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Join the Russell Forum for a community forum on the historical crisis of American slavery, on Friday, April 27th from 3:30-5:00PM. With the help of trained neutral moderators, participants will weigh several approaches faced by Americans in 1854 for contending with slavery and its future in the United States and look closely at the values underlying these historical approaches. The group will

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Do you want to encourage dialogue and deliberation in your community or organization? The Russell Forum for Civic Life in Georgia is happy to announce that the National Issues Forums Institute is offering grants in support of deliberative forums work in honor of Taylor Willingham. Taylor Willingham was a pioneer in the public engagement field and in National Issues Forums (NIF) work, including

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How Should We Deal with the National Debt? (a question so important, we're talking about it twice!)An Oconee Community Forum ConversationBrought to you by the Russell Forum for Civic Life in Georgia When: Sunday, November 13, 2011 -- 3:00-5:00 p.m.Where: Oconee Public Library Auditorium, 1080 Experiment Station Rd. Watkinsville, GeorgiaAccording to Congressional Budget Office, the federal

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The $184,000 QuestionWhat: Russell Forum for Civic Life in Georgia and University Housing Host Campus Community Forum on the National DebtWhen: November 15, 2011 -- 6:30-8:30 p.m.Where: Multipurpose Room, Building 1516If you’ve got federal direct aid, you know how much you owe the government in student loans; and chances are you’ve heard talk about the national debt in the last few years. But

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After a short break, the Russell Forum for Civic Life in Georgia is back in action for 2011 and will be rolling out an engaging array of programs and training for the year ahead! Beginning in February and running through 2012, Russell Forum plans to offer forums in venues in the Athens area that focus on the economy, education and the job market, and polarization and politics. We are also

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Fed up with politics and a widening partisan divide?Frustrated by the lack of civility in public conversation?Feel like a spectator rather than a participant in politics?What has gone wrong? What should we do about it?RUSSELL FORUM FOR CIVIC LIFE IN GEORGIA presents...Democracy's Challenge: How can we reclaim our public role? When: November 19, 2010, 3:30-5:00 p.m.Where: Russell Library

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RUSSELL FORUM FOR CIVIC LIFE IN GEORGIA presents...Friday Informal Community ForumTopic: Who is College for?Date: October 22, 2010Time: 3:30-5:00 p.m.Location: Russell Library Auditorium, West Entrance, Main Library, UGA campusFree! Exercise for your Civic Muscle!Russell Forum for Civic Life in Georgia (www.libs.uga.edu/russell/rfclg), a civic engagement program of the Russell Library hosts

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RUSSELL FORUM FOR CIVIC LIFE IN GEORGIA presents…What is the 21st Century Mission for Our Public Schools?September 24, 2010, 3:00-5:00 p.m.Russell Library Auditorium, UGARussell Forum for Civic Life in Georgia, a civic engagement program of the Russell Library hosts community deliberative forums on a monthly basis to explore challenging public issues in a deliberative, civil way.About this month’

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Just a reminder! August's informal forum event will take place this Friday, August 27th from 3-5PM at the Russell Library. This month’s discussion takes up the challenging issue of sprawl in American communities. (Sprawl is the term used to describe dispersed development outside of compact urban and village centers along highways and in rural countryside.) Across the country, American

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How easy is it to have a conversation about race and ethnicity on a college campus? Do people always hold themselves back from expressing real opinions on this difficult topic for fear of insulting others? Or can they express themselves fully, even at the risk of a heated discussion over core values? On Thursday, August 5th moderators Jill Severn and Jan Levinson from the Russell Forum for Civic

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On Wednesday, April 21st coordinators from the Russell Forum for Civic Life in Georgia met with graduate students interested in nutrition and health promotion at the University of Georgia for a discussion on childhood obesity. Nine students, two professors, and two moderators gathered in the conference room of the Gerontology Center to discuss the NIF issue guide “Weighing the Options: How Can We

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What Does National Security Mean in the 21st Century? A Deliberative Discussion of America’s Role in the WorldWhat does “national security” mean in the 21st century? And how do we, citizens of the United States, think our elected leaders should go about securing our nation? Does the answer lie in strengthening the military or balancing the budget? Or perhaps it’s a question of our active

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Latest RFCLG informal forum on the New Science of Food: Facing up to Our Biotechnology ChoicesThe Russell Forum for Civic Life in Georgia hosted its monthly informal forum on Friday, February 19, 2010 at 3 p.m. at the Russell Library on the UGA Campus. A group of students, faculty, and staff from the University of Georgia, as well as some members of the Athens community, gathered to deliberate

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On Friday, January 15th the Russell Forum for Civic Life in Georgia hosted the third event in its informal forum series. Fifteen participants, two moderators, and one recorder gathered in the Russell Library Auditorium to discuss the NIF issue guide “The New Challenges of American Immigration.” In the opening moments of the forum moderators asked the group what brought them to attend the

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Work-Life Balance: A Matter of Policy and Philosophy Policy and attitudes related to balancing work with quality of life were the focus of the Russell Forum for Civic Life in Georgia’s December informal Forum on Friday afternoon. Led by new moderators Monica Pereira and Pat Priest, the group of 12 participants used the Lattice Group’s deliberative issue guide to consider three approaches to

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The Deliberative Democracy Consortium (DDC) is an organization invested in creating a "movement to promote and institutionalize deliberative democracy at all levels of governance in the United States and around the world." Below, Matt Leighninger, Executive Director of the DDC, gives a quick overview of online deliberative town hall meetings that have taken place with Members of Congress across

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Against a backdrop of fractious town hall meetings across the US on health care -- where guns, shoving, shouting, and fury overwhelmed clear discussion and understanding of the issues on more than one occasion -- two groups of diverse citizens gathered in Tifton, Georgia to deliberate a range of approaches to tackling the problems of the current health care system with great vigor and

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Last week, the RFCLG team spent two days in Tifton, Georgia – moderating two forums at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College, using the NIF issue guide “Coping with the Cost of Healthcare: How Can We Pay for What We Need?” And in reviewing our notes from these two events, I have a feeling that this may take longer to blog about…so here is something to consider in the meantime.At each of our public

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Russell Forum for Civic Life in Georgia staff will hit the road at the end of the month to moderate two forums in Tifton, Georgia on health care policy. The moderating team of Jill Severn, Jan Levinson, and Margaret Holt are traveling to Tifton on September 29 and 30th at the invitation of the Tift County Republican and Democratic parties and Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College’s Political

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The Russell Forum for Civic Life in Georgia announces the launch of its new website!To find out more about RFCLG, visit: http://www.libs.uga.edu/russell/rfclg/If you want to learn more about moderating and framing issues, consider registering for the 2009 Public Policy Institute, to be held October 15-16th at the Russell Library.Or, find us on Facebook!Post by Jan Levinson, Coordinator, Russell

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