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...involved in almost any political group will be likely to gain valuable experience working on campaigns, researching policy, planning events, gaining knowledge of the legislative process, or organizing their peers. An education in the human consequences of public policy, however, the kind of education that can only come from direct work with those who most directly bear the brunt of bad policies, is often missing. This can lead to a two-dimensional understanding of issues that is heavy on facts but light on real understanding...
Those involved in political groups never question the moral worth of direct service work, but tend to believe that more lasting and broadly-based change can be achieved through the political process. While this is a perfectly valid perspective, it works best when supplemented with the experience that can best be gleaned from hands-on work: seeing first-hand the consequences of eviction storage regulations through HPAG, or a struggling health care system through Project Health, or an underperforming school through a range of tutoring programs offered on this campus, can both inform and motivate in a manner entirely distinct...
...offered by the Phillips Brooks House. On the organizational level, political groups would do well to organize community service days designed to educate their membership about an issue they’re working on. Additionally, they might extend such efforts, many of which happen already, to formal partnerships with direct-service groups that frequently undertake this sort of work—and then, perhaps, invite those groups to work with them on a political project of some form...
...voters in localities across the U.S. will be asked to say yea or nay to affirmative action, abortion and embryonic-stem-cell research. "All of these are very personal issues. Who better to decide them than citizens themselves?" asks Archon Fung, a government professor at Harvard. "This is true direct democracy...
They were once regarded as deceptions planted by evil spirits, but fossils eventually came to be recognized as Exhibits A, B and C of the history of life. Those stony specimens are the only direct evidence of what happened in the eons since the first rudimentary cells emerged on Earth some 3.6 billion years...