Nancy Hanks
- Industry: Non-Profit
- Location: New York : New York : United States
About Me
GEORGE WASHINGTON on the baneful effects of party: Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party, generally... The common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it... It serves always to distract the Public Councils, and enfeeble the Public Administration. It agitates the Community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms; kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection. It opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which find a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions. Thus the policy and the will of one country are subjected to the policy and will of another.
Interests
- I am a long-time activist in independent politics and community-building
- and the author of The Hankster
- a blog/news source for independent voters. The Hankster was started in April 2006
- during the midterm elections when independent voters led a successful anti-war electoral revolution. I am also a full-time grant-writer for an international homeless youth program and I volunteer as a fundraiser for the Committee for a Unified Independent Party (independentvoting.org). I am on the research staff of the Neo-Independent magazine. In October 2008
- I led a workshop at Performing the World
- a unique conference/ festival of performance activists from around the world
- called “Blogging the World: An Online Stage for Activists (Or Performatory Blogging for Everyone)”
- which will bring together bloggers and community activists to discuss blogging
- community-building and democracy.
My Blogs |
Team Members |
| Indie Castle | James Leroy Wilson Donald Kevin |
|---|---|
| The Hankster |
