New World Alliance | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 16/06/2019

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00:02:00 1 A "transformational" politics
00:02:33 1.1 Naming the Alliance's politics
00:03:35 1.2 Describing the Alliance's politics
00:06:39 2 History
00:06:48 2.1 The organizing tour
00:07:52 2.2 The questionnaire
00:09:18 2.3 "Governing Council"
00:11:23 2.4 Structure and process
00:12:52 2.5 Projects
00:13:05 2.5.1 Political platform
00:14:13 2.5.2 "Political Awareness Seminars"
00:15:10 2.5.3 "Consultations with Elected Officials"
00:16:20 2.5.4 National political newsletter
00:17:09 2.6 Restructuring and dissolution
00:17:42 3 Assessments
00:18:39 3.1 External critics
00:21:17 3.2 Internal critics
00:23:13 3.3 Positive views
00:24:27 4 Aftermath
00:29:17 5 See also



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The New World Alliance was an American political organization that sought to articulate and implement what it called "transformational" political ideas.  It was organized in the late 1970s and dissolved in 1983.  It has been described as the first U.S. national political organization of its type and as the first entity to articulate a comprehensive transformational political program.The Alliance maintained a national office two blocks from the White House.  It established chapters across the U.S., produced a 98-page political platform, conducted "Political Awareness Seminars" to help participants learn to communicate across ideological and psychological divides, initiated national "Consultations with Elected Officials," and produced a national political newsletter whose sponsors included Ecotopia author Ernest Callenbach and psychologist  Carl Rogers.
Over the decades, social scientists and others have sought to explain why the Alliance did not achieve a longer life.  There is no agreement.  Explanations have touched on history (the U.S. was not ready), culture (the Alliance was too counter-cultural), process (the commitment to near-unanimous consensus decision-making was too onerous), leadership (the people on the Governing Council did not have the personalities or skills to build a mass organization), transformational political assumptions and behaviors (said to be inappropriate, self-defeating, or cult-like), and more.Following the dissolution of the organization, many former Governing Council members and other founders of the Alliance – many near the beginning of their careers – took transformational ideas into a variety of organizational settings, including the early U.S. Green Party movement and the multinational corporate world.  Their organizational efforts and published political writings extended into the 21st century.