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An excerpt from Thom Hartmann's new book, "Cracking the Code," Berrett-Koehler Publishing, says, "As Americans, the most important part of our social identity is our role as citizens. To be a citizen means to be part of, and a de-fender of, the commons of our nation. The water we drink, the air we breathe, the streets we drive on, the schools that we use, the departments that protect us - these are all the physical commons. And there are also the cultural commons - the stories we tell ourselves, our histories, our religions, and our notions of ourselves. And there are the commons of our power systems (in the majority of American communities), our health-care system (stolen from us and privatized over the past twenty-five years, our hospitals in particular used to be mostly nonprofit or run by mostly city or county governments), and the electronic commons of our radio and TV spectrum and the Internet."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/112407F.shtml



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