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Article: New Party time. (new progressive political party) (Cover Story)
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- The Progressive
- Article date:
- January 1, 1995
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Over the last three years, I've had thousands of conversations with people about the idea of building a new political party in the United States. Many of these conversations have been with the leadership of existing organizations: labor unions, environmental groups, low-income community organizations, pro-choice networks, school-reform coalitions, and more. And I've spoken and corresponded with countless individual activists, writers, farmers, donors, teachers, programmers, cab drivers, Perotistas, doctors, artists, social Christians, Quakers, the unemployed, the underemployed, workaholics, alcoholics, young feminists, old leftists, and nearly every member of both sides of ...