Notes from the American Frontier
Thursday, September 29, 2005
(The Harwood Institute for Public Innovation)As Washington turns its attention from the
finger-pointing that followed the recent
hurricanes to the indictment of the Majority
Leader of the House of Representatives, it
becomes ever clearer that public life and
politics in the nation is in need of repair.
This week, Rich Harwood is engaging citizens in
one of the nationís fastest growing
communities, Las Vegas, about how we can join
together and create an alternate path for
public life and politics.
On Wednesday,
Rich Harwood discussed Hope Unraveled: The Peopleís
Retreat and Our Way Back and its
implications for the nation on "Face to Face,"
a political discussion program hosted by
award-winning journalist Jon Ralston. Video of Richís appearance will be
available through the showís Web site in the
coming days.
Thursday afternoon at
3:30, Rich will be speaking at the Clark County
Commission Chambers. All are invited to attend.
Also, be sure to look for an article by Craig
Anderson focusing on Rich and the work of The
Harwood Institute in the Thursday edition of
The Las Vegas Sun.
Join Us
on Our Way Back
You can use Hope
Unraveled to bring discussions of an alternate
path for public life to your own community. Click here to order your copy.
You can download the Hope Unraveled discussion
guide, complete with steps for setting up your
conversation, by clicking here. No proceeds
from the sale of Hope Unraveled go to Rich
Harwood or The Harwood Institute.
If you
are ready to take the first steps along an
alternate path, you can bring The Harwood
Institute to your community. Click here to learn
more.
You can also support our
efforts to build a common future by making a
donation to The Harwood Institute. Click here to offer your
support.
What Can I Do?
Many
of us realize that public life and politics is
broken in this country, but wonder, what can I
do to change course? In the latest entry on his
Redeeming Hope blog, Rich
Harwood addresses that very
question.
Harwood writes, ìDuring a
discussion last night here in Las Vegas, one
person asked me if I thought such change could
ever come about. I do. If you look back over
the course of American history, moments of
great change were always preceded by a
collection of smaller actions that set the
conditions ñ the right environment ñ to
galvanize larger change.î
Click here to read more about what
you can do, and to respond in the comments
section.
Please feel free to forward
this message to any friends or associates who
believe we can do better as individuals and as
a nation.