TRUE REPRESENTATION: How Citizens’ Assemblies and Sortition Will Save Democracy - Softcover

Wachtel, Ted

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1934355453 ISBN 13: 9781934355459

Publisher: The Piper’s Press, 2020

Synopsis

Building a New Reality is a non-partisan, evidence-based social movement dedicated to the decentralization of power and to participatory decision-making in every facet of society: learning, governance, care, justice, enterprise and spirit.True Representation is the key goal of representative governance — the bullseye of democracy. We advocate for more voice and more choice, in exchange for taking more responsibility. Visit our website and look around. You can subscribe at the bottom of any page to get blog posts and updates. Join us. BuildingANewReality.com

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About the Author

Ted Wachtel is a visionary, an educator and a serial entrepreneur, in that order. He has always seen the world as it could be, in its best potential sense. A man of action, he worked toward that vision first as an educator in the Pennsylvania public school system. Quickly realizing the limitations of what he came to view as an outmoded system that didn't adequately serve all would-be learners, he began working toward a better way; one that addressed the needs of learners who hadn't been able to thrive in the rigid, traditional classroom structure. From there, he and Susan, his wife, launched a series of projects; some short-lived, but most ongoing. They have organized local political campaigns, founded schools, group homes, counseling and treatment programs for adolescents, an accredited master's degree-granting graduate school, an art museum, a solar housing development, an organic mini-farm, a food cooperative, a book publishing company and more, mostly in the United States but also several projects overseas. In service of many of these goals, Ted wrote or co-wrote many books, and continues to do so today. Despite having officially retired in 2015, he shows no signs of slowing down his energetic pace, though he does now take more time to spend with loved ones and enjoying the fruits of his many and varied labors over the years.

Edition details

• Publisher: The Piper’s Press
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1934355453
• ISBN 13: 9781934355459
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 99