Harwood to discuss the people's retreat this week as a featured guest on 'A Public Voice'
Monday, May 1, 2006
(The Harwood Institute for Public Innovation)Rich Harwood will be featured as a community
expert on this week's annual taping of "A
Public Voice," an annual television program
shown on public television stations across the
country, where experts and political leaders
engage on a selected topic of national
importance.
This year's topic - "Democracy's Challenge"
- is based on the themes of Rich's latest book,
Hope Unraveled: The People's
Retreat and Our Way Back (Kettering
Foundation Press, 2005). Panelists will be
discussing why people have retreated from the
public square into their close-knit circles of
family and friends, and what we can do to
re-engage them.
Rich's findings in Hope Unraveled
suggest that people still very much want to
be connected and part of something larger than
themselves. They simply can't see a pathway
back into the public square, to begin
collectively addressing the problems of our
communities and nation.
"A Public Voice" is a Kettering Foundation
initiative, and this year coincides with
the 25th anniversary of their National Issues Forums. Forums
on Democracy's Challenge are taking place
across the country this year using conversation
guides the Foundation has produced.
The Harwood Institute will be helping to
arrange some of these forums in the communities
where we will be taking the Hope Unraveled
book tour this summer and fall. The first
will take place this week with a group of
citizens from Youngstown, Ohio, and others will
be scheduled soon.
If you are interested in having Rich Harwood
come to your community and speak about Hope
Unraveled and would like to organize a
forum to discuss how people can re-engage in
public life, please contact Mike
Wood at The Harwood Institute.
"A Public Voice" will be airing at select times on local public television stations across the country this summer and fall. Consult your local listings for more information.