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Citizen Cop Out

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How would you organize a gathering of citizens to keep them from copping out?

 

 

Video by Peter Block. Home page photo: Jennifer Kumar

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John McKnight is emeritus professor of education and social policy and codirector of the Asset-Based Community Development Institute at DePaul University. He is the coauthor of Building Communities from the Inside Out and the author of The Careless Society. He has been a community organizer and serves on the boards of several national organizations that support neighborhood development.

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