Editing New World Alliance (section)

=== The organizing tour ===
[[File:Mark Satin in 1978.jpg|thumb |upright=1.0 |right |alt=Determined-looking young man against city skyline. |[[Mark Satin]] at the start on his 24-city organizing tour for the Alliance, Vancouver, Canada, 1978. (Photo by [[Erich Hoyt]].)]]

Organizing for the Alliance began in 1978, when author [[Mark Satin]] embarked on a two-year tour of North America.<ref name=Wells /><ref name=Lipnack /> Although the tour was initially designed to promote one of his books at conferences and other events, it quickly expanded into an effort to locate those who wanted to start a new political organization with a new political perspective.<ref name=Wells /> Satin told the authors of the book ''Networking'' that he traveled "systematically" to 24 cities and regions across the continent.  He was especially interested in finding people committed enough to want to fill out an extensive questionnaire about the future organization.<ref name=Lipnack /> According to one magazine, by the summer of 1979 Satin had traveled over 50,000 miles, mostly by [[Greyhound Lines|Greyhound bus]].<ref name=Wells />  He stopped when he found 500 people that were willing to answer the questionnaire.<ref name=Lipnack />