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Schalk Leonard Schalk Leonard for US Senate - Democracy in America, Moving Forward

Hi. My name is Schalk Leonard, candidate for US Senate in Washington State. www.schalk4senate.org

I am a retired Navy Judge Advocate (JAG) officer living in Poulsbo.

My campaign is centered on the Transpartisan Alliance vision of bringing the power of the citizen to the fore, and allowing our values to trump the values of money in government.

I accept no money, not now and not later. I will embrace and sha

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Added by Schalk Leonard on July 27, 2010 at 1:09pm — No Comments

Mike Lewinski Links and quotes I like

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I find all these ideas interesting, but they're just ideas and they might be wrong. From the perspective of openness that Jonathan Haidt talks about in the first link, I certainly fall to the liberal side. Ultimately I believe that the balance
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Added by Mike Lewinski on June 19, 2010 at 12:30am — No Comments

Debilyn Molineaux Transpartisan Fresno

On a warm spring night, a small, diverse group of concerned citizens gathered in a local library meeting room for dialogue. Our first meeting was described as a "getting to know you" meeting, with explanations about what transpartisan is exactly and some experiential dialogue exercises to get us talking.

In preparation for the meeting, I sent out a chart describing the difference between debate, dialogue, empathetic discourse and integral empathy. This chart was first designed by Mark G… Continue

Added by Debilyn Molineaux on May 9, 2010 at 2:14am — No Comments

Don Schneider The Psychology of Social Change

I've been thinking a lot about (and recently published a book about) the individual psychological factors involved in co-creating a better future. It seems that constructive dialogue about complex issues has become more difficult in our increasingly polarized nation. It is

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Added by Don Schneider on April 19, 2010 at 10:30am — 2 Comments

Nicholas Beecroft Can you share the TA Tool box with your British counterparts?

Hello. I wonder if anyone would be kind enough to share with me the transpartisan tool box you're using in the US? I'm working with friends here to launch some Global British Transpartisan Transformative Politics. I'm running an event to launch us, a kind of Transpartisan Alliance House Party, and it would be great to have a play with the tools you've developed.

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Added by Nicholas Beecroft on April 14, 2010 at 12:16pm — 1 Comment

Administrator How The Christian Coalition And MoveOn Helped Save The Internet Together

Adapted from the wholly updated new edition of "Soul of a Citizen: Living with Conviction in Challenging Times" by Paul Rogat Loeb (St Martin's Press)

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"When it comes to protecting Internet freedom, the Christian Coalition and MoveOn respectfully agree," read the New York Times ad. MoveOn was the largest progressive organization in America, and the Christian Coalition a key group for conservative religious activists. They'd never te… Continue

Added by Administrator on April 5, 2010 at 12:00pm — No Comments

Debilyn Molineaux What's a better word for Transpartisan?

Every year or so for the last 4 years, I end up in a conversation about the word "transpartisan." While the word itself is exactly right for what "we" (the TA core team) stand for in the U.S., it is an uncomfortable word for most people. Most people look at me with a blank stare and I spend 3-5 minutes explaining what transpartisan means from a couple of different angles.

If only there were a better way of describing the coming political cultural shift.

So I ask you, the TA com… Continue

Added by Debilyn Molineaux on March 25, 2010 at 12:33am — No Comments

Mark A. Adams JD/MBA Do You Want to Stop the Health Insurance Mandate?

If you really want to stop the health insurance profit promotion bill, then let Congress know that we will use our most powerful right to hold government accountable. This is our right to present evidence indicating the commission of a crime to a grand jury and ask for an investigation and an indictment.

Check out Do You Wan

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Added by Mark A. Adams JD/MBA on March 19, 2010 at 9:44pm — 1 Comment

Franca Baroni Birth of Transpartisan Seattle

How we began: In late October 2009 Joseph McCormick and Peter Hwosch of the Transpartisan Alliance (TA), an informal network of networks founded on the premise “United We Stand Divided We Fall” came to Seattle to present their vision. We gathered at the home of Global Citizen Journey and Conversation Café founder Susan Partnow to talk about the costs of political polarization and learn more about the TA vision. The small group of mostly liberal and indepen… Continue

Added by Franca Baroni on March 15, 2010 at 1:40pm — 4 Comments

Joseph McCormick Building bridges between left-right grassroots

How do you build trust, respect and communication between grassroots conservatives, liberals, greens, independents and people who don't identify with any label?

