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The fight for the future of media policy in the United States rages on. One controversial bill, the dreaded COPE Act, was…
Mitchell Szczepanczyk
Mitchell Szczepanczyk is a software developer, media producer, political activist, aspiring polyglot, degree-holding linguist, and game show aficionado. He has written two e-books, and contributed to the books Real Utopia and Democratic Economic Planning.
Mitchell has been involved with groups working on the heterodox economic model known as a "participatory economy"; he co-founded CAPES, the Chicago Area Participatory Economics Society, and has organized events with CAPES. He is currently helping to develop computational models of a participatory economy.
A son of Polish immigrants and a native of Michigan (USA), he makes his home in Chicago where he has lived since 1996.
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