(Image: Cognitive Policy Works)Are you ready to build the progressive movement that America desperately needs? This is the moment you’ve been waiting for. We’ve finished writing the Progressive Strategy Handbook that you — the community — paid for last fall through a crowdfunding campaign.
So you want to be part of a real progressive movement? You’ve come to the right place.
We are tired of sitting idly by hoping that our elected officials will set a bold and visionary agenda for progressive change. We know that our political system is fundamentally broken and that swapping out one corporate-sponsored politician for another is only going to preserve, if not strengthen, the status quo.
And we’re tired of waiting for wealthy progressives to get the message that they need to fund a movement, not just another election cycle. Since they have shown an inability to put money into progressive infrastructure for the long haul, we’re going to have to do it ourselves. And with the power of social media tools, we believe it is now possible for us to come together and do this.
After years calling for investments in long-term capacity for the movement, we’ve grown tired of waiting for someone else to step up to the plate. So we’re doing something radical: We’re bypassing the elites, going straight to the crowd, and getting down to work.
A Strategy Handbook "By The People, For The People"
We are excited to announce the release of The Progressive Strategy Handbook: How Progressives Can Create A New Vision For America, a project funded by the crowd and collaboratively created using techniques that unleash the wisdom of crowds.Ownership of the handbook is distributed to you and to all users. Since it was paid for by the crowd, the crowd owns it. We have released it under a creative commons license that distributes ownership across all users. The particulars of this legal arrangement provide clues to how it can be used.
- You are free to share it with your friends without being charged (right to distribute);
- You are free to revise and improve it (right to remix), so long as you give credit to those whose work you are building upon (the attribution clause);
- You have the right to release a new version so long as you preserve this license in the new version (the viral propagation clause).
These legal criteria are designed to encourage sharing and improvement of the handbook, while also ensuring that the ability to share and improve gets passed along to later versions. So if you contribute to this project, you will be given credit for your work and you will be free to access and use the materials generated by the crowd into the future.
In the spirit of collaboration, our team at Cognitive Policy Works will help foster dialogue around how to improve the handbook. We’ll provide online forums for open discussion and debate on our website. And we will help attract various experts to the effort as the need arises. In concrete terms, this means we are provid
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