"An embryonic sign . . ."

Sociologist Fred Perella, author of Poverty in American Democracy, former Co-Director of the Office of Urban Affairs of the Archdiocese of Hartford, and one of the godfathers of the NVP, noted prophetically in the mid-1980s that America’s economic difficulties were already causing pain...

    "But it's nothing like the pain they are going to cause in the next twenty years.  If we don't develop communitarian and collaborative ways of dealing with these problems, there's going to be a lot more pain.  I think the Naugatuck Valley Project is an embryonic sign of what has to develop in the future on a much broader basis for this society to survive and be strong." 

    - Fred Perella