| Co-authors are A. Lawrence Chickering (conservative) and James S. Turner (liberal and former Nader's Raider)
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on p. 78, the authors say that "The most visible self-identified transpartisan organization in the United States today, Reuniting America, which we serve as advisors, has since its founding in 2003, held dozens of meetings that bring together people associated with groups across the political spectrum - groups with a collective membership of more than thirty million."
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Individuals who served on the steering committee of Reuniting America held leadership positions in the following organizations:
American Association for Affirmative Action
American Conservative Union
Americans for Tax Reform
American Gas Association
American Legion
America Speak
America Votes
BrainTrain
Center for a New American Dream
Christian Coalistion
Club for Growth
Common Cause
Constitution Project
Conversation Cafe
Council for Excellence in Government
Deep Dialogues for Deep Democracy
Democracy in America Project
Equal Rights Advocates
Fetzer Institute
Foundation for Conscious Evolution
Global Citizens Journey
Global negotiation Project, Harvard Law School
League of Women Voters
Lets Talk America
Liberty Coalition
Mediators Foundatioin
Meetup.com
momrising.org
Muslim Public Affairs Council
Natioinal Commons
National Council of Churches USA
Patrick henry Center
Patriots to Restore Checks and Balances
Public Conversation Project
Search for Common Ground USA
Utne Institute
Utne Magazine
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Chickering is a member of Transpartisan Alliance.
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organizations that identified themselves as transpartisan, "in response to a questionnaire that begins the process of creating an online directory of such groups on the Transpartisan Voice website:"
1) Mediator's Foundation
2) East West Institute
3) Americaspeaks
4) US Consensus Council/Search for Common Ground-USA
5) Abraham Path Initiative
6) E-Parliament
7) The Mainstream Media Project / and / A World of Possibilities, Inc.
8) Eleanor LeCain, www.worldinnovationnetwork.org/Crime.html
"examples from her book"
www.delanceystreetfoundation.org
www.insideschools.org/fs/school_profile.php?id=1166
www.rmi.org/sitepages/pid23.php
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1) "see the 25 'red hot Radical Middle Initiatives' on www.radicalmiddle.com"
2) more than 250 additional organization listed under "Politics and Process" heading on
www.radicalmiddle.com/organizations.htm |
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