Word: democraticized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What is the value of conferences like Democratic Agenda? "We need more national movements, national figures saying 'we are the left.' Unfortunately I'm not too happy with some of the peoplesaying that now--Fonda, Hayden. And this is a start."
Farmer talked about the troubled conditions of a traditional liberal coalition that predates the Democratic Agenda by many years. "The alliance between blacks and Jews has been enormously useful to the civil rights movement, not just financially but through participation," said the former head of the Congress on Racial Equality...
Last weekend, however, the swimming stopped. Folding chairs and activists replaced chaise lounges at poolside, and the sign outside read: "Workshop at 2:30--Fighting Corporations From the Inside." In the midst of Washington wealth, the national conference of the Democratic Agenda (DA)--a broad but shaky left-liberal coalition...
Whether the specific problem under discussion was the energy crisis (a popular topic), union rights, inflation, unemployment, housing, or health care--or the federal government's impotence in dealing with the problem--the preferred solution turned out to be giving the "power to the people" and taking it away from...
Which is what DA is, to an extent, all about. One other similarity links Harrington and Georgine--they're both Democrats. DA, as its literature proclaims, is "the major coalition within (emphasis added) the Democratic Party concerned with developing and fighting for progressive economic and social programs." Expect no Port...