Democracy Talk
Watch Frances' Talk on "The Real Crisis"
Watch
Frances' Speech at Porter Square Books, Cambridge, MA
Read 'E' editor on Frances' recent award
Read ‘Planet Earth Reviews’ review of Democracy’s Edge
Watch
Frankie present at the Uplift Academy, Wellesley, MA
Speaking Tour
Sunday, July 13th, 2008, 4:00PM
Keynote speech and booksigning
SolarFest 2008
Forget-Me-Not Farm, McNamara Road
Tinmouth, VT
Sunday, July 27th, 2008, 2:00 PM
Keynote speech and workshop
Kickapoo Country Fair
Organic Valley National Headquarters
One Organic Way
La Farge, WI
Democracy Makers
Check out The Future of Food, Deborah Koons Garcia's in-depth documentary about the controversy over genetically modified food.Anthony Lappé 's and Stephen Marshall's award-winning Iraq documentary Battleground is now available on DVD.
Buyer, Be Fair:The Promise of Product Certification will be shown at the Environmental Film Festival in Washington, DC on March 16th, 2006.
Stories from the Edge
Caffeinated Community Comeback: Small Ohio Town Discovers Power of Networking
An “Interpretation of Life” – The View from Emilia Romagna, Italy
Village Women Become their Own Bankers, Wowing the World of Finance
Citizens Play Key Role in Historic Health Care Reform Law
Breakthrough Concept "Responsibility" -- Imagine That!-- Becomes Law in Maine
The Sweet Taste
of Success: former Trade Center workers start employee-owned restuarant.
Education is
"A Process of Living and Not a Preparation for Future Living."
From Grief and Anger
to Food Power.
Citizens Speak Out
for Democracy in Media.
Democracy's Edge Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
The Path
Part I: Living on Democracy's Edge
Our journey to the edge and the forces making possible an invisible revolution of hope.
1. The Frame
2. The Long Arc
3. Power Is Not a Four-Letter Word
Part II: Democracy Growing Up
Outgrowing four beliefs that stymie us and discovering that power, even corporate power, isn't so stuck after all.
4. Our Coat
5. The Elephant
Part III: Democracy as a Verb
It's not what we have, it's what we do! Americans seize the rewards of self-direction.
6. Attention
7. Action
8. Choice
9. Voice
Part IV: Democracy in Our Bones
Americans create a culture of empowered, connected people.
10. Learning
11. Security
12. The
Invitation
Two Frames for Democracy
Toward a Language of Democracy
Notes
Entry Points for Living Democracy
The Author
-Cornel West
Professor, Princeton University
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