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Lorelei Kelly and Mónica Inés Espíndola: Two More Takes on Courageous Citizenship

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Two very different approaches to improving democracy, but both are innovative examples of courageous citizenship -- one in practice, the other in theory, aspiring to become the practice of all of us.

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Colleague, News, and Opinion Links for the Week of August 16, 2026

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It is harder and harder to find good news these days--but we try, while still giving you the important news we must know.

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Harry Boyte: Civic Organizing Beyond Advocacy, Protest, and Community Organizing -- Part 1

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Public work is an approach to democracy and civic engagement that is fundamentally different from advocacy, and is a much more powerful way, not only, to get things done, but to improve oneself and one's community in the process.

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Harry Boyte -- Civic Organizing: Beyond Advocacy, Protest, and Community Organizing - Part 2

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Part Two of Harry Boyte's description of how public work and civic organizing differ from advocacy, and why it is much more effective and powerful. Here he explains how it is better than "technocracy"-- rule by experts.

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David Eisner: Citizenship Under Friendly Fire Installment 3 -- Taking Common Aim

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David Eisner suggests we navigate his faultlines by making two mind shifts: receiving those who oppose our approach as "the loyal opposition," and saving our fire for the fight that warrants it. And we know how to do this.

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Oluwagbemiga Dasylva -- Before Institutions Fail: Civic Fragmentation as an Early Warning of Hyper-Polarization

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Both hyper-polarization and institutional failure a can reflect the same deeper problem: people losing the capacity to work through conflict, exercise agency, and shape public life together.

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David Eisner: Installment Two -- Who is the Enemy?

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Part Two of David' Eisners essay on Citizenship Under Friendly Fire, this time looking at who gets included, who gets kept out; whose knowledge counts, whose doesn’t and how these decisions can undermine the work we all are trying to do.

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