Editing New World Alliance (section)

=== "Governing Council" ===
[[File:Kirk Sale and Bob Olson.jpg|thumb|upright=1.15 |right |alt=Five happy-looking people at a lawn party. |GC chairperson Bob Olson (second from right) was a project director at the U.S. [[Office of Technology Assessment]].<ref name=GC />  GC member [[Kirkpatrick Sale]] (center) was a [[Neo-Luddism|Neo-Luddite]] theorist.<ref>Steven Jones, ''Against Technology: From the Luddites to Neo-Luddism'', Routledge, 2006, pp.&nbsp;23–24.  {{ISBN|978-0-415-97868-2}}.</ref>]]

The questionnaire determined that a 39-member board of directors, called the Governing Council (GC), should be chosen to run the Alliance.  In addition, it determined that the GC should be chosen from among the questionnaire-answerers themselves.  Eighty-nine of them volunteered to stand for the GC, and the first 39 GCers were chosen by a variety of means: 40% by mail ballot, 30% by lottery, 20% by Satin (who'd met the questionnaire-answerers during his bus tour), and 10% by four women.<ref name=Lipnack />

The selection process produced a diverse GC.  A political scientist pointed to "teachers, feminists, think-tank members."<ref name=Stein />  A journalist called attention to a [[Ronald Reagan]] speechwriter, a former [[Robert F. Kennedy]] speechwriter, a corporate vice-president, and a spiritual teacher.<ref name=Cox>Ted Cox, "New Age People: Alternative to Militarism," ''The Churchman'', August–September 1980, p.&nbsp;7.</ref> A spokesperson for the Alliance touted "a co-author of the [[Pentagon Papers]]" as well as "several people from the erstwhile counterculture."<ref>Olson, "New World," p.&nbsp;14.</ref>

In 1980, the 39 GC members included [[James Benson|Jim Benson]], [[Clement Bezold]], [[Lex Hixon]], [[Miller Hudson]], [[John McClaughry]], [[Corinne McLaughlin]], [[Kirkpatrick Sale]], [[Mark Satin]], [[Utne Reader#History|Eric Utne]], Robert Buxbaum of the [[New York City Council|Office of the New York City Council President]], Jeff Cox of the [[The Rodale Institute|Rodale Institute]], Leonard Duhl of [[UC Berkeley]], Bethe Hagens of [[Governors State University]], Donald Keys of the [[World Federalism|World Federalists]], James Ogilvy of [[SRI International]], Bob Olson of the [[Office of Technology Assessment|Office of Technology Assessment of the U.S. Congress]], James Turner of ''[[The Chemical Feast]]'', Gail Whitty of the [[National Organization for Women|NOW-Detroit]] board of directors, Malon Wilkus of the [[Federation of Egalitarian Communities]], and Rarihokwats, founder of ''Akwesasne Notes'' newspaper from the [[Akwesasne|Mohawk Nation at Akwesasne]].<ref name=GC>"New World Alliance Governing Council, 1980–1981," in New World Alliance, ''[http://www.radicalmiddle.com/Platform2.pdf A Transformation Platform: The Dialogue Begins]'', New World Alliance publication, 1981, p.&nbsp;98.  Booklet, no ISBN assigned.</ref>{{refn|This list of Governing Council members and their organizational affiliations is drawn entirely from the "Governing Council" page of the Alliance's political platform.<ref name=GC /> No other source was used.  It is a selective list, consisting of all GC members that have biographies on Wikipedia, and most GCers whose then-current affiliations – clearly stated on the "Governing Council" page – were to organizations with articles now on Wikipedia.  To be the subject of a Wikipedia article, individuals and organizations must meet certain criteria; see [[WP:Notability]].|group=nb}}  Besides being on the GC, Olson served as chairperson of the Alliance.<ref name=Olson />