Walpole Talk on the State of Democracy in the United States - Tuesday, June 5, 7:30 PM at Walpole Library
Despite all of the extraordinary efforts of people’s movements since the founding of the United States of America, democracy is as fragile as ever. After decades of environmentalism the destruction of nature is accelerating, oil and resource wars are more dangerous than ever, and the gap between the world’s rich and poor is a deepening abyss.
Why do powerful wealthy interests and influential government officials, woefully outnumbered by the rest of us, always prevail in the end (with occasional relatively minor concessions)? What is it that we don’t know about changing the system, changing the culture, that we need to know in order to create a peaceful and livable world?
The Walpole Peace and Justice Group would like to invite you to come to hear Adam Sacks speak to these questions on June 5th at 7:30 pm at the Walpole Public Library. Adam is the director of the Center for Democracy and the Constitution. A non-profit located in Lexington, Mass. He is currently developing a think tank to explore how to change the current paradigm so that people around the world can survive the 21st century.
For the Walpole Peace and Justice Group
Paul Peckham
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