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Doing Democracy Differently: Teaching Deliberative Democracy in the Secondary Classroom – March 11-12, 2023

Posted on January 20, 2023 by richwbrown

On March 11 & 12, 2023, the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College (New York) and Democracy Without Elections (DWE), a member-run nonprofit organization in the US that promotes the use of randomly selected deliberative bodies, are offering a course to teachers for recertification credit called Doing Democracy Differently: Teaching Deliberative Democracy in the Secondary Classroom.

This college level training course for high school educators to be held in New York City will encourage teachers to include the study of randomly selected bodies and other democratic reform initiatives in their secondary school civics curriculum. The hope is that the course will both raise awareness in high schoolers of new democratic tools and fuel their active participation in future democratic reform.

The DWE Education Group has for the last year been exploring ways to initiate young people into the movement advocating for deliberative democracy, citizens’ assemblies, democratic lotteries, and other randomly selected deliberative bodies. Recently, the committee received a $10,000 grant earmarked for tuition support for teachers enrolling in this training course. They also have been searching for partners and reached out to Stanford University, Bard College, and Colorado State University, who all have strong connections to the democratic reform movement. The goal was to find an academic host for the training course who could offer college credit to interested teachers as well as connections to large numbers of potential participants.
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Meeting: Sunday, October 23, 2022 – International Network of Sortition Advocates

Posted on October 17, 2022 by richwbrown

The International Network of Sortition Advocates will have our next meeting on, Sunday, October 23, 2022, at 19:00 GMT (London) [20:00 Europe, 21:00 Israel, 14:00 EST (2:00 PM), 6:00 AED].

The meeting will be held on our Discord platform. You must register on the app to attend the meeting. Here is your Discord invitation: https://discord.gg/6sgnrphp6w.

Once you have completed registration, to join the meeting:

Navigate to the heading “Talekanaler” on the left side of your screen (it’s before the “Linguistic Regions”)
Click on: “🔊General”
Click on: “Video

*Please note our desire to keep the meetings to a maximum of 1-hour in length.

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Meeting: Thursday, September 22, 2022 – International Network of Sortition Advocates

Posted on September 13, 2022 by richwbrown

The International Network of Sortition Advocates will have our next meeting on, Thursday, September 22, 2022, at 19:00 GMT [20:00 Europe, 21:00 Israel, 14:00 EST (2:00 PM), 6:00 AED].

The meeting will be held on our Discord platform. You must register on the app to attend the meeting. If you’re interested in registering on on the Discord platform and attending the upcoming meeting contact: Rich Brown at rbrowncmt@yahoo.com.

*Please note our desire to keep the meetings to a maximum of 1-hour in length.

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Meeting: Sunday, August 21, 2022 – International Network of Sortition Advocates

Posted on August 8, 2022 by richwbrown

The International Network of Sortition Advocates will have our next meeting on, Sunday, August 21, 2022, at 19:00 GMT [20:00 Europe, 21:00 Israel, 14:00 EST (2:00 PM), 6:00 AED].

*Please note our desire to keep the meetings to a maximum of 1-hour in length.

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Meeting: Saturday, July 16, 2022 – International Network of Sortition Advocates

Posted on July 2, 2022 by richwbrown

The International Network of Sortition Advocates will have our next meeting on, Saturday, July 16, 2022, at 15:00 GMT [16:00 Europe, 17:00 Israel, 10:00 AM US EDT, 2:00 Australia AEDT].

*Please note our desire to keep the meetings to a maximum of 1-hour in length.

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Meeting Wednesday, May 18th, 2022 – International Network of Sortition Advocates

Posted on May 6, 2022 by richwbrown

The International Network of Sortition Advocates (INSA) will have its next meeting Wednesday, May 18, 2022 at 20:00 GMT [21:00 Europe, 22:00 Israel, 15:00 EST (3:00 PM), 7:00 AEDT].

Please note the new day of the week, date, and times!

Google Meets Link to join meeting: https://meet.google.com/odm-nskw-ozy

Agenda Items Include:

Announcement notice of INSA online platform
Engaging participants without over burdening them
Continued discussion of organization goals
Team building activity proposal

*Please note our desire to keep the meetings to a maximum of 1-hour in length.

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Meeting Tuesday, April 26th, International Network of Sortition Advocates

Posted on April 15, 2022 by richwbrown

The International Network of Sortition Advocates (INSA) will have its next meeting Tuesday, April 26, 2022 at 19:00 GMT [20:00 Europe, 21:00 Israel, 14:00 EST (2:00 PM), 6:00 AEDT].

Google Meets Link: https://meet.google.com/qvw-npcr-gaw

Agenda Items Include:

Report about Discord channels
How we should use Google Workspace
Discussion of Overall Strategy
Announcement of our platform

*Please note our desire to keep the meetings to 1-hour in length.

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Meeting March 24th – International Network of Sortition Advocates

Posted on March 11, 2022 by richwbrown

The International Network of Sortition Advocates (INSA) will have its next meeting Thursday, March 24, 2022 at 19:00 GMT [20:00 Europe, 21:00 Israel, 14:00 EST (2:00 PM), 6:00 AEDT].

Google Meets Link: meet.google.com/xek-kpwx-ofr

Agenda items include:

Update on Google Works account
Configuring Discord app
Regular dates and times for monthly meetings
Shared management and facilitation of the INSA project
Ideas for future projects

*Please note our desire to keep the meetings to 1-hour in length.

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Meeting February 24th – International Network of Sortition Advocates (INSA)

Posted on February 10, 2022 by richwbrown

The International Network of Sortition Advocates (INSA) will have its next meeting Thursday, February 24, 2022 at 19:00 GMT [20:00 Europe, 21:00 Israel, 14:00 EST (2:00 PM), 6:00 AEDT].

Google Meets Link: meet.google.com/oiu-wfxi-vdy.

To make our time together more productive and to limit the amount of work done outside of meetings, there will be a new format for our regular monthly meetings. Beginning this month, instead of a meeting primarily to discuss issues and then dividing up work to complete on our own time, we will use the hour together to actually complete the work that needs to be done. We’re hoping that this new format, requiring only an hour a month commitment, will attract greater numbers of interested people. Future agendas will be set by meeting participants.

Meeting Agenda – February 24, 2022 – Research and select an online platform to facilitate an exchange of information and ideas.

Please let us know if you plan to attend. We welcome your active participation and look forward to seeing you at the February 24th meeting! For more information contact:

Benny Nissen at benny@sortition.dk or Rich Brown at rbrowncmt@yahoo.com

Our Mission: To advocate for the use of Sortition, across the globe, as a better way to make political decisions by:

Creating an international collaborative platform for groups advocating for the use of sortition to share successes, resources, and inspiration to impel a shared global narrative.
Helping to establish and nurture groups to further spread the word about sortition in their local and national context.

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