<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Robert Steele</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:robert.david.steele.vivas@gmail.com">robert.david.steele.vivas@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 9:51 AM<br>Subject: Fwd: [New post] OPEN POWER: Electoral Reform Act of 2015 – Open Source Activist Tool Kit<br>To: Robert Steele <<a href="mailto:Robert.David.Steele.Vivas@gmail.com">Robert.David.Steele.Vivas@gmail.com</a>><br><br><br><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote">If any of you are willing to risk $2.99 for my first Kindle book, am eager to get feedback. I paid just over $100 for a professional mobi file and want to know what you think. Of course I would be honored to have you also review it -- and if you are not a kindle kind of person, I will gladly send you the word version in return for a review. Briefing it in Portland on Saturday, trying to get a tiny bit of buzz between now and then. Love to you all -- I have not given up on the USA, but I do despair sometimes.<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br><u></u>
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This is my first Kindle book, published in conjunction with my briefing it to the Economics of Happiness Conference in Portland, Oregon on 28 February 2015. Below is the full description of the book. Amazon provides Look Inside including the Table of Co" </span>
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<p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:#444;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0 0 1em">This is my first Kindle book, published in conjunction with my briefing it to the Economics of Happiness Conference in Portland, Oregon on <a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="http://tinyurl.com/OpenPower" target="_blank">28 February 2015</a>. Below is the full description of the book. Amazon provides Look Inside including the Table of Contents.</p>
<p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:#444;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0 0 1em">Micah Sifry says it best in his new book, <a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00OEGVORY/ossnet-20" target="_blank"></i><i>The Big Disconnect</a>, when he outlines how all activists are as fragmented and ineffective today as they were in the <a href="tel:1960" value="+661960" target="_blank">1960</a>'s. -- the two-party duopology and the 42 billionaires behind that two-party duopology have successfully "channeled" all activist groups -- including MoveOn and IndependentVoting.org and the Libertarians and the Greens. Everyone is obsessed with "their" hashtag, "their" micro-issues. However well-intentioned they might be, the fact is that we are hanging separately for failure to come together on the ONE THING that we can both all support, and also win: #ElectoralReform.</p>
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