Democracy Forum 8/13/12

Producer/Host: Ann Luther, League of Women Voters
Studio Engineer: Joel Mann

Issue: Participatory Democracy
Program Topic: Tea Party: What Can We Learn about Civic Engagement

Key Discussion Points:
a) the Tea Party movement, who are its members and what do they believe; and
b) the Tea Party’s impact on elections and governing,
c) what it means for civic participation

Guests:

-Theda Skocpol, Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology at Harvard University, http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/soc/faculty/skocpol
-Amy Fried, Professor of Political Science at the University of Maine, http://umaine.edu/polisci/faculty-and-staff/amy-fried/

Call In Program: No

Voices 7/13/10

Executive Producer/Host: Amy Browne

Contributors:  Lawrence Reichard, Larry Dansinger, Meaghan LaSalla, Norman Snowden

Lawrence Reichard brings us an update from Honduras, one year post-coup;  Larry Dansinger with an episode of “Outside the Box” re: finding common ground with the Tea Party movement, Meaghan LaSalla reports on an Earth First! protest of industrial wind in Maine; Norman Snowden with a vignette about life in Deer Isle in the 1950s