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Harry Boyte and Humphrey student, Hunter Gordon, discuss the MN United effort and the history of civic engagement in Minnesota.

Whatever happens in November, the MN United effort is a trailblazer. In a period of wide concern that we, as a people, are losing our ability to work across differences, citizen politics points to possibilities for regaining control over our collective destiny. This means revitalizing what can be called public experiences of work with different kinds of people, against the grain of a highly privatized and therapeutic culture when people post their most intimate secrets on Facebook, but have little sustained way of interaction with people who are very different

Huffington Post
August 9, 2012

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