democracy

FREE SPEECH ZONE | Ahmed Tharwat on the Arab Spring and Occupy Minnesota

By Jeff Strate, Free Speech Zone

BelAhdan (Comcast Cable and the Minnesota Channel) host Ahmed Tharwat shares his perspective on the democratic themes that have prompted the “Arab Spring” revolutions in the Mideast and th

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John Dewey Center for Democracy & Education - Roundtable Discussion

11/16/2011 - 4:00pm - 5:30pm

John Dewey’s seminal work Democracy and Education was published almost 100 years ago, but his critical ideas are crucially relevant today.

FREE SPEECH ZONE | Keith Ellison- The Debate That Never Was

By MichaelCavlan, Free Speech Zone

Last night at the Urban League in north Minneapolis a funny thing happened.

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FREE SPEECH ZONE | Immigrants = Economic Assets

By Andrea Grazzini Walstrom, Free Speech Zone

How proposed linguistic isolationism would stunt growth and values

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Celebrating settlement houses—and Jane Addams

By Tom O Connell

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of Jane Addam's masterpiece, Twenty Years at Hull House. The book, never out of print, has achieved a kind of iconic status in American letters, perhaps more celebrated than understood.  Until the past decade or so, the same could be said about Jane Addams.

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Dissent and democracy

By Sue Ann Martinson, Free Speech Zone
Remember the Boston Tea Party? That was property damage, wasn’t it? All that tea overboard?MORE »
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