Real Democracy: Tim Kipp and Friends

REAL DEMOCRACY 

with Tim Kipp and friends

Brattleboro Democracy Forum 

at Brooks Memorial Library 

 and on Zoom

6:30 pm, Tuesday, April 12th, 2022,

The meeting will be recorded and will air on BCTV and WVEW-FM

The meeting at the library will be in the Community Meeting Room located on the 2^nd floor, just inside the rear entrance from the Municipal Center parking lot.  

To join the Zoom meeting click on this URL on the 12th:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84518553496?pwd=NldqT093NWxxUWxIVWR2N0V5NkQ4UT09

Tim says:

The United States is in a crisis of two nations.  Economic instability, racial reckoning, a lingering pandemic and rising authoritarianism divide Americans by a gulf not experienced since the Civil War.

Underlying this disunion are conflicting concepts of what democracy actually is or should be. The old consensus is crumbling. Today for some, physically attacking the nation’s capitol makes sense, for others, making it harder for people to vote is a democratic act. 

On the other hand many still believe in citizen responsibility in the political process. For these people government and community organizing for social justice is what democracy looks like. 

Our future can and will be charted by how we conceptualize democracy itself. Understanding, expanding and sustaining democracy can perhaps lead to a bridging of this not so grand canyon of national divide.

This presentation focuses on the nature of democracy and offers a re conceptualization of this greatest of human inventions.

Tim Kipp is a retired history and political science teacher of 39 years and a political activist since the 1960s.

Marlboro Resident and musician Jesse Lepkoff will sing the marching song “We Are Marching For Democracy” to open the meeting.

The WE CELEBRATE DEMOCRACY CIVIL RIGHTS FOR ALL Main Street banner will be hung at the library

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 Positive Nonviolent public action for democracy and civil rights 

for all people- 802 258 7045