{"id":5775,"date":"2009-09-17T10:24:57","date_gmt":"2009-09-17T10:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=5775"},"modified":"2014-05-08T09:54:15","modified_gmt":"2014-05-08T13:54:15","slug":"c-span-broadcasts-our-panel-on-the-obama-civic-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=5775","title":{"rendered":"C-SPAN broadcasts our panel on the Obama Civic Agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our Institute of Civic Studies last summer ended with a very spirited public debate about the Obama Administration&#8217;s Civic Agenda. Our &#8220;text&#8221; was candidate Barack Obama&#8217;s promise: &#8220;I will ask for your service and your active citizenship when I am President of the United States. This will not be a call issued in one speech or program; this will be a central cause of my presidency.&#8221; The questions we addressed included: What did Barack Obama mean? What <em>should <\/em>he have meant? What has the Administration done so far on this issue? What should it do? And what should <em>we <\/em>do? The speakers were:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.c-spanarchives.org\/videoLibrary\/showPicture.php?personid=53509&amp;width=96&amp;height=96\" alt=\"\" align=\"right\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Alan D. Solomont (keynote), Chair, Corporation for National and Community Service<\/li>\n<li>Harry Boyte, University of Minnesota<\/li>\n<li>Archon Fung, Harvard University<\/li>\n<li>Marshall Ganz, Harvard University<\/li>\n<li>Carolyn J. Lukensmeyer, President and Founder, AmericaSpeaks<\/li>\n<li>Xolela Mangcu, University of Johannesburg<\/li>\n<li>Carmen Sirianni, Brandeis UniversityC-SPAN (a US cable channel) recorded the event and aired it this morning. The full video and some transcribed text <a href=\"http:\/\/www.c-spanarchives.org\/program\/id\/210121\">is here<\/a>. (Unfortunately, C-SPAN&#8217;s video is not embeddable on my blog.) We hope to create a short, edited version of this program, which is more than two hours long.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Institute of Civic Studies last summer ended with a very spirited public debate about the Obama Administration&#8217;s Civic Agenda. Our &#8220;text&#8221; was candidate Barack Obama&#8217;s promise: &#8220;I will ask for your service and your active citizenship when I am President of the United States. This will not be a call issued in one speech [&hellip;]<\/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":[31,17,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio-and-video","category-barack-obama","category-civic-theory"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5775","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=5775"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13781,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5775\/revisions\/13781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}