Democracy Forum 2/20/26: Constitutional Crisis: What Does Civic Courage Look Like?

About this episode

The episode discusses civic courage and community solidarity in the face of stress, featuring insights from various guests.

Host: Ann Luther, League of Women Voters of Maine Production Assistance: Linda Washburn, Joel Mann Democracy Forum: Participatory Democracy, encouraging citizens to take an active role in government and politics. This month: We’ll talk about how civic courage and neighborliness create solidarity under stress. How are communities under pressure holding it together? — in Minneapolis, in Maine, and in other communities around the country. What do we have in common with pro-democracy resistance movements around the world? Guest/s: Oliver Kaplan, Associate Professor, Josef Korbel School of Global and Public Affairs, University of Denver, Visiting Scholar, Stanford University, Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law. Amy DeBeck, Minister, Unitarian Universalist Church of Castine. Julia Edwards, SoPo Helps Mutual Aid Network. To learn more about this topic: Visit LWVME.org About the host: Ann Luther currently serves as Treasurer of the League of Women Voters of Maine and leads the LWVME Advocacy Team. She served as President of LWVME from 2003 to 2007 and as co-president from 2007-2009. The post Democracy Forum 2/20/26: Constitutional Crisis: What Does Civic…

People in this episode

Host: Ann Luther

Guests: Oliver Kaplan, Amy DeBeck, Julia Edwards

Topics covered

• civic courage
• participatory democracy
• community solidarity
• pro-democracy movements

Keywords

• constitutional crisis
• neighborliness
• solidarity under stress

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Democracy Forum 2/20/26: Constitutional Crisis: What Does Civic Courage Look Like?

Places: Minneapolis, Maine

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