{"id":4455,"date":"2004-05-10T09:47:43","date_gmt":"2004-05-10T09:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=4455"},"modified":"2004-05-10T09:47:43","modified_gmt":"2004-05-10T09:47:43","slug":"the-september-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=4455","title":{"rendered":"the September Project"},"content":{"rendered":"

The September Project<\/a> is a great idea for promoting public deliberation. Libraries across the country will hold public discussions on the third anniversary of the 9-11 attacks. The library systems <\/i>that have already signed up are shown on this map<\/a>. Here’s an overall description of the project, written by its organizers:<\/p>\n

On September 11, 2004, citizens across the U.S. will come together at their local libraries to discuss ideas that matter to all of us. Through<\/p>\n

talks, debates, roundtables, and performances, citizens will share ideas<\/p>\n

about democracy, citizenship, and patriotism. What better way to spend<\/p>\n

September 11th, recently designated “Patriot Day,” than by participating<\/p>\n

collectively, thinking creatively, and becoming a part of the<\/p>\n

well-informed voice of the American citizenry?<\/p>\n

Public libraries provide all citizens open and free access to information.<\/p>\n

Almost all communities in the US have at least one library. There are over<\/p>\n

16,000 public libraries in the US, and that’s not including university<\/p>\n

libraries, K-12 libraries, and church libraries. In other words, libraries<\/p>\n

constitute an impressive national infrastructure. Moreover, 96% of public<\/p>\n

libraries have computer technology that can serve to connect events across<\/p>\n

the nation, thereby constituting a national and distributed media<\/p>\n

infrastructure. In this way, the September Project will foster a national<\/p>\n

conversation with, for, and by the people.<\/p>\n

The September Project has three goals:<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

1) To coordinate with all libraries — big and small, urban and rural —<\/p>\n

to host free and public events on September 11;<\/p>\n

2) To work with all forms of media — mainstream and alternative;<\/p>\n

corporate and independent; print, radio, film, and digital — to foster<\/p>\n

and sustain public discourse about issues that matter;<\/p>\n

3) To foster an annual tradition for citizens around the world to<\/p>\n

recognize and give meaning to September 11th.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

The aim of The September Project is to create a day of engagement, a day<\/p>\n

of community, a day of democracy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The September Project is a great idea for promoting public deliberation. Libraries across the country will hold public discussions on the third anniversary of the 9-11 attacks. The library systems that have already signed up are shown on this map. Here’s an overall description of the project, written by its organizers: On September 11, 2004, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deliberation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}