newsletter publisher, best known for contributing to three political
perspectives – neopacifism in the 1960s, New Age politics in the
1970s and 1980s, and radical centrism in the 1990s and 2000s. After
emigrating to Canada at the age of 20 to avoid serving in the Vietnam
War, Satin co-founded the Toronto Anti-Draft Programme to assist war
resisters in Canada, and wrote the Manual for Draft-Age Immigrants to
Canada (1968), which sold nearly 100,000 copies. His book New Age
Politics (1978) described an emerging culture focused on simple living,
decentralism, and global responsibility, and he expanded these themes in
the political newsletter New Options (1984–92). He also co-drafted the
foundational statement of the U.S. Green Party, "Ten Key Values", in
1984. After a period of political disillusion, Satin launched a new
political newsletter and wrote Radical Middle (2004). Both projects
criticized political partisanship and sought to promote mutual learning
across social and cultural divides, but the book was not warmly received
by many on the traditional left or right of the American political
spectrum.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Satin>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
475:
Basiliscus became Byzantine Emperor after Zeno was forced to
flee Constantinople.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basiliscus>
1857:
A 7.9 Mw earthquake ruptured part of the San Andreas Fault in
California and was felt as far east as Las Vegas.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1857_Fort_Tejon_earthquake>
1923:
Lithuanian residents of the Memel Territory rebelled against
the League of Nations decision to leave the area as a mandated region
under French control.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaip%C4%97da_Revolt>
1972:
Seawise University, formerly RMS Queen Elizabeth, an ocean
liner which sailed the Atlantic Ocean for the Cunard White Star Line,
was destroyed by fire in Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Queen_Elizabeth>
2005:
Mahmoud Abbas was elected President of the Palestinian National
Authority to replace Yasser Arafat, who died in 2004.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmoud_Abbas>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
carpe diem:
Seize the day, make the most of today, enjoy the present.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/carpe_diem>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
That's what I consider true generosity. You give your all, and
yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
--Simone de Beauvoir
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Simone_de_Beauvoir>
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