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Jun. 18, 2025

True democracy requires collaboration

True democracy requires not domination or division, but humble, courageous collaboration across our differences.

Sidney Kanazawa

Mediator/Arbitrator, Attorney
ARC (Alternative Resolution Centers)

Email: skanazawa@arc4adr.com

USC Gould School of Law

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True democracy requires collaboration
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I walked between a line of Los Angeles Police Department officers brandishing their batons and a crowd of protesters berating those officers on Sunday, June 7.

It was a déjà vu moment for me.

More than 50 years ago, I was righteously yelling at cops during student protests against the Vietnam War. Like the current protesters, we held up signs and insisted on our First Amendment right to tell our governme...

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