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 27th, 2008, 2:00 PM
Keynote speech and workshop
Kickapoo Country Fair
Organic Valley National Headquarters
One Organic Way
La Farge, WI
Friday, September 5th, 2008, time TBD
Visiting Speaker
Albuquerque Academy
Simms Auditorium
6400 Wyoming Boulevard, NE
Albuquerque, NM
Democracy Makers
Tools for Learning and Action
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.
Recommended E-Newsletters
Center for Informed Food Choices
Links to Democracy Makers
Bioneers
American Independent Business Alliance (AMIBA)
Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE)
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.
Lappé's
2006 book Democracy's Edge exposes the threat of thin
democracy, reframes the meaning of democracy, and gives us just what we
need to get on with creating a real one.
early praise
educators’
comments
& curricular materials
Part I: Living on Democracy's
Edge
Our journey to the edge and the forces making possible an invisible
revolution of hope.
Chapter One: The Frame
discovering democracy’s power
Chapter Two: The Long Arc
tracing democracy’s journey
Chapter Three: Power is Not a Four-Letter Word
reframing the big ideas that stop us
Part II: Democracy Growing
Up
Outgrowing four beliefs that stymie us and discovering that power,
even corporate power, isn't so stuck after all.
Chapter Four: Our Coat
new times, new measures
Chapter Five: The
Elephant
corporate power and the shape we give it
New featured
story: Land Stewardship
New featured story:
Food Power
New featured story:
Food Power
Important related news: Democracy Unlimited - Daniel McLeod Interviews Kaitlin Sopoci-Belknap (Z Magazine Online)
Part III: Democracy as a Verb
It's not what we have, it's what we do! Americans seize the rewards of self-direction.
Chapter Six: Attention
economics & everyday life
New featured story
Chapter Seven: Action
politics and the inauguration of the citizen
New featured story
Related Lappé
writings
Chapter Eight: Choice
the myth of choice and the taste of democracy
New featured story:
Food Power
New featured story: Coke & University of Michigan
New featured
story: Land Stewardship
Chapter Nine: Voice
the debasement of the media and the sound of democracy
New featured story
Related Lappé writings
Part IV: Democracy
in Our Bones
Americans create a culture of empowered, connected people.
Chapter Ten: Learning
sharing power and apprenticing democracy
New featured story
Chapter Eleven:
Security
the exclusion illusion and the power of connection
Related Lappé
writings
Chapter Twelve: The Invitation
finding ourselves in democracy’s walk
-Howard Zinn
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