"In effective, sustained citizen action, people learn the skills of public life with which to act effectively. "Commons," or the common wealth-the public goods that are objects of sustainable public action-become not only occasions for collaboration by invaluable sources of citizen education in their own right because they are the occasions for learning such skills."

You may also like:

• 

  Benjamin Barber
  Author

• 

  Moses Coady
  

• 

  Saul Alinsky
  Writer

• 

  Vin Weber
  

• 

  William Greider
  Journalist