
Boise, ID

Illinois

Dr. M. Katz
freelance writer
Chicago, IL

Bernie Mayer
Wheaton, Illinois

Stan Perrin
Crystal Lake, Illinois

Robert S. Woito
Education
Chicago, IL 60615

Anonymous (male)
Champaign, IL

Anonymous (male)
Oak Park, IL

Anonymous (male)
Oak Park, IL

Anonymous
Public Safety
Peoria, IL.

Iowa

Robert D. Williams
Retired farmer & pastor
Clarinda Iowa

Kansas

Trucia Quistarc
Human Creature
Wichita, Planet Earth

Maine

Anonymous (male)
University-affiliated
ME

Maryland

David R. Glaser
Leadership Consultant
Columbia, MD

Betty Mullendore
Librarian (retired)
Gaithersburg MD

David Pearce Snyder
Consulting Futurist
Bethesda, Maryland, USA

Warren A. Van Wicklin III
international development consultant
Bethesda, MD

Ray Watts
retired lawyer
Rockville, MD

Anonymous
Educator
Annapolis, MD 21403

Anonymous
Engineer
Chevy Chase, MD

Massachusetts

John Abrams
CEO, South Mountain Co. Inc.
West Tisbury MA

Matthew Bansfield
Carpenter
Brookfield, MA

Dr. Judith Barnet
Affordable Housing Developer / Cape Cod
Yarmouth Port MA 02675

Josh Brackett
Writer/editor
Rockport, MA

Joseph N. Kane
Retired
Roslindale, Ma.

Nancy Lovejoy
Progressive activist
Wilbraham, Mass.

Jane Mansbridge
Professor
Cambridge MA 02138

Richmond Mayo-Smith
education
Boston MA

Allen Parker
Independent Reporter & R&D CFO
Cambridge, MA

Don Perlstein
Radical Middlest
Acton, MA

John G Root Jr
Lifesharer
Great Barrington MA

Twinkie
Salem, MA

Anonymous (male)
Boston, MA

Anonymous (male)
Cape Cod, MA

Michigan

Elizabeth S. Fernandez
volunteer worker
Lawrence MI

Barry Johnson
Founder, Polarity Management
Middleville, MI

Anon.
Ann Arbor, MI

Anonymous (male)
MI

Minnesota

Luke Friendshuh
Performance Modeling Engineer
Elko, MN

Virginia McCain
Retired
St. Paul, MN

New Hampshire

Altus Investment group
Socially responsible personal financial planner
Concord, NH

Lincoln L. Annas
Community organizer
Wolfeboro Falls, NH 03896

Bartlett Harvey
Retired overseas development official
Exeter, NH

Anonymous (male)
NH

New Jersey

Jim Gunning
Retired
Teaneck, NJ

Vivian Guze
Psychologist
Verona, New Jersey

Anonymous (male)
Law professor
Newark, NJ

Anonymous (female)
NJ

New Mexico

George Greer
Psychiatrist
Santa Fe, NM

Anonymous
Mgmt. consultant
Santa Fe / NM

Anonymous (female)
Santa Fe, NM

New York

Vera Bradova
Eczema Detective
Chester, NY

Julie Halpern
Actor, director, writer
NYC

Alexis Johnson, PhD
Clinical Psychologist
South Salem NY

Ana Kosok
Non-profit program director
NYC, NY

Anonymous
Retired World War II vet
The Bronx

Anonymous
Retired RN -- Spiritual coach
New Lebanon, N.Y. 12125

Anonymous (female)
New York, NY

Anonymous (male)
New York, NY

North Carolina

Dirk Spruyt
ecologist
Chapel Hill NC

A S White
retired
Davidson, NC 28036

Anonymous
Professor, Structural Biologist
Durham NC

Anonymous (male)
Charlotte, NC

Anonymous (female)
Durham, NC

Anonymous (female)
NC

North Dakota

ND State Rep. Eliot Glassheim
Used book dealer, writer, public official
Grand Forks, ND

Mary & Rob Sand
Killdeer, N.D.