A couple weeks ago we held a Transpartisan Community Building evening in Seattle (at the Mosaic Coffee House) to address this question. About 18 people s… Continue

Added by Joseph McCormick on March 13, 2010 at 7:05pm — No Comments

Administrator Left-right citizens meet in healthy dialogue/debate on health care

By Joseph McCormick and Franca Baroni

This past Wednesday night at a meeting of the Transpartisan Alliance at the Mosaic Coffee house in Seattle about 20 Seattle area citizens from the left, right, and center met for a two hour dialogue/debate. We had no set agenda for the meeting. Topics were allowed to emerg… Continue

Added by Administrator on March 12, 2010 at 1:30pm — No Comments

teri stoddard NY family rights courthouse chalk writer arrested again

Family rights activist John Murtari was arrested Wednesday afternoon for graffiti, carrying graffiti material and trespassing while standing on the sidewalk in front of the Old County Court House in Lyons, NY. He had written "MR.... Read more » Continue

Added by teri stoddard on January 28, 2010 at 11:48am — No Comments

teri stoddard NY family rights activist continues to chalk on courthouse

Family rights activist John Murtari has expanded his public campaign asking Assemblyman Oaks for help. Not only has he moved his chalk messages from the sidewalk to the wall of the Wayne County Hall of Justice, Murtari's writing is much larger.

Murtari, founder of akidsright.org is best known for having a feeding tube for 123 days during a non-cooperation protest while incarcerated. He started this campaign in October.

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Added by teri stoddard on January 26, 2010 at 10:21pm — No Comments

Vernon Huffman Bike4Peace 2010

We're bicycling from San Francisco to Washington, DC between 24-July and 22-Sept, 2010, without motorized support. Cynthia McKinney, six term Member of Congress and 2008 Green Party nominee for President, is riding. The ride will demonstrate the bicycle… Continue

Added by Vernon Huffman on January 26, 2010 at 1:33pm — 1 Comment

Walt Roberts Joseph Stiglitz (Nobel economist) on Moral Bankruptcy and Flaws in the Prevailing Economic Model

http://waltsearch.wordpress.com/ Morals are at the heart of Transpartisanship. Examining the matter of morals at all levels, from personal to the socio-macro-economic, is a core conversation we need to encourage and engage in fully. Walt. MOTHER JONES "The global economy has just escaped a near-death experience. The crisis exposed the flaws in… Continue

Added by Walt Roberts on January 26, 2010 at 6:30am — No Comments

Walt Roberts Fostering strong Communities and Country starts with a quality of Citizenship. An apt definition from Peter Block.

http://waltsearch.wordpress.com/ The Transpartisan Alliance will soon launch a Transpartisan Citizens Pledge drive to help catalyze a Citizen Empowerment movement. Peter Block's definition and description of citizen is on point with what we have in mind. Think about your own ideas and expressions of "being an empowered citizen". Enjoy. Walt

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Added by Walt Roberts on January 26, 2010 at 6:00am — No Comments

Melinda Pillsbury-Foster Sociopaths - They Prey on All of Us

He constantly asks for sympathy, takes risks , lies to you and when caught shows no remorse. It is unsettling, frightening. Somehow it is your own fault. But why would anyone do these things? There is an answer. The terms, "psychopathy", "sociopath," "sociopath," and others refer to individuals… Continue

Added by Melinda Pillsbury-Foster on January 25, 2010 at 6:37am — No Comments

Melinda Pillsbury-Foster Passed along from Mark Crispin Miller

GOP Mailer Raises Hackles Over Census Similarity ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) http://wcco.com/local/rnc.mailer.census.2.1442406.html A survey and fundraising mailer from the Republican National Committee confused some Minnesota recipients with a label that marked it as "2010 Congressional District Census." The mailings have been showing up this week in homes in Minnesota and other states. One ended up at the home of St. Paul City C… Continue

Added by Melinda Pillsbury-Foster on January 25, 2010 at 6:32am — No Comments

Walt Roberts Kettering’s Research: What does it take for democracy to work as it should? Transpartisan Shift implications.

http://waltsearch.wordpress.com/ Participating in our democracy is many things, from depressing to exhilarating. It is fascinating to study, observe and discern how to improve or transform our democracy (the parts that are toxic or breaking down). The Kettering Foundation has done some thinking on this. Happy to see that the Transpartisan Alliance innitiatives are in step with these 3 key understandings.… Continue

Added by Walt Roberts on January 24, 2010 at 6:00am — No Comments

Walt Roberts Transpartisan Movement and pro-democracy reform in the news. Katrina vanden Heuvel is on it.

Katrina vanden Heuvel seems to have a handle on the need for pro-democracy reforms and the conditions being right for a transpartisan uprising; "There is fertile ground on which to rally people in a transpartisan political reform movement." I'm keeping my eye on Katrina. Enjoy. Walt See it on my blog. http://waltsearch.wordpress.com/ The Nation. The Massachusetts Lesson: Go Populist Now posted by Katrina vanden Heuvel on 01/19/2010… Continue

Added by Walt Roberts on January 23, 2010 at 5:30am — No Comments

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