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From: berman@ihuxm.UUCP (The Keyboard of Reason)
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Subject: Re: Participative Democracy
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Date: Mon, 30-Apr-84 11:17:26 EDT
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"Paricipative Democracy"...now that's a great idea!

I seem to remember a call for it, by a student group in the
year 1963, a small group just emerging from the duldrums of the 1950's
beginning to feel the stirings of civil rights and anti-war activism
that characterized the decade that followed.  The published a call
for "Participatory Democracy" after a national conference, in a 
manifesto called "The Port Huron Statement." If popular demand
reqests it, I'll dig out my dusty dogged eared copy and post
the sections describing what was meant by participatory democracy.

The organization? It was a small group of university students
that called itself "Students for a Democratic Society".

The rest is history.


      Andy Berman