Archive for August 29th, 2008
A new profile on Frances has been posted on Voice of America. The piece, titled “American Activist Promotes Democracy Worldwide,” can be read — or downloaded as an audio file — 
“Getting a Grip” now in Korean
admin August 29th, 2008
From KBS Culture News:
Frances Moore Lappe, social change activist and winner of the 1987 Right Livelihood Award (referred to as the “alternate Nobel Prize”), tells the story of a “living” democracy that could change the world in her book, “Getting a Grip: Clarity, Creativity, and Courage in a World Gone Mad.”
Lappe states that a system of elected governments and market economies is a “Thin Democracy,” or a democracy that is incompetent. [Read the rest here.]
