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I would argue our best long-term hope of improving our national system is for more and more local communities to build up robust and productive deliberative systems, to the point that people see the viability and positive impacts of the deliberative alternative, build up their skills to engage each other, and re-establish their trust in each other and key institutions.
The goal of a deliberative community is an ideal—we are working toward a “more perfect” union, recognizing we will never reach perfection.
Free turkey meals were flying out the door Thanksgiving morning at St. Mary’s Church in Freeport. Four years ago, the parish began cooking, packaging and giving away Thanksgiving Day turkey meals with all the trimmings. It’s a no-strings-attached outreach — just a free hot meal on America’s day of giving
Dick Potter has been delivering food for the Highlands Meals on Wheels for more than three decades — about a third of his life. At 93, Potter reports three times a week to the kitchen at Citizens Hose firehall in Harrison to package food and hit the road for distribution
"To be truly impactful, any such coalition should be built to put the people and communities most affected in decision-making roles and also focus on policy and systems change."