E-News from Everyday Democracy (formerly the Study Circular)

Tuesday, July 08, 2008

Lessons from "Making Every Voice Matter" conference

Now listen to podcast interviews with conference attendees! Read more

Dialogue and deliberation program offers partial sponsorships

The Fielding Graduate University is now offering partial sponsorships to professionals who are interested in pursuing a graduate-level certificate program on the practice of dialogue and deliberation. Deadline to apply is July 15. Read more

We’re reading Sundown Towns and more at DemocracySpace

Join author James W. Loewen at 1 p.m. (EST) on July 23 to discuss his book Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism, and read and comment on a DemocracySpace post by Harold McDougall on Barack Obama's Democratic presidential bid opening up "the next chapter of the civil rights movement." Read more

Acknowledging white privilege

Kathryn Liss, a white woman living in Asheville, N.C., shares her struggles with racism and white privilege, and invites others to take part in the tough conversations needed to take action on racism. Read more

Lewiston, Maine, celebrates new youth and adult connections

Youth + Adults + Dialogue = Action (YADA) in Lewiston, Maine, celebrates the program's success in building youth and adult partnerships and creating new initiatives to get young people more involved in the community. Read more

Where will we be in 2020?

This is the question residents of the Pikes Peak region in Colorado Springs, Colo., are asking themselves as they launch "Dream City: Vision 2020," a new dialogue-to-change initiative giving everyone a role in shaping the community's future. Read more

Deliberating Michigan's future

While a recent survey finds that many Michiganders distrust their state government, more than 2,000 residents taking part in community conversations across the state have defined their hopeful vision for the state. Read more

Bloggers: Become democratic revolutionaries

Matt Leighninger, executive director of the Deliberative Democracy Consortium, challenges bloggers to be true “democratic revolutionaries” by tuning into what's happening on the ground in local politics, not just what is happening in the ether of the presidential campaign. Read more


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