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Like an IKEA manual without words: San Jose activist helps residents navigate government
ELLINA YIN COMPARES CITIZEN PARTICIPATION in local government to putting together a piece of IKEA furniture using one of those frustrating assembly manuals that have no words. A self-trained community educator and activist, Yin wants to be the Allen wrench, that little L-shaped hex key in almost every IKEA box, to connect people with their […] The post Like an IKEA manual without words: San Jose activist helps residents navigate government appeared first on Local News Matters .
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According to Local News Matters’s source item, Like an IKEA manual without words: San Jose activist helps residents navigate government, ELLINA YIN COMPARES CITIZEN PARTICIPATION in local government to putting together a piece of IKEA furniture using one of those frustrating assembly manuals that have no words. A self-trained community educator and activist, Yin wants to be the Allen wrench, that little L-shaped hex key in almost every IKEA box, to connect people with their […] The post Like an IKEA manual without words: San Jose activist helps residents navigate government appeared first on Local News Matters .
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