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Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of the Left podcast.

This is a sample of our recent bonus episode, usually only available to members.

These episodes are comprised of our crew of researchers, Amanda and myself, all getting together for a roundtable discussion on topics that we find interesting.

So here's a few minutes for free so you can know what all the fuss is about.

We've been talking recently about the need to get involved in your community at the community level, not only to make positive change, but also for your personal mental health, because getting active and joining community are good for, you know, both you and society. And so today we thought

we would give some concrete examples, including joining food co-ops and contributing to community

fridges, study groups aimed at learning and teaching real history and civics in a time of book bans and mandated

lies in school and citizen assemblies being convened to tackle policy debates in, I was going

to say a brand new way, but it's not brand new. It's probably quite old, but, you know,

it's certainly not fresh in anyone's mind, but I think it's

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