We’re on fire. Covering election 2008 gives those of us at Pop + Politics a chance to reach people in new ways with the news we need right now.

Since we launched PopandPolitics.com in 1995 (and yes, that is about a billion years go in internet time), the game has changed. There are literally millions of blogs now. And information wants to be free. We blogs cross-link to each other and quote each other. How about sharing even more information?

Well, we’re ready. As a special project of our Election 2008 coverage, Pop and Politics is offering an entire book download free of charge. It’s called “Trust: Reaching the 100 Million Missing Voters,” and it was written in 2004 by Pop and Politics founder Farai Chideya. The information is, if anything, more timely today, as we see the fruition of movements to get more young voters, non-voters, and first-time voters into the political mix.

What does “Trust” cover? Well, do you want to know how the two-party system evolved? Why independent parties are at a disadvantage in that system? Why millions of people don’t vote? How hip hop politics evolved? How young Americans can revolutionize the system? It’s all in there.

AND IT’S YOURS.

This book is yours now. As long as you are a non-profit or a non-commercial blog, you can print any part (or all of) “Trust,” or: distribute it, post it on your site, excerpt it, or put parts of into other works like voter-registration packets. If you’re a commercial publisher or blog, you can do the same thing… but you have send us an email and ask permission first.

How can we give the book away for free online? The publishers, Soft Skull Press, gave us permission to release the book under a Creative Commons License. Creative Commons is an amazing project that allows books, art, and information to be free, with the permission of the people who created it.

That’s it. THIS IS YOURS.

We are posting the six main chapters of “Trust” over the course of the Democratic and Republican Conventions, and the material will remain online for your use indefinitely.

Re-Mix, Re-Use, Re-Define the Game.

CHAPTER ONE:
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CHAPTER TWO:
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CHAPTER THREE:
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CHAPTER FOUR:
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CHAPTER FIVE:
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CHAPTER SIX:
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“Trust: Reaching the 100 Million Missing Voters” by Farai Chideya is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License

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