Ohio

Jack & Luanna Hale
Retired Employment Counselor & Teacher
Ashtabula OH 44004

Steve Kramer
College Professor
Alliance, OH

Judge Mark P. Painter
Court of Appeals
Cincinnati, Ohio

Don Hollister
OH

Oregon

Lew Bowers
Place making; downtown development
Portland Oregon

Mary Devlin
Librarian / dance caller
Portland, OR

Emily Herbert
Psychologist
Redmond, OR

Elsa A. Porter
Portland, OR

Nando Raynolds
Psychotherapist specializing in helping adults and couples create emotional intimacy with themselves and others.
Ashland, OR, USA

Leif Running
design engineer at large corporation
Portland, Oregon

Pennsylvania

Amy Kietzman
home maker & writer
Phila. PA

Anonymous (female)
PA

Anonymous (male)
PA

Rhode Island

Howard R. Johnson
Ret. Theology-Philosophy Radical
Ashaway, RI 02804

Art Stein
college teacher -- Peace Studies / Univ of RI
Kingston, RI

Anonymous (male)
Providence, RI

Texas

Don Beck, Ph.D.
Founder, The Spiral Dynamics Group
Denton, TX

Tory Gattis
Social Systems Architect
Houston, TX

A. Quiroz
Physician
Tyler, Tx.

Anonymous
Consultant to Nonprofit Organizations
Dallas, Tx

Anonymous (male)
Elementary School Teacher
Dallas, TX

Anonymous (male)
TX

Vermont

David Doolittle
psychologist / social entrepreneur
Vermont

Anonymous
world peacemaker
Chelsea, VT

Virginia

P.M.H. Atwater, L.H.D.
Author, Speaker, Researcher
Charlottesville, VA

Dr. Henry Bobotek
Alexandria, VA 22309-2208

Cabell Brand
Retired shoe executive
Salem, Va

Warren F. Davis
Geographer
Arlington, Va.

Harry L. Gewanter, MD
Pediatrician
Richmond, VA

Eunice Hyer
Storyteller
Blakes VA

Tony Martin
Elementary School Teacher
Bedford, VA

Estill Putney
Nonviolent communication (sm) trainer
Blacksburg, VA

Nicolaus Tideman
Prof. of Economics
Blacksburg VA

James L. Vining
Capt., USAF (Ret)
Vienna VA 22180

Anonymous
Retired
Alexandria VA 22314-1736

Anonymous (male)
Blacksburg, VA

Anonymous (male)
Charlottesville, VA

Anonymous (female)
Falls Church, VA

Washington

Jeremy Berg
Non-profit Administrator
Seattle, WA

Larry Daloz
Educator
Clinton, WA

H & M Dimock
Writers
Carnation, Wash.

Sherryl Gunnels
Educator
Seattle, WA

Alan Mountjoy-Venning
Olympia, WA

Edryce Reynolds
Consultant/Trainer
Tacoma, WA

Margaret Riddle
History Specialist -- Everett Public Library
Everett, WA 98203

Barbara F. Schaetti, Ph.D.
Intercultural consultant
Seattle / WA

Freya Secrest
Community educator & life coach
Seattle, WA

Anonymous
Univ. Prof, Physicist, Futurist
Bellingham WA

Anonymous (male)
Blaine, WA

Anonymous (couple)
Langley, WA

Anonymous
Retired
Olympia WA

Anonymous (male)
Seattle, WA

Anonymous
poet
Woodinville, WA

Anonymous (couple)
WA

Anonymous (male)
WA

West Virginia

Anonymous (male)
WV

Wisconsin

Ray Starrett
Retired Psychology Prof.
La Crosse W

Anonymous
Retired
Coleman, WI 54112-0195

ABOUT THE RADICAL MIDDLE CONCEPT

WHY "Radical Middle"?

WIKIPEDIA Weighs In

50 Thinkers and Activists DESCRIBE the Radical Middle 

50 Best Radical Middle BOOKS of the '00s

GREAT RADICAL MIDDLE  GROUPS AND BLOGS:

100 Great Radical Centrist GROUPS and  Organizations

25 Great Radical Centrist BLOGS

SOME PRIOR RADICAL MIDDLE INITIATIVES:

Generational Equity and Communitarian platforms 1990s

First U.S. Green Party gatherings, 1987 - 1990

Green Party's "Ten Key Values" statement, 1984

New World Alliance, 1979 - 1983

PDF of  the Alliance's "Transformation Platform," 1981

SOME RADICAL MIDDLE LESSONS:

What the Draft Resistance Movement Taught Me

What the Civil Rights Movement Taught Me

SOME PRIOR  WRITINGS BY MARK SATIN:

New Options Newsletter, 1984-1992 (includes back issue PDFs!)

New Age Politics: Healing Self and Society, 1976,  1978 (includes 1976 text PDF!)

OTHER
PRIOR   RADICAL MIDDLE TEXTS:

50 Best "Third Way" Books of the 1990s

25 Best "Transformational" Books of the 1980s

25 Best "New Age Politics" Books of the 1970s

NOT JUST RADICAL MIDDLE:

10 Best U.S. Political NOVELS

50 Current Political IDEOLOGIES

50 Current Political  MANIFESTOS