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Jackie Salit analogized the wave of independent motion to the reported cosmological breakthrough:
” I’d argue that we, through various things we’re doing to build our movement, are providing and creating a special energy (to use the scientific term) that’s driving the expansion and development of the independent political universe.”
Jackie Salit spoke about the War on Poverty on its 50th anniversary and how it gave greater control to the political parties while failing in its mission. “We are the force, that believes public policy has got to be nonpartisan, it’s got to be workable, it has to be developmental, and it can’t be structured or organized in ways that accrue greater and greater power to the political parties…
Progress report on Independent Voting’s campaign to pressure the Commission on Presidential Elections. Salit address the crisis of partisanship. “Party loyalists are working overtime to protect themselves from any kind of nonpartisan reform while we are being told to sit down and be quiet.”