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Five Big Ideas We Should Be Talking About (including closing some prisons)

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Published on OurFuture.org (http://www.ourfuture.org) Five Big Ideas We Should Be Talking About By Sara Robinson Created 02/04/2009 - 1:19am http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2009020604/five-big-ideas-we-should-be-talking-about Summary: This is a moment for a big vision, painted in bold strokes. We need our own shelf full of challenging new ideas that will shake up people's assumptions, change the terms of the discussion, and expand the country's ideas about what's possible in this unique moment. Here are five Big Ideas we can use to get started. Most progressives understand by now that the battle over the stimulus is, at heart, a philosophical debate over whether we're going to continue with 30 years of failed conservative economic policies, or chart a new direction for the country's future, built on an economics that's grounded in investment in the common good...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on February 08, 2009 (boomark / email).