This Week
September 18th, 2006
Does democracy just mean formal elections and the right to choose among a range of consumer products? Not so, says Frances Moore Lappé. She calls this notion “Thin Democracy” and it’s failing because it leads to takeover by a narrow, self-interested minority. But a truer kind of democracy is rising: Living Democracy. It isn’t something done to us for us; it’s what we ourselves create. Join our conversation with Lappé for an inspiring conversation about her latest book, DEMOCRACY’S EDGE. She’ll be giving the keynote speech at the conference on Water Privatization: Global and Local Issues in the 21st Century at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst on Saturday, September 23, at1:00 pm.
Here’s a link to The Small Island Institute, co-founded by Lappé and her daughter, Anna.
Also, we talk with Pulitzer-prize winning poet, Maxine Kumin about how poetry helps us face both the pain and the joy of living in these deeply troubled times. She reads from her latest collection, JACK AND OTHER SELECTED POEMS. Kumin will be appearing at UMass’s Memorial Hall, along with poet Richard Wilbur, on Tuesday, October 3 at 7 pm.
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