{"id":8529,"date":"2012-03-30T08:26:53","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T12:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=8529"},"modified":"2012-03-30T08:26:53","modified_gmt":"2012-03-30T12:26:53","slug":"in-detroit-promoting-active-citizenship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=8529","title":{"rendered":"in Detroit, promoting active citizenship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.clas.wayne.edu\/citizenship\/upload\/events_citizenship_032012_generations.php\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clas.wayne.edu\/citizenship\/upload\/_images\/events_citizenship_032012_generations.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"193\" height=\"140\" \/><\/a>(Detroit) I am here for a conference on &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.clas.wayne.edu\/citizenship\/upload\/events_citizenship_032012_generations.php\">Generations: Rethinking Age and Citizenship<\/a>.&#8221; In my keynote, I will try to argue that civic engagement, properly understood, is a solution to our grievous, chronic, &#8220;wicked&#8221; problems, the problems that national politicians, for all their alleged polarization and heated disagreement, almost <a href=\"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=7892\">all ignore<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Detroit is an appropriate place for that discussion because its population is about half what it was in 1950, the exodus compelled by a permanent closing of factories and the service industries that once supported factory workers. Detroit\u2019s high school dropout rate is 75%. Michigan incarcerates five times as many people as it did in 1973 and spends 20% of its state\u2019s general fund revenue on prisons. Detroit\u2019s traditional industry has contributed badly to global warming.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t happen to know the city but would always begin a serious analysis by looking for local assets and productive projects, rather than simply listing problems. I hear that many important positive experiments are underway here; <a href=\"http:\/\/declaredetroit.wordpress.com\/\">Declare Detroit<\/a> is an example.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Detroit) I am here for a conference on &#8220;Generations: Rethinking Age and Citizenship.&#8221; In my keynote, I will try to argue that civic engagement, properly understood, is a solution to our grievous, chronic, &#8220;wicked&#8221; problems, the problems that national politicians, for all their alleged polarization and heated disagreement, almost all ignore. Detroit is an appropriate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8529","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8529"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8568,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8529\/revisions\/8568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